Center for Health Market Innovations: A Knowledge Database for BoP Markets
Posted by admin in FullContent on 27. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
by Maria Belenky
In the outskirts of New Delhi, a small, locally owned shop offers a solution to patients who need convenient and affordable tuberculosis treatment. Behind colorful packages of snacks, toothbrushes, and other products, there are shelves of medicine-color-coded and dated to indicate dosage and start of treatment-and a jug of water with paper cups. [...]
Bogus Statements, PAYD, and Maps
Posted by admin in FullContent on 27. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:
2009
The Top 10 Bogus Statements (BS) in the US Climate Debate
In the spirit of improving the quality of the debate and with unapologetic imitation of another political satirist on night-time TV, Bill Becker offers up today’s Top 10 Bogus Statements (B.S.) in the climate debate, [...]
The Aerogenerator: Proposed 10MW Machine Joins Race to Build Gargantuan Offshore Wind Turbines
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British designers are developing a new type of offshore wind turbine that rotates on its axis, mimicking the spiral of a sycamore seed, and that stretches nearly 900 feet (275 meters) from tip to tip. The so-called Aerogenerator has two enormous arms that extend from the base of the structure in a V-formation, each equipped [...]
A Proposed Geoethics
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Looking back five years ago today on Worldchanging:
2005
Terraforming Earth, Part III: Geoethical Principles
Jamais Cascio proposes a definition of geoethics as well as its core principles….
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A Proposed Geoethics
Posted by admin in FullContent on 26. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Looking back five years ago today on Worldchanging:
2005
Terraforming Earth, Part III: Geoethical Principles
Jamais Cascio proposes a definition of geoethics as well as its core principles….
Other recent “look backs”:
July 21
July 22
July 23
Help us change the world - DONATE NOW!
(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Imagining the Future at 10:00 AM)
Cool Synergy: Water Warmed from Cooling New Data Center to Heat Helsinki Homes
Posted by admin in FullContent on 23. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
by Justin Vela
The Uspensky Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. Water used to cool a data center in the bomb shelter of the cathedral will go on to heat 500 homes. (Image via Flickr/hansco)
A mini revolution in eco-friendly computing is taking place in the depths of the 19th-century Orthodox Uspenski Cathedral in downtown Helsinki, Finland.
The Finnish IT [...]
TRY Women’s Oyster Harvesting Association and Ba Nafaa: Reviving Gambia’s Degraded Fisheries
Posted by admin in FullContent on 23. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
by Christi Zaleski
A group of women stands alongside the roads leaving Gambia’s capital city of Banjul, offering up oysters for 15 dalasis a cup, or about 55 cents for approximately 75 pieces of oyster meat. These women have been harvesting oysters from the extensive mangrove wetlands of Gambia for decades. Much of the harvesting is [...]
The Next US Climate Strategy: Celebrate the EPA
Posted by admin in FullContent on 23. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
I have a few thoughts about what’s next for climate action in the U.S.
In the wake of yesterday’s devastating announcement that the U.S. Senate will not be advancing a climate bill, of any kind, there’s been a crash of morale across the spectrum of American environmentalists, climate advocates and bright green business types. And, yes, [...]
Retail, Roads, and a Rope Pump
Posted by admin in FullContent on 23. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging:
2009
Bright Green Retail
Alex Steffen explores some of the main components of a better and emerging model of shopping, wherein innovative companies are changing not only their stores, but how the whole experience of shopping works and what it means…
2008
Do Gas Taxes Cover the Costs of [...]
London’s Cycle Superhighways: Hopes for the Future of the New Blue Network
Posted by admin in FullContent on 22. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
I’ve had to be in London four or five times over these past few years. Whenever I’ve seen cyclists there slogging through traffic under leaden skies they’ve always looked like a valiant but bedraggled endangered species. Something fighting to stay alive in a hostile environment. That may be changing.
On Monday London launched two new “cycle [...]
