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US Physicist Snags Zayed Future Energy Prize
US physicist Dr. Ashok Gadgil was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement award for his efforts to develop cleaner cookstoves and safe drinking water.
SF Underground Market Undone By County Health Department
ForageSF’s Underground Market has brought together hundreds of passionate players in the flavor game–the supportive community of creators, makers, eaters, and enjoyers sees 50 new vendor applications each month. Now, with more members than the health department can snap a latex glove at, they are saying “cease and desist”.
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Among Latest Billionaires Pledging to Donate Half their Wealth
Seventeen more of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have joined Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charities over their lifetime and beyond.
Who Will Be the Steve Jobs of Micro Wind?
Amidst all the excitement about microwind turbines, it is important to think through the issues that microwind might face as it begins to compete in earnest with other forms of distributed generation, especially PV.
The Three Tools to Transform the Developing World
As the Clinton Global Initiative came to a close yesterday, there emerged a stark thread of commonality running through all of the areas that CGI works in…a near-universal agreement on the three tools that the developing world needs to solve its problems in sustainability, health, education, and economic development: Mobile devices Mobile devices Mobile devices [...]
