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  • In Africa's Vanishing Forests, the Benefits of Bamboo

    March 13, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Asosa, Benishangul-Gumuz

    In Africa, many people rely on wood from trees to cook food over stoves. The tremendous usage of wood contributes to deforestation and environmental decline. Using bamboo instead of wood is a more profitable and greener solution.

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  • Prizes With an Eye Toward the Future

    February 29, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Agencies across the corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors are recruiting ideas from the public by offering prizes for solving challenges. Prize incentives have spurred innovation for centuries, but fell out of favor as the preferred method in the 1800s. Now, prize-based incentives are back, in part because of a flood of new philanthropic money, and because prizes cast a wider net to a largely more educated and tech-savvy global population.

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  • Innovations in Light

    February 02, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

    Solar lighting will revolutionize Africa - but access infrastructure is a difficult thing to build. Three different, innovative business models get lights into the hands of the people who need them most.

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  • To Maintain Water Pumps, It Takes More Than a Village

    December 13, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma

    Water pumps often break and no one locally has the skill or parts to fix them. Two columns on Water Aid’s program in India to train women to be handpump mechanics.

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  • Everyone Speaks Text Message

    December 09, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Guinea

    “For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline.” Phones, the web, software systems, these are all technologies being employed to keep heritage languages alive.

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  • Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil

    December 08, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The United States can outsource certain kinds of "microwork," such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person’s, or one country’s gain, must be another’s loss.

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  • Lessons in Transit Innovation

    November 22, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Trenton, New Jersey

    Bus service for people who live outside major cities is either nonexistent or might as well be. But some communities are helping bring mobility to non-drivers with bus service they can really use. This article looks at a variety of places in which public transportation is highly popular and efficient—from Germany to Seattle.

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  • Biogas Offers Poor Countries a Cleaner, Safer Fuel

    October 25, 2011 |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    In developing countries, environmentally friendly and practicality don't always go hand-in-hand. Biogas are changing that. With biogas technology, methane is derived from the feces of humans and animals and is used in place of traditional fuel which improves sanitation across these regions and is a benefit for the environment.

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  • Bringing light to the poor, one liter at a time

    July 11, 2011 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Manila

    Lack of access to electricity is one of the most serious problems in the third world. Developed by students at MIT, a new way of bringing electricity to the poor involves water and bleach in a 'liter of light'.

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  • On Gay Rights, Moving Real-Life Friends to Action

    July 07, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The ability of social media and online civic participation to impact law and politics is still developing, but one social media tool - Friendfactor - was used successfully in New York to help bring about the passage of Gay Marriage Equality. It may be an indicator for how powerful platforms like this one will continue to play a role in societal growth and change.

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