How To Power 10 Million Off-Grid African Homes In 10 Years
Taking cues from the pay-as-you-go mobile phone market, Erica Mackey and Off.Grid:Electric are working to deliver clean, affordable energy to the world’s rural poor.
Change Generation
Meet The 14-Year-Old Girl Who Developed A Low-Cost Water Purification System
Deepika Kurup just won $25,000 for a device that uses the power of the sun to kill bacteria in water.
A $5 Light For The Developing World With An Ingenious Fuel: Gravity
The GravityLight gets power from the slow lowering of a weight. All it takes is enough elbow grease to hoist the bag, and you can light a room with nothing but a bag of sand.
Twitter’s Manager For Social Innovation On How Social Is Shaping The Future Of Nonprofits
Written by: Rachael Chong
Claire Diaz-Ortiz works on the microblogging service’s social good and cause marketing initiatives, so she has a perfect view of how social media is helping organizations connect their stories to people around the world--and how that will change how we give back.
7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses
These companies’ founders are all members of a new generation of entrepreneurs who are looking to find disruptive ways of making money while also giving back.
The Green Bronx Machine Transforms Kids’ Lives With Vegetables
A program in the nation’s poorest area uses urban farming to teach kids an entire curriculum, and create some fresh produce in the process.
SupperKing, An Airbnb For Home-Cooked Meals
Have some sick cooking skills but no one to serve it to? Wish you had someone making home-cooked meals for you? This new service will help make sure everyone can go to as many dinner parties as they want.
A Retailer For Free Stuff, Created By Walmart, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Zipcar Vets
Yerdle--a new site where you can list things to give away--hopes to change how we view consumerism and make it easier to give unwanted purchases a second life.
The Gates-Funded Toilet Of The Future
After an extensive search, the Gates Foundation has given millions to this futuristic power-generating toilet from Caltech--with the hope that it can be the solution to sanitation problems around the world.
A Magical Paper Prevents Your Food From Rotting
Sick of your produce going south before you get a chance to eat? Fenugreen FreshPaper--the brain child of Kavita Shukla, who patented the idea while still in high school--is an herb-infused sheet of paper that naturally keeps us from wasting food.
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