Engineers Are Not Ending Poverty. Time for a Change?
Engineers have designed and deployed appropriate technologies that solve the problems of global poverty, but poverty persists. The abundance...
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Impact.Engineered Made Tough Decisions in Tech and Social Impact Awards
Imagine trying to choose the winners of social impact and technological ingenuity awards from among multinational conglomerates with social...
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50 Breakthroughs Set the Agenda for Research into Global Development Technology
Fifty years after the term “intermediate technology” came to describe a nascent category of engineering and design, the field...
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Evaluating Household Energy Resources in Rural Kenya
Communities in rural Kenya are still heavily dependent on wood fuel and other biomass for their basic energy needs....
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We Have the Blueprint for Liveable, Low-Carbon Cities. We Just Need to Use It
Over the past seven years more than 100 research projects at the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living,...
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Reflections on a Review of Studies on the Physical and Emotional Toll of Carrying Water
Growing up in India, I was fortunate enough to have a piped supply of municipal water in my home....
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Engineering Gives Me a Chance to Make the World Better
Editor’s note: This profile of an engineer is a contribution to Engineering for Change courtesy of the international infrastructure...
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As More Developing Countries Reject Plastic Waste Exports, Wealthy Nations Seek Solutions at Home
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are...
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Solutions for Resilience and Peace Building Across the World
About 90 percent of USAID’s water priority countries are conflict-affected or fragile. In 2018, over 60 million people around the world...
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Solutions to Keep Food on the Table in a Changing Climate
The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is...
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