2,000 Indian Villages Skip Fossil Fuels, Get First Electricity From Solar If you ever need a great example of technological leapfrogging in practice, here it is: In the Indian state of Orissa, the state government has decided to electrify approximately an additional 2,000 villages by March 2012. But rather than hook them up to coal-fired […]
My planet is diseased with abject poverty. The overt face being the beggars on the world’s streets, the endless urban slums of hovels circumventing the planet; made from waste materials like discarded plastic sheets, skins as these are called, of advertising hoardings; and the countless emaciated souls with sunken, hopeless eyes who populate the enormous […]
2010 Social Enterprise Summit 19 – 21 November, 2010 Hong Kong The Social Enterprise Summit 2010 aims to cultivate more in-depth and practical methodologies for Social Entrepreneurship by developing impact measurement and inculcating business capabilities, with a view to helping all stakeholders, including government and NGOs, to achieve their own objectives. It also hopes to […]
DHL extends relief efforts in Pakistan Bonn / Islamabad, September 15, 2010: In the wake of a continuing difficult situation caused by nationwide flooding, the Disaster Response Team (DRT) has been working in the military section of the Islamabad airport since August 26. To date, the DHL employees have unloaded and relief supplies like food, […]
