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The Peruvian village of Compone lies 11,000 ft. above sea level in El Valle Sagrado de los Incas, the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Flat but ringed by mountains, the tallest capped year-round in snow and ice, the valley is graced with a mild climate and mineral-rich soil that for centuries has produced what the Incas called sara-corn. The farmers of Compone feed corn to their livestock, grind it into meal, boil it for breakfast, lunch and dinner and stockpile it as ins...
MIT’s Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a DayBlog Post
If there was ever a good summer to be in Spain, 2008 was it. Not only because of the great celebrations that surely followed Torres’ match-winning goal last Sunday, but also because of the remarkable Expo Zaragoza 08. Titled “Water and Sustainable Development", the Expo will...
Roundup: Expo Zaragoza ’08 and Other Reasons to Join the Water ConversationBlog Post
A spate of blogworthy mainstream media articles have come out recently, prompting this base of the pyramid news roundup: Over the weekend, the Financial Times ran two pieces side by side.? The first, entitled ’Investing in People’ by journalist Sarah Murray, smartly discusses the...
News Roundup: Investments in People, Philanthrocapitalism and the SSIRNews
By Paul Hudnut OUT OF POVERTY: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail Paul Polak 240 pages (Berrett-Koehler, 2008) Until now, the social enterprise bookshelf contained mostly two types of books?studies of what works, and studies of what?s broken. David Bornstein?s How to Change the World, which chronicles the inspiring work of Ashoka Fellows, best represents the first type. The writings of Jeffrey Sachs, Hernando De Soto, and William Eas...
Review: Out of PovertyBlog Post
Guest blogger Paul Hudnut is an entrepreneur, advisor and teacher. He helped start EnviroFit International, and teaches at Colorado State University. Hudnut writes a blog, What’s a BOPreneur?, where this post first appeared. By Paul Hudnut Allen Hammond recently hosted a blog...
Guest Post: Radical, Transformative, Unreasonable, Extreme, Leap Frog, Super-Bad Social EntrepreneurBlog Post
Guest blogger Ryan Gunderson writes about sustainable, scalable solutions to end global poverty on his Riches For Good blog. A finance professional with an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and seven years of Fortune 500 experience, Ryan is transitioning to...
Guest Post: Show Me the IncomeBlog Post
I like late March. Here in New York - and in Washington, where I used to live - late March is when spring starts to take hold, bringing longer, warmer days. It’s also when the annual Skoll World Forum takes place, bringing a breath of fresh air to cloudy, rainy England (apologies for the...
2008 Skoll World Forum PreviewNews
Most books about poverty are downright depressing. The figures?1 billion people live on less than $1 a day, according to the U.N. Development Program?are depressing. The complexity of the problem?poverty is connected to poor health is connected to lack of clean drinking water is connected to lack of education?is daunting. And spend any time at, say, the Web site of the World Bank, the organization that’s Working for a World Free of Poverty, according to its tagline, and you st...
Giving the Poor a Means to Work
