Design
Teaching Locals to Engineer Solutions
Giving digital tools to ordinary people to help them solve problems. Forget access to computers. If you ask MIT physicist Neil Gershenfeld,...
Business
Creating a Microfinance Culture
Leading by example in the field of microfinance. ACCION International thinks big in very small increments. The microfinance nonprofit and its...
Business
Microlending a Helping Hand
Popularized in the 1970s, the practice of microcredit-giving out small loans to borrowers to encourage entrepeneurship-has offered much-needed...
Business
The Cell Phone Revolution
In the developed world, we're tethered to our mobile devices. In the developing world, the phones are essentially primary computing devices, as...
Road Map to Harmony
Searching the Web for Pandemics
Using search terms to track emerging influenza pandemics. When a handful of engineers can track the daily online searches of tens of millions...
Road Map to Harmony
Spinning a Faster Web
A technology that is speeding up the developing world's internet connections. Internet connections in the developing world are getting a boost...
News
What Is it Good For?
Sharing is part of coexisting-and that means fairly distributing land and resources, but also respecting rights and freedoms. Armed conflicts...
Environment
A Sustainable Living Laboratory
A model community that offers a template for sustainable living. Sixty-five miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, on a hillside dotted with cypress...
News
Hatching a Plan to Save the Planet
He's got the plan for how we can share our resources instead of plundering them. Lester Brown-head of the Earth Policy Institute and, for...
Business
Outdoor Businesses Protect the Outdoors
Outdoor gear companies protect the wilderness where their customers roam. Anonymously situated in a grove of bristlecone pines in the White...
Environment
Deforestation and Malaria: A Shared History
A 2006 study showed that when Amazon rainforest is cleared, malaria-carrying mosquitoes bite nearby humans nearly 300 times more frequently...
Business
Fighting Overfishing with Sustainable Seafood
Seafood purveyors who offer up only sustainable fish species.In 1994, Henry and Lisa Lovejoy smelled something fishy when they saw juvenile tuna...
Environment
A Glimpse Into Our Carbon-filled Future
It's 2009 and the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is 387 parts per million. According to NASA climate scientist James...
News
Concentrating on Carbon Dioxide
Organizing around one goal: reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. How low can you go? That's the question environmentalists will be asking...
Business
Rewarding Households for Saving the Planet
An incentive-based system to increase recycling rates in your community. According to behavioral psychologists, people will do all kinds of...
Road Map to Harmony
Treating Patients to Talk Time
An ingenious scheme to encourage people to take their TB meds. Tuberculosis treatment is a drag. Patients require a six-month course of...
Road Map to Harmony
Is the Doctor In?
Health providers are essential to preventing deaths from childbirth and disease. But "health providers" can refer to anything from nurses to...
Design
An Animated Attack on Sanitation Issues
Tackling the problem of developing world sanitation head-on. Waterborne diseases like diarrhea will never be sexy, pet causes. Nonetheless, an...
