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Achieving Sustainable Energy for All Hinges on International Cooperation and Leadership
This year was designated the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the UN General Assembly to raise awareness and promote the three objectives: clean energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. 2012 is also the year of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, to be held in late June. The moment is ripe for action, and lofty goals have been set, but where to begin?
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World Can Have Power, Cleaner Stoves for $48 Billion Annually, IEA Says
The world’s entire population can have electricity and cleaner stoves by 2030 if $48 billion is invested each year, the International Energy Agency said in its first estimate of the cost to end energy poverty. The sum is about the same as the combined annual capital spend of Europe ’s two biggest oil companies, ...
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- Energy
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Greenway Smart Stove: A Cleaner Smarter Stove for 150 Million BoP Households
Newly minted MBA graduates in their mid-20’s, especially from top-tier business schools, are supposed to be working at a multi-national bank or maybe a Hindustan Lever, right? Not if you are Neha Juneja and Ankit Mathur who decided to take the less beaten path of social entrepreneurship by founding Greenway Grameen Infrastructure. Zeroing in on the stove Their journey started innocuously enough. A series of consulting gigs in the environment domain gave Neha a...
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Serving the Trillion Dollar BoP Energy Market
Not everyone wants to spend their weekend in a conference room discussing challenges like benchmarking low-cost solar home lighting systems, finding the right business model, and raising the seed capital. But for the 11 social entrepreneurs gathered with experts and the CSTS Clean Energy Sector team, there’s no place else we would have rather been.
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Acara Challenge 2010: Eight Social Business Ideas
From clean water delivery near Vellore to chromium recovery in the tanneries of Tamil Nadu to clean-gas cooked food tiffin services in Delhi, the finalist teams of the Acara Challenge 2010 have some great ideas to change the world.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise
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Voices From the Skoll World Forum Opening Plenary
The opening plenary at the Skoll World Forum had numerous themes and Twitter-perfect quotes, but to me one of the most important threads that ran through the evening was the importance of giving individuals a voice to help themselves out of conflict, abject poverty, and the effects of natural disaster.
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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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