EPC Takeaway: Kenya’s Digital Transformation Is Underway
A theme that emerged over the course of two days of keynotes and presentations at the Sixth Engineering Partnership Convention in Nairobi this month was that Kenya is...
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EPC Takeaway: Kenya’s Digital Transformation Is Underway
A theme that emerged over the course of two days of…
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From Peru to Kenya, These 10 Innovations Took…
AI-guided agriculture, biodegradable packaging, technical training for Peruvian women, and a…
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In the Wake of Disasters, Rural Health Could…
By Will Atwater North Carolina Health News When Hurricane Helene ripped…
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How Refugee Entrepreneurs Are Supplying Sustainable Energy to…
Refugees are providing energy within camps home to millions of displaced…
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Ten Tools for Surviving Rising Seas
Coastal communities worldwide are grappling with more frequent flooding, shoreline erosion,…
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What Are ‘Sponge Cities’ and How Can They…
A new AI-based study compares cities’ trees and lakes to how…
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Strengthening the Off-Grid Solar Repair Ecosystem
Some 75 percent of solar energy kits sold for off-grid use…
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Here’s How Low- and Middle-Income Countries Will Be…
Climate change is affecting communities around the world, threatening human health…
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Seven Startups Head to Hyderabad for ASME ISHOW…
Seven social ventures from throughout India will meet in Hyderabad April…
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Vinayak Nandalike’s Tips for Hardware Startups
For ISHOW updates and your invitation to participate, see: Seven Startups…
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Now in Beta: the Off-Grid Solar Resilience and…
Mainstreaming off-grid solar products could go a long toward preparing vulnerable…
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Development’s Power Shift
Nobody asked about the benefits of a looming global trade war,…
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Analysis: Social Entrepreneurs Should Diversify Funding Sources
Social entrepreneurs may be wondering where to look for money to…
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Waste into Wealth: ChemFinity’s Nano-Sponges Move Toward Commercialization
See the ChemFinity update in Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2025…
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Social Ventures Wanted: ASME ISHOW 2025 Calls for…
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is now accepting applications…
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One Step Closer to Seawater Batteries
Seawater batteries are not in stores, yet, but researchers have taken…
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Satellites Could Reshape Small-Scale Farming
Space tech may be the next frontier for global food…
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Cycleau Recycles Water Affordably Anywhere, From Baltimore to…
Cycleau is one of the Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2025.…
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The Race to Zero: How Buildings Can Slash…
The buildings we live and work in are quietly shaping the…
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Nature Inspires Industrial Optimization
Middle-school science teachers often display posters of the food web—the matrix…
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Virridy Lume Tests Drinking Water for E. coli
Read more in the Promising Prototypes of 2025 The presence of…
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How to Pivot from a US Career in…
“My belief is that as a people, as a group, as…
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The People’s Choice: Promising Prototypes to Watch This…
Read More: Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2025 Each year we…
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A Prototype for a Portable Emergency Cash Dispenser
Read More: Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2025 Note: CASH is…
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Promising Prototypes to Watch in 2025
Read More | The People’s Choice: Promising Prototypes to Watch This…
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Next Steps Following USAID’s Funding Freeze
Thousands of contractors are laid off in the United States and…
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How Cities are Reinventing the Public-Private Partnership −…
Cities tackle a vast array of responsibilities – from building transit…
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Sustainable Manufacturing Needs Simulation
To Pepi Maksimovic, director of application engineering at Ansys, the engineering…
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Renewable Energy Is Gaining Ground Worldwide
There may be good news on the climate front, although it…
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Building with Earth Could Transform Sustainable Construction – Here’s How
Imagine you are standing in front of a multimillion-pound building in…
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How Africa Can Build Systems to Share Local Climate…
African countries collectively have emitted very little of the greenhouse gases…
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Low- and Middle-Income Countries May Triple Their Nuclear…
Nuclear Power Ghana reached an agreement to deploy a small modular…
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Research Brief: Agrivoltaics Harvest the Sun Twice
Researchers have known that some crops fare better than others under…
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The COP29 Takeaways
The 29th session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) took…
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Nâ‚‚O Is on the Rise, Here’s How to…
Nitrous oxide (Nâ‚‚O) is a greenhouse gas 270 times more potent…
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How Remote Sensing Has Transformed Hydrology
Orbiting satellites with sensors trained on the Earth have transformed hydrology.…
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Vertical Farming: A Practical Approach to Modernizing Farms…
Traditional farming in Africa has not been able to provide food…
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Thought Leaders React to the Pact for the…
World leaders and thought leaders have had time to sit with…
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This Is What Collaboration with E4C Looks Like:…
When a startup developing a high-altitude balloon for Earth observations sought…
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Battery Swapping Is Cutting the Cost of India’s…
Creative services for electric vehicles are transforming India into a hub…
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