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...
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
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 diverse perspectives from experts in engineering for global development regarding...
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 garages. We asked our international network of experts in engineering...
Oil Spills Threaten Lives from North Dakota to Nigeria
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe was protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota for seven months in 2016. One of their grievances was the risk of a rupture in...
Our Most Popular Webinars of the Year, from Behavior Change ...
In a year that started with a webinar on Food Security and ended with Electronic Medical Records in Low-Resource Settings, we have seen presentations that were deeply informational and broad ranging. Experts shared their...
Low Carbon Transitions and the Tyranny of Scale
If you asked people involved in renewable energy and development (engineers, academics, business people or civil society) what the important barriers to rolling out renewable energy projects were, you’d...
Case study: How an offline CRM helps a biogas business expan...
Sistema Biobolsa began its operations developing and selling biogas systems in Latin America using organizational tools like spreadsheet software and note taking. But now the business has sold 3200...
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New open-source tools analyze sites for small hydropower generators
Micro-hydropower generators rely on the natural flow of a river or stream, unaided by reservoirs to regulate the water...
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Practical tips to distribute and scale your technology
The final module in E4C’s four-step course, Introduction to Engineering for Global Development An uncomfortable truth for product designers is that...
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The Manufacturing Conundrum: Local or Outsourced?
The eraser dust has settled, the tablet screen has dimmed, the foamcore models are tossed aside on the floor in...
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E4C investigates technologies that turn waste into energy
With the population on the rise, the world’s waste stream has become increasingly difficult to manage. But waste-to-energy schemes...
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A Hardware Entrepreneur in Delhi Turns Soot into Art with a Boost from E4C
The accolades mount for Arpit Dhupar, who has collected two awards in two months for his work developing soot scrubbers that...
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Five Questions with Shashi Buluswar and Subarna Mitra, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Two years ago, a small team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif. released an enormous volume...
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How the Internet of Things Is Improving Lives and Livelihoods in Developing Countries
Wirelessly connected sensors, actuators and other hardware have already changed global development work, and signs point to bigger changes...
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Hardware start-ups get an upgrade from cardboard cutouts to digital 3D modelling
Hardware startups go through dozens or even hundreds of design changes before a product hits a shelf. Making those...
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Gallery: Inside Burn’s Charcoal Stove Factory in Nairobi, Kenya
On a dirt road inside a gated business park outside of Nairobi, Kenya, a worker boxes and stacks BURN’s...
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Stages of Impact Investing for Engineer Entrepreneurs
Last year, my business partner and I entered the world of impact investment with the goal of raising funds...
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