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Tag Archives: sustainability
The Sustainability of Social Enterprise
Social enterprise has its roots closely interlinked with development and philanthropic models, with charities, NGOs and non-profits. In the early days, they relied heavily on grants and donations. As Sir Ronald Cohen (the so-called ‘Father of Social Investment’) says, many … Continue reading
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Tagged business model, Filipe Santos, philanthropy, Sir Ronald Cohen, social enterprise, sustainability
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Predicting the Future of Social Entrepreneurship
via @Forbes It’s that time of the year – everyone’s making lists of the best and worst of the past year, predicting what the future holds in the coming year, and trying to identify the trends that have defined – … Continue reading
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Tagged corporates, impact investing, innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainability
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Revolutionize Agriculture with Solar Power
Greenpeace came up with a brilliant initiative of the installations of solar based irrigation system at Purnea & Vaishali districts of Bihar. Looking at the poor irrigation facilities due to unavailability of electric supply and availability of abundant sunshine in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bihar, designpublic, innovation, irrigation, nimble agriculture, solar power, sustainability
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MicroGrids: A sustainable alternative?
I came across an article: “Microgrids: The Way of the Future?”, that interestingly captures the relevance of the smart-grid concept that we are trying to develop in our fourth edition of the Design Public Conclave. Under the current scenario of … Continue reading
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Tagged designpublic, micro-grids, minigrids, Post-grid power, sustainability, TERI
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A conversation with Sriganesh from LIRNEAsia
As the Design Public conclave is drawing closer, we are reaching out to experts to develop our four challenge tracks. In this process I interviewed Mr. Sriganesh Lokananthan, Senior Research Manager at LIRNEasia, a regional information and communication technology, policy … Continue reading
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Tagged LIRNEasia, nimble agriculture, small farmer, sustainability
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Grassroots innovation for menstrual hygiene
While there has been so much brouhaha about India’s efforts towards achieving Total Sanitation, we still lack a focus towards some basic personal hygiene practices, like the use of sanitary napkins during menstruation. India claims an abysmally low usage of … Continue reading
Products that reveal their makers’ philosophy?
Why are some phones and tablets easier to use than others? And does a product’s usability also translate into it being easily fixable? Hardly, as any Apple repair person would tell you. The iPhone and iPad have screws of Apple’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, google, New York Times, product design, smartphones, sustainability, tablets, telecommunications
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US invests $21 Million in BioFuel Research in India
As India’s population and energy needs explode, and citizens are struggling to pay for their fuel and transportation needs, there is a recognized and concerted effort to develop alternative fuels from bio waste and other sources, to reduce the dependency … Continue reading
