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Sustainable Cooking Stoves
Energy poverty in the developing world is a complex and ongoing problem with serious impacts on health, economic growth, and the overall environment.? The impact on the poor is particularly felt in their day to day needs for cooking fuel ? much of it coming from either oil or gas - or from...
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Social Entrepreneurs Develop Cleaner Alternative to African Wood-Burning Stoves
On his first trip to Ghana in September 2006, Mark Henderson traveled through countryside that was lush, but obscured with haze. The haze was the first thing Henderson saw when his plane landed in Accra, the most populous city in this West African country on the Gulf of Guinea. I could see the smoke permeating everything, Henderson said. Villagers told me this smoke is suffocating and toxic. Some of the haze was carried in by the Harmattan -- a d...
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MIT Legatum Center Announces Inaugural class of Legatum Fellows
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT announced May 20 that it has selected its first class of Legatum Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year. The Legatum Fellowships bring extraordinary men and women to MIT to pursue enterprise solutions to some of the most difficult challenges facing low-income countries, noted Iqbal Z. Quadir, director of the center. By empowering entrepreneurs, the business plans created by Legatum Fellows will serve to ...
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Life at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Are Environmental Technologies the Way Out?
VANCOUVER, August 1, 2007 (GLOBE-Net) ? Roughly four billion people, mostly in developing countries, subsist at the bottom of the economic and social pyramid. Here they are vulnerable not only to the risks associated with poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, but also to a host of environmental threats including poor air quality, contaminated water and climate change. Even though they live on less than US $2 per day, these people represent a huge potential market. Linking their entrepreneu...
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The Business Case for Clean Cooking
Every year, smoke from traditional stoves fueled by wood is responsible for 1.5 million deaths. Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia are particularly affected. Now a new report from the World Health Organization makes the business case for investing in cleaner household fuels. The report...
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