Biomining the Elements of the Future
Biomining is the kind of technique promised by science fiction: a vast tank filled with microorganisms that leach metal...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Energy
When the sun goes down, the day ends. No work after dark, no studying. That’s the reality for one quarter of the world’s population that lives without electricity. Inventive design and the falling cost of solar power is lighting up homes that the traditional energy grid has left dark. Power solutions that can scale are filling in the grid gaps with solar, hydro, wind and biogas. With alternative energy solutions, the world is lighting up.
Interest: Energy
Made in Guatemala: Clean Water and Nutrition Technology in C...
Guatemala is a Central American country with great opportunities to innovate. Despite immense natural resources such as rivers, lakes, and mountains, a great portion of the population lack access...
Empowering the powerless: Lets end energy poverty
“Power to the people,” the activists chanted in the 1960s. The revolutionaries of yesteryear never dreamed of the scientific and technological innovations that could light up distant shelters and...
From Electrification to Empowerment: Building a Utility-Grad...
On the wall of the Sigora Haiti field operations center in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti, the company’s 50+ local employees have painted the new rallying cry of the 21st...
Can Community-Scale Solar Become the Model T of Clean Energy...
Every single solar project, big or small, gets assembled one at a time on a roof or in a field. But what if you could pre-manufacture solar projects in...
What Is Impeding the Growth of Improved Cookstove Companies?...
Billions of people around the globe use solid biomass to fuel their daily cooking needs. Most traditional cooking practices, such as three stone fires, produce hazardous emissions that damage...
The Solution Is in Biology: A Startup Takes Biogas to the Ki...
What if I tell you that, each time you pay for power at your home or for the gas in your car, you are submitting to your dependence on...
The Work Underway Now to Solve Refugee Crises Through Climate Change Action
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman draws a line that he sees from a changing climate to drought...
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Latin American Kitchens Clear the Air with Stoves Adapted from African Designs
Stove design flourishes where the needs of a culture butt against constraints of the environment, financial resources and distribution...
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ISO Standards for Clean Cookstoves Update
Diversity in clean cookstove design has climbed sharply as startups, mom and pops, multinationals and even students try to...
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A Visual Inspection Guide to Detect Faulty Solar Products
Stores in Malawi and likely other developing countries carry defective and even fraudulent solar photovoltaic panels. In places where...
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Tackling Indoor Air Pollution in Northern Cambodia with Improved Cookstove Technology
Traditional cooking practices in the developing world contribute to poor health, environmental degradation, and poverty. Today, about three billion...
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A Toolkit to Identify Sustainable, Market-Based Energy Solutions in Off-Grid Areas
A new package of data-collection and decision-making tools helps communities with poor energy access make informed decisions about how...
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Packable solar picnic grills subsidize sales in underserved communities
The history of solar cooking as we know it reaches deep into the 1950s, but solar ovens remain a...
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As Costs Fall, Designers Take a New Look at Solar Irrigation
Ten years ago, off-grid solar power wasn’t even a blip on the radar. Thanks to significant advancements in solar...
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For-Profit or Non-Profit… Is There a Third Way?
Why member-owned co-ops are the best kept secret in humanitarian development In publications like E4C, practitioners are exposed to...
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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2017
Prototypes are pushing the field of global development technology forward as they evolve in workshops, universities, laboratories and even...
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