Social Entrepreneurship
Google's power plan
Google says the U.S. can be coal- and oil-free by 2030, and it's putting 45 million dollars where its mouth is.
A new approach to a housing program
Housing assistance programs that do better screening than some banks or mortgage companies. ...
Portable light kits and the Huichol Indians
American designers and architects are distributing a textile in Mexico that absorbs the sun's rays during the day, and gives off light at night. ...
Out of the box housing
An entrepreneur who turns steel cargo shipping containers into housing finds success as the push for reuse materials increases....
Crowdsourcing crisis information in Kenya
A group of Kenyan developers are about to launch a new version of software that will help communities map and predict violence. ...
Green jobs and inner-city youth
Attorney and social activist Van Jones jump-started a training program to teach inner-city youth in the San Francisco area how to install solar panels....
Green cleaning cooperative
In the Boston area, a group of Brazilian immigrant housecleaners have joined together to form a co-op that makes their own environmentally-friendly and safe cleaning products and educates other housecleaners....
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Social entrepreneur John Wood quit his job at Microsoft and started building libraries and schools in poor countries around the world....
Eco-Musician in Mozambique
Singer-activist Feliciano Dos Santos of Mozambique founded the NGO, Estamos, to bring clean water and toilets to his war-torn nation....
Devices to help the world
Inventors descend on annual M.I.T. summit to conceive, design and build devices to help the developing world. ...
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