August 2009
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Can Microfinance Cure Poverty?
“My own view is that we have to approach extreme poverty a little like the way in which a doctor might approach a patient. By that I mean do a diagnosis and understand what is it that is really ailing the particular country, the particular region. Sometimes its terrible governance and the question is how to improve the governance and the hope for the kind of change that is needed. In other...
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Sustainable Communities.
alexandrahastings:
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sustainable communities. Not sustainable in the sense that they have a low carbon footprint (although this is an important aspect to creating an economically sustainable community), but in the sense that people want to live there.
Among other things, a sustainable community is facilitated by an infrastructure that encourages interaction...
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Watchcleaneconomies:
Every year, there are 3.5 billion people who surfer from a lack of clean water. Of these 3.5 billion people, 3 million kids die each year.
Michael Pritchard explains that “each day…there are millions of people who are forced to drink dirty water or face death.”
His solution is the “LifeSaver” bottle.
Before the LifeSaver bottle, the best filter had pores 200 nanometers in...
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Clean Economies 99Designs Contest
We just finished the logo for Clean Economies and posted the new contest to crowdsource the design for the rest of the site.
I’ll be posting more about the experience later. If you’re interested in sustainability, you should follow Clean Economies on Tumblr and Twitter.
Stay tuned for the new site.
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