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  • Clean Energy Training & Solar Comes To Nepal UNESCO Heritage Site

    June 10, 2017 |

    Clean Technica |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Bharatpur, Chitwan District

    Grassroots organizations, Empowered by Light and Empower Generation, are killing two birds with one stone: bringing clean energy to rural Nepal, and creating jobs for Nepalese women in the environmental sector. By helping to install electricity-generating solar panels, which simultaneously prevents illegal animal poaching, women are provided not only with a stable income and a ladder to reliable economic growth, but also with a rich work-life balance, allowing them to become “clean energy entrepreneurs” while continuing to care for their families and tend to their village’s needs.

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  • Why Singapore housing wants Trash 2.0

    June 09, 2017 |

    GovInsider |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    By creating pneumatic refuse systems, Singapore is hoping to reduce both the man power necessary for waste collection as well as the environmental impacts of open systems.

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  • Access to clean water improves health in rural Tanzania

    June 08, 2017 |

    Anglican Journal |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Ndomoni, Lindi Region

    In rural villages like Ndomoni, access to water is paramount to community development, and locals are the first to recognize that other issues such as maternal health cannot be addressed until there is clean drinking water. The installation of a central borehole well is not only providing the village access to water, is has freed up the many hours a day women and girls spent fetching water from other distant sources, allowing them to stay in school, attend to the health of the family, and pursue other business.

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  • The 'moss wall' that helps cities breathe

    June 07, 2017 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Air pollution is a major health risk, and growing in severity as more of the population moves to urban (more polluted) areas. Several university friends from Germany developed a "CityTree," which filters toxic pollutants from the air with moss that can be installed around cities.

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  • If You See Dirty Water, Don't Just Gripe. Talk To The Cloud!

    June 07, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Scientists and activists in India are training citizens to collect information on water issues like contamination — and upload it so it can be used to push for change.

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  • How an IIT Madras Initiative Is Powering 9,000 Homes at a Fraction of Traditional Electricity Costs

    June 07, 2017 |

    The Better India |

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    Response Location: India, Jaipur, Rajasthan

    A team of engineers at IIT Madras, a public university in India, has partnered with local utilities and the national Ministry of Power to bring sustainable, low-cost electricity to off-grid rural villages in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. With solar power supplied by DC microgrids, these poor rural communities are experiencing transformations to increase quality-of-life: affordable fridges that aid in food preservation, fans which mitigate heat and repel mosquitoes, and battery-powered phones connecting them to public emergency services.

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  • Food: Farming for the Future

    June 06, 2017 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    As climate change continues to advance, its impact on farmlands has become more pronounced and increasingly devastating. Farmers and researchers in both South Africa and Nepal are working towards solutions to problems specifically related to climate change. Centered on developing technology, these farmers have found success with NASA satellite imagery as well as local clinics.

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  • 311: From a Hotline to a Platform for Citizen Engagement

    June 01, 2017 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    Boston's 311 mobile application, launch in 2009, exemplifies the new customer service-oriented era of the citizen service, which allows users to request services, take photos of potholes, and offer data to city planners. Neighboring Somerville, Massachusetts has a successful 311 app of its own, where an analytics team crunches the wealth of data generated by the app service. But Kansas City, Missouri's 311 services are even more developed, and citizens can access the city via the app, clal-in, Twitter, and social media.

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  • The Future of CRM and Customer Service: Look to Boston

    June 01, 2017 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    To better serve the Boston community, the city launched a mobile app to address gaps in traditional 311 hotline calls. Now, "nearly 60 percent of service requests come via digital channels" and city officials are better able to "track the city’s performance against a benchmark service-level agreement."

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  • Cloud 311 Popularity Grows as Cities of All Sizes Move to Remotely Hosted CRM

    June 01, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Traditional 311 operations can be costly to maintain, so the city of Sacramento implemented cloud CRM in order to cut costs and increase flexibility of operations. While there is still room to expand what is offered, this cloud-based solution does offer the "ability to set up and launch 311 quickly, without the need for IT staff to maintain the servers and networks."

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