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3D imaging could cut health care costs
Upstate company Qmetrics has developed technology that can take medical images like MRIs and turn them into a three-dimensional image or model.
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Slow Ideas
Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t?
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Brazil’s eco-tourists keep social enterprises successful and sustainable
The three–part series closes with an investigation into Brazilian ecotourism and social entreprise success by Iguazu Falls.
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Goizueta MBAs Help Fix the Bolivian Recycling Business
On Aug. 3, seven MBA students from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School will travel to Bolivia as part of a project designed to put their skills to work solving a waste problem in the nation’s capital in Santa Cruz. The students will help determine the feasibility of building a more efficient recycling plant and creating jobs in the process.
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Developing world may overtake West in green energy stakes
A ‘geographic shift’ in renewable investment is under way, with the east and south taking the lead.
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Dirty Business
Singaporean Jack Sim wants nobody to be embarrassed by toilets as he seeks to clean up sanitation throughout the developing world.
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Corporations and the fight against hunger: why CSR won’t do
There is an opportunity for the private sector to lead in tackling chronic malnutrition, but seeing it as corporate social responsibility or charity is damaging.
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Under the weather? Climate change effect on public health getting new emphasis
Global warming often seems distant and abstract, especially things like shrinking sea ice. But a turbulent climate also poses lots of relatable risks to human health, from allergies and asthma to algae blooms and animal-borne diseases. And according to George Luber, chief of climate research at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these are the risks that need public attention - even if it means less publicity for polar bears.
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