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In lighting, the future lies with the LED. It consumes almost no power at all, and lasts practically forever. Compact fluorescent lamps are going to be obsolete very soon. In the USA, they’re coming soon; lights that last more than 20 years and use 90 per cent less electricity than even the ’new’ compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). They are called light emitting diodes (LEDs), and we already know about them; they are used for digital clocks and on car dashboards and blinker ...
Meet the new light bulb that lasts 20 years and uses one-tenth the powerNews
Ratan Tata and the Tata group have for months zealously kept a tight lid on the details of the Rs 1-lakh car that is slated to roll out of Tata Motors’ Singur factory in June 2008. But on Tuesday, the shroud came off in singular circumstances. It’s an eco-car with a 25 km-per-litre mileage on petrol, meets every international standard and specification, including Euro-4 norms. Acceleration wise, it’s the same as a Maruti 800. That’s exactly how RA Mashelkar...
Tata small car set to offer 25 kmpl mileageNews
By G. Chandrashekhar Thani Oruvanukku Unav(u)ilaienil, Jagattinai Azhithiduvom’ was the war cry against hunger the celebrated Tamil poet Mahakavi Subramaniya Bharathiar unleashed almost a century ago. Loosely translated, it means, Even if a single person goes without food, we shall destroy the world. One can well imagine the fervour the maverick poet-patriot brought to the subject of poverty and hunger. What has the world come to in the last m...
Investment in health, education, a mustNews
By Elizabeth Littlefield In the three decades since Muhammed Yunus gave his first $27 loans to women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, the microfinance industry has come a long way. What began as a collection of individual non-governmental organizations funded by development donors has become a professional business offering not just credit, but a full range of banking services to poor people. Hundreds of microfinance institutions have matured and become profitable. Local...
The Changing Face Of Microfinance FundingNews
I met Emily Stenning while we were both studying at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. From the moment I met her, she was constantly working on something: a committee, a foundation, a charity. To me, she is the epitome of the youth movement that we here at Living admire and believe is the future of global activism and philanthropy. Emily recently moved to India (after founding the Timau Children’s Foundation...
Is Micro Lending The Future Of Giving?News
WE STARTED out abroad as ?accidental tourists?,? says Anand Mahindra, managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian maker of tractors and off-road vehicles. Owed money by a Greek manufacturing plant, it took an equity stake instead, and so Mahindra Hellenic was born in 1984. Mahindra & Mahindra is now one of 100 companies from the developing world that Boston Consulting Group (BCG) thinks have the clout and ambition to upset the world’s multinationals. The cons...
They’re behind youNews
On November 29-30, 2007 the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Spanish Ministry of External Relations and Cooperation convened a high-level workshop titled, Policies and Innovations for Improving Access to Financial Services: A Global Challenge. The workshop drew a crowd of over 50 distinguished participants, including officials from indu...
How to Help the World’s Poor Get a Foot Inside the Bank DoorNews
On November 28, New Ventures M?xico celebrated the launch of its sponsorship phase of Las P?ginas Verdes , or The Green Pages, Mexico?s first directory of environmentally and socially sustainable products and services. Las P?ginas Verdes has quickly become recognized as Mexico?s most valuable green marketing tool because it brings together all sustainable alternatives ava...
New Ventures M?xico Launches Las P?ginas Verdes (“The Green Pages”)
