Tag: Poverty
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If the world's population was 100 people [Infographic]
Graphic designer Jack Hagley's new infographic shows the world's population as 100 people.
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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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Small Charity Beats Oil Giant, Becomes Largest Seller of Solar Lights in Africa
They make unlikely competitors, but a small UK-based charity just overtook a French oil giant as the largest seller of portable solar lights in Africa. We should be grateful that both are on the case.
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A Visit to the World's Only City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp
Dignity Village in Portland, Oregon, is not your typical municipal solution to homelessness. It just might be better.
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In Power and Water Outages, the World Comes to Lower Manhattan
Let's just remember that when we start talking about the divide between the City of Darkness and the rest of Manhattan which still has electricity that we will be in these conditions for a few days. It is a lifetime for many people.
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A Tent City in Texas Gets the Power of Solar Light
Solar lighting has long been heralded as a game changer for development projects abroad. Now one charity is deploying it in the tent cities of the USA.
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How Solar Light Saves Lives
Brave Mhonie, the Malawian field coordinator for Solar Aid, knows first hand the dangers of inadequate and unsafe lighting. Here he explains why solar is a life saver.
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Bangladesh's Leather Pollutes Environment, Harms Workers & Government Looks Away (Video)
A new Human Rights Watch report shows the horrific conditions, both environmental and social, that 90% of Bangladesh's leather is produced in—and exported from, to the US, China, Italy and elsewhere.
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Wired Magazine Tells Us "Don't Worry, Be Happy" About Climate, Population, Resources, Pandemics
Matt Ridley might be right about the world not ending on December 21 this year. But the rest of the article is delusional.
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The Buy-One-Give-One Business Model Must Get Smarter
The TOMS Shoes model of business is attracting criticism as well as praise. The trick is not to abandon it, but to evolve it.
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3 Steps to Protecting Food Stamps From a Cruel Congress
As expected, the House version of the 2012 farm bill contains deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. With its $16 billion proposed cut in this critical safety net, the House leadership is about three times as cruel as the Senate.
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How The Grassroots Rocket Stove Movement Continues to Push Efficient Cooking
Big bucks are pouring in to high-tech, mass produced cook stoves for the developing world. But grassroots activists insist that a lower tech, open source model is still relevant.
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World Hunger Is About Politics, Power & Rights More Than Crop Yields & Biotech
Next time someone tries telling you that without using such and such genetically engineered biotech crop we won't be able to solve world hunger, just quote them some Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
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Farm Bill Jackpot - How Much Do Corporations Benefit from SNAP?
As Congress proposes cuts to hungry families, a new report raises questions about how much food makers, retailers, and big banks profit from food stamps.
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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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Redefining Security for the 21st Century
The 21st century needs a redefinition of security, to something broader than military terms, a relic of the Cold War.
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How Solar is Giving African Kids Super Powers
Cheap LED lanterns are transforming lives in Africa, allowing communities to leapfrog 20th Century technology and enter the solar age.
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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.
