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Twitter Top 10: 4-12-15
New resources. New partnerships. Even a cool new toilet. This week’s Twitter Top 10 is full of fascinating ideas and useful info, and you can help us get a head start on next week’s list. If you see anything interesting in the Twitterverse, you’re welcome to tweet it to our editors.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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Wells Fargo Selects Clean Technology Startups for Innovation
$10 million program to help four winning companies develop energy-efficient smart glass, cooling, battery and smart metering technologies.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Technology
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Addition By Replication: SELCO’s ‘knowledge bank’ seeking cases in scale from inside and outside the energy sector
Time and again SELCO India has encountered this question: How will it scale? This is why the solar power firm is building a knowledge bank comprised of case stories capturing methodologies, systems, processes, techniques, tactics or approaches for replication.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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The Future of Mobile Money: Building Seamless Financing Options Through Clean Energy
Clean energy in developing economies rests with a seamless, ubiquitous, easy-to-use financing platform based on energy and mobile money. Wireless credit is a very important piece of that platform.
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- Energy
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Sunlabob Renewable Energy Receives $2.1 Million Investment
Sunlabob Renewable Energy, a Laos-based group that specializes in bringing clean energy solutions to rural communities, has this week secured an impact investment of $2.1 million to enable it to expand its off-grid programs in Asia, Africa and the Pacific region.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Refining the Business Case for Off-Grid Energy in India: Illuminating the models with the greatest potential
Many entrepreneurs and investors have started trying to capitalize on the market opportunity for off-grid electricity in India, but so far, very few have reached meaningful scale. “The Business Case for Off-Grid Energy in India,” a new report by Dalberg on behalf of the Climate Group, highlights the business models with the greatest potential.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Muhammad Yunus joins global public awareness campaign for solar
Visionary social entrepreneur and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has joined the world's first global public awareness campaign for solar, SolarFUTURE.today.
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- Energy
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Press Release: Solar Expert Joins Microfinance Leader FINCA International’s Board of Directors
FINCA International, a leading microfinance organization based inWashington, D.C., is pleased to welcome Dr. Fred Seymour, a solar energy expert, to its Board of Directors. A pioneer of microfinance, FINCA is actively exploring the development of additional social enterprises that can deliver nonfinancial products and services, starting with solar energy.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship
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