Tag: Developing Nations
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Clothing firms Joe Fresh and Primark to compensate victims of Bangladesh building collapse
Good for the Westons, owners of both, for doing the right thing by admitting their use of the factory and their willingness to help out.
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Affordable ceramic purifier uses nanoparticles to clean water
Using ceramics and metal nanoparticles, a non-profit organization from University of Virginia is making these simple but effective purifiers that can eliminate up to 99.9% of waterborne pathogens.
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How the Rural Poor Are Becoming a Market for Solar Power
A new generation of succesful for-profit, mission-driven businesses are serving energy-hungry communities across the globe.
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Soccket Soccer Ball Generates Power from Play
Just 30 minutes of play time can power a lamp for three hours.
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Solar-Powered Lamp Also Charges Your Phone, Acts as Sound Amplifier
A new solar-power kit from BRIGHT Products is like the Swiss Army Knife of solar gadgets.
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Should Billionaires Be Forced to Pay a 1% Tax for International Development?
A new UN report says that a 1% tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.
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Rio+20 Final Draft Text Recognizes Our Problem, Proposes Scant Few Concrete Solutions
There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.
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How Land Rights Are Turning the World's Rural Poor Into Unexpected Conservationists
It is as counterintuitive as it is true: Around the world, communities who have resided on the land the longest often have the most tenuous rights to that land.
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Developed-Developing Nation Split on Climate Obligations Needs Reevaluation
We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.
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How We Can End Energy Poverty & Bring Sustainable Energy to All
Access to reliably electricity is what defines civilization in the 21st century, but in many parts of the world, and for a shockingly large number of people, even basic access to electricity is rare, unstable, or nonexistent. This has to change.
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Help End Energy Poverty, Take the Power the World Pledge
Power the World has already brought solar lights to Haiti, now it's working to bring solar powered healthcare kits to Uganda + get a million signatures so that policymakers know we care about ending energy poverty.
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Want an Example of How to End Energy Poverty? Replace Old Inefficient Biomass Cooking Stoves
When 25,000 more efficient cook stoves were distributed in Peru by UNDP and the national government, 41,000 tons of CO2 were eliminated and the lives of women and girls improved.
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How Happy Is Bhutan, Really? Gross National Happiness Unpacked
Gross National Happiness has lots of cache in the environmental and social justice community, but how is Bhutan actually calculating it and how well are they doing?
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Peru: The Only Nation in the World Hitting the Sustainability Sweet Spot
Peru is the only nation both meeting the UNDP definition of high human development while at the same time consuming natural resources in a globally sustainable way.
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How U.S. Food Aid Can Reach 17.1 Million More People At No Extra Cost to Taxpayers
What if the U.S. spent the same amount of money on food aid, but made it more efficient by doing things like sourcing food locally?
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World Water Forum: Fight Against Privatization Continues & UN Says to Value Ecosystems, Not Just Agriculture
"A narrow definition of 'water productivity' considers only the value of agricultural produce, but doesn't put a price on lost drinking water, reduced fish populations, parched pastures, or shrinking groundwater reservoirs."
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Happy International Women's Day: 12 Innovations Helping Both Women and the Planet
Innovations that are improving women's incomes or access to credit, helping women feed their children and families, introducing sustainable crops and facilitating links with markets.
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DIY Affordable Wheelchairs Made From Reused Plastic Chairs in Rwanda
This is how you can make affordable wheelchairs reusing plastic chairs. The user is there during the making of it to make sure he knows how to repair his or her chairs.
