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Sanergy: A Startup That Plans to Turn Waste into Energy in Africa
A new business venture called Sanergy is trying to turn Kenya's sanitation problem into jobs, energy, and profits.
Technology
Intelligent, Adaptive Lights Reduce Energy Use by 90 Percent
Researchers at MIT are working on a technology that automatically and continuously adjusts the lighting in your workspace to suit your needs.
Technology
Video: MIT's High-Tech Artificial Limbs
Can we make artificial limbs that are as good as-or better than-the originals?
Business
Automation Insurance: Robots Are Replacing Middle Class Jobs
The middle class is disappearing and the problem is deeper than politics. How will we understand work in the coming age of robotics?
Environment
MIT Makes More Progress on Printable Solar Cells
The march towards cheap, printable solar panels continues: MIT researchers have figured out a way to print thin film solar cells on paper using a...
The Community Board
Swarm of Micro-Helicopters Could Create a Giant 3-D Display | Wired.com
Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT. Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be...
Technology
Superb Idea: Body-heat-powered Electronics
A couple of scientists over at MIT have come up with something novel and potentially very useful: They've figured out how to harvest body heat to...
News
MIT's Diversity Problem
An internal audit of promotion practices among faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that underrepresented minorities...
Education
How to Encourage Big Ideas
What are the key elements to breakthrough research? Time, risk, and the possibility of failure, says a new paper out of MIT. These factors, which...
Environment
The GOOD 100: Artificial Photosynthesis
Fake Plastic Trees Some 2.4 billion years ago, tiny blue-green algae figured out a neat trick. Using sunshine, water, and carbon dioxide, they...
Issue 017
The GOOD 100: Open Courseware
Free Knowledge 101 As tuition costs for higher education continue to rise toward utter out-of-handedness, the open-courseware movement offers...
Environment
Results from MIT's Trash Tracking Experiment
Back in July, researchers at MIT's SENSEable City lab launched an experiment: They'd tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle...
GOOD Blog
Following the Migration Patterns of Our Trash
MIT's great SENSEable City lab recently announced a project to tag thousands of pieces of trash in New York and Seattle with wireless location...
