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Petite Woman Builds Small Hydro Plants Bringing Electricity to Half Million Indonesians
An Indonesian woman has developed micro-hydro projects that have already delivered electricity – and all that comes with it – to half a million...
‘University of the People’ Offers Online Courses to Poor Students
After the earthquake in Haiti destroyed much of the country’s higher-education infrastructure, the University of the People decided to set up three computer centers...
Apps for Good: Disadvantaged Youths Invited to Develop Mobile Applications
The group of altruistic technology professionals working under the name Apps for Good is now recruiting immigrants or unemployed youths from East and South...
Rags 2 Riches Lifts Women from Filipino Landfill into High Fashion Trade
Four years ago, in one of the Philippines' largest dumpsites and home to 12,000 families, women searched through garbage for fabric scraps to weave...
Bringing Solar Light Bulbs to the World and Prosperity Too?
Inventor Steve Katsaros perfected his solar design in June 2010, a simple bulb that charges up during the day and lights up the room...
“Liter of Light” Brings Sun into Dim Shanties Using Only Plastic Bottles
Plastic bottles jammed through circular holes in the metal rooftops of a Manila slum neighborhood bring light into dim and dreary shanties, thanks to...
MBAs Today Want to Make an Impact on the World
Business school students want to learn how to make profits in the business world. That’s a given. But now, they are wanting to make...
2nd Ecomagination Contest to Reward Innovative Green Ideas With Funding
General Electric is again giving eco-entrepreneurs a chance to take their ideas to the next level. GE's 'Eco-magination' contest is encouraging socially responsible businesses...
New York Start-Ups Ride Tech Boom
The Internet gold rush is spreading east. A decade after the tech bubble burst and brought down Silicon Alley, investors are crowding back into...
College Class Builds Apps — and Fortunes
Stanford students took seriously their homework assignment in 2007: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
The students ended up getting millions of...
Gates Foundation Funds Bold Ideas Including Dirt-Charged Cell Phones and Human Waste Fertilizer
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced 88 new winners of $100,000 grants to support innovative research that has the potential to dramatically...
Bionic Yarn From Plastic Bottles: A Rapper’s Green Investment in Fashion
Rapper, record producer and clothing entrepreneur Pharrell Williams is a key investor in Return Textiles, the the New York manufacturer of Bionic Yarn –...
Richard Branson Plans to Save Lemurs
Using an undeveloped island he owns in the Caribbean, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to create the first wild colony of lemurs outside of...
He Helps Pakistan’s Low-income Families Afford Healthcare: $1.80 per month
13,000 low-income workers in Pakistan are getting nearly-free health care thanks to Asher Hasan and his micro-insurance program, Naya Jeevan, founded in 2007.
The surgeon-turned-social...
Tech-Savvy Student Tracks Down MacBook Thief
What would you do if you were a college freshman and your MacBook Air was stolen?
Eighteen-year-old "technology entrepreneur" and Bentley College student Mark Bao...
Women of Courage Awardees Set Example for the World
On Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to recognize ten remarkable...
International Women’s Day: Three Women Turned Pennies into Empowerment
Today is the 100-year anniversary of the founding of International Women's Day—a day to celebrate the achievements of women worldwide and to rekindle efforts...
17 New Small Business Tax Cuts for 2010
Since January 2009, President Obama and Congress has passed or extended 17 small business tax cuts and credits, including the exclusion of up to...
Rejected by Publishers 26 Year-old Makes $1Million Selling eBooks on Internet
After countless rejections from large publishing companies, Amanda Hocking turned to the internet to sell her stories in digital formats that now have made...
Trending: 5 Signs That Optimism is the New Black in Business
We can see it every week in the business pages of newspapers and magazines. From manufacturing, to private sector service industries, from venture capital...