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2012-07-18 18:13:16     Empowering Technology: Mobile Phone Access Reaches Three Quarters Of Planet’s Population

http://www.dailymarkets.com/...arters-of-planets-population/

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

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2017-02-02 15:37:54     MacKay | Serendipity

http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?s=MacKay

We started from the question of how to take “back of t... calculations and make them explicitly shareable over the... shareable, but to turn them into structured objects that... updated, linked to evidence and so on (in much the same ... entries are

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2015-04-11 12:00:55     Renewable energy: Not a toy | The Economist

http://www.economist.com/...-even-subsidies-fall-not-toy?...

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2014-06-12 12:34:11     Hip Gadgets For The Developing World Won't Solve Global Poverty: Stop Making Them | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

http://www.fastcoexist.com/...lobal-poverty-stop-making-them

Many entrepreneurs (incorrectly) think the biggest chall... making the product. They are so pleased they have invent... more efficient or lower cost or fancier than the other w... market. Since there are 1 bazillion people whose life wo...
Wrong! Actu

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2014-06-24 18:26:16     The Good Country Index

http://www.goodcountry.org/

The idea of the Good Country Index is pretty simple: to ... country on earth contributes to the common good of human... takes away. Using a wide range of data from the U.N. and... international organisations, we’ve given each country ... show at a g

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2013-12-14 10:27:58     U.K. National Grid status

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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2015-08-17 19:54:51     U.K. National Grid status

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

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2011-09-12 11:26:44     Arctic sea ice is melting at its fastest pace in almost 40 years | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...tic-ice-melting-at-fastest-pace

This year, both the North-west and North-east passages w...
Last month, the 74,000-tonne STI Heritage tanker passed ...
The north-east sea route, which links the Atlantic to th ...
Further evidence of dramatic change in the Arctic came l ...
... ear (20

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2011-09-12 11:21:55     Copenhagen's novel problem: too many cyclists | Amelia Hill | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/e.../copenhagen-cycling-congestion

Local cycling federation and tourist organisation warn t... in the Danish capital can make riding intimidating

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2010-11-10 07:11:10     iFixit: The free repair manual

http://www.ifixit.com/

Fixing the world, one piece of hardware at a time.
Free Repair Manuals We make it easy for you to fix thing ...
Fix the Planet Repair is recycling! The best way to keep ...
Help us teach repair What if everyone had access to a fr ...
We sell parts We fund

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2016-02-22 19:14:12     Global warming: Data centres to consume three times as much energy in next decade, experts warn | Environment | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...e-experts-warn-a6830086.html

416.2 terawatt hours of electricity world’s data centr... was far higher than UK’s total consumption

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2009-07-16 17:15:51     Inhabitat » SOLAR POWERED GLASS

http://www.inhabitat.com/2005/10/11/solar-powered-glass/

Inhabitat
October 11, 2005
SOLAR POWERED GLASS
by Jill Fehrenbacher
... c freedom in which to create energy efficient buildings.

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2013-03-14 07:25:44     #Climatefairness: the triple injustice facing low-income households | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

http://www.jrf.org.uk/bl.../climatefairness-triple-injustice

In a new report, Simon Roberts outlines why poor househo...
The poorest fifth of the population have already signifi ...
So why is it they are carrying more of the burden of cut ...
Based on detailed analysis of the Government's own figur ...
So lower in

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2010-11-05 08:16:21     Kiva - About Kiva

http://www.kiva.org/about

Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, fo...
Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur acr ...
Pendo Luisi, 27 years old, borrowed $175 to open a cafe ...
Kiva was born of the following beliefs:
... r 2009, Kiva has facilitated

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2013-03-19 21:48:32     Konekta

http://www.konektaz.info/about/#aboutus

Konekta is an open development initiative focused on the... community web services that meet social needs. The proje... Development Goals and the objectives of Primary Health C...
The Konekta project is rooted in experience gained from ...
We're inter

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2012-02-17 13:12:58     Mastodon C

http://www.mastodonc.com/

Follow the moon
Mastodon will select the most efficient and sustainable ...
Sustainable, but cheap
We calculate the best location live, based on your susta ...

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2014-10-03 13:52:16     Offline and falling behind: Barriers to Internet adoption | McKinsey & Company

http://www.mckinsey.com/...ind_barriers_to_internet_adoption

More than 60 percent of the world’s population remains... removing crucial deterrents to Internet adoption, little... more than 4 billion people may be left behind.

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2012-08-04 18:29:48     Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer' | NDTV.com

http://www.ndtv.com/...-the-world-s-cheapest-computer-251021

Test-driving the 'World's Cheapest Computer'
India's 'Aakash' project, a tablet billed as the cheapes ...
Euphoria over a cheap tablet with a 'Made in India' labe ...

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2012-07-19 14:53:10     Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s Innovation system - Nesta

http://www.nesta.org.uk/...ons_from_indias_innovation_system

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a...
Innovation

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2013-03-11 09:58:50     Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya - tech - 13 February 2013 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/...olar-wifi-to-rural-kenya.html

GAKAWA Senior Secondary School is located in Kenya's wes... Province, about 10 kilometres from Nanyuki town. It is n... live. There are no cash crops, no electricity, no phone ...
"For internet access we had to travel the 10 kilometres ...
Not for muc

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2013-12-18 14:29:42     Is There an Ecological Unconscious? - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/m.../31ecopsych-t.html?...

In Albrecht’s view, the residents of the Upper Hunter ... just from the strain of living in difficult conditions b... something more fundamental: a hitherto unrecognized psyc... condition. In a 2004 essay, he coined a term to describe it: “solastal

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2010-07-18 22:43:38     Novelties - Bye-Bye, Batteries - Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/business/18novel.html?...

MATT REYNOLDS, an assistant professor in the electrical ...
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Jochen Teizer
Using only radio waves for its electrical power, the Sma ...
... uipment to determine if the hat’s wearer is too close.

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2014-01-10 16:50:30     Free Permaculture Design Course - Regenerative Leadership Institute

http://www.permaculturedesigntraining.com/?cctidx=share-this

Natural building construction
Pattern observation and site analysis
Renewable energy and appropriate technology
Reading the land and natural cycles
... ...and much, much more!

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2014-01-10 16:32:10     Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World - Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/so.../4224763

Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor b... View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to... and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind t...
Frayne's device, which he calls a Windbelt, is a taut me ...
Frayne hope

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2010-09-16 15:13:37     Give Work - Our Mission | Samasource

http://www.samasource.org/about/

Samasource empowers over 850 marginalized people, from r... women in rural Pakistan, to receive life-changing work o... the Internet. In parallel, we enable socially responsibl... businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs in the US to c... economic de

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2010-11-17 11:19:23     Wind Power Q&as · News · Sustainable Development Commission

http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/news.php/8.../wind-power-qas

Wind power produces no harmful emissions of carbon dioxi... to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity ...

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2014-09-29 13:51:07     UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World

http://www.technologywater.com/...rganic-farming-only-way-to

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2013-10-12 17:22:31     Vinay Venkatraman: Technology crafts for the digitally underserved | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/...fts_for_the_digitally_underserved.html

Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the lates... local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech us... Vinay Venkatraman explains his work in "technology craft... mobile phone, a lunchbox and a flashlight can become a d...
Vinay Venka

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2013-01-29 07:49:58     Public Transportation ... for Your Car? - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/01/pu.../4452/

The Rapid Commute system, as he calls it, would enable l... commuters to hop aboard a train instead – while still ... personal vehicles with them. Drivers already similarly u... waterways. So why not deploy the same concept, Farooq fi...
A diagram o

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2014-02-18 16:41:27     The Great Green Wall Initiative | Global Environment Facility

http://www.thegef.org/gef/great-green-wall

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