Hakan Gursu's Unique Flame Stovetop Kettle Heats Water Up in a Flash. TED Talk by Prof Anil Gupta. Our Progress - Pollinate Energy. Pollinate Energy started on the outskirts of Bangalore back in late 2012.
As each month passes, we discover more and more un-electrified communities throughout the city. By mid 2015 we hope to have expanded into two new cities. Beyond 2015, we have ambitions to be in every tier-one city in India, reaching millions. systems installed people reached communities serviced. 20 Clever Inventions You Probably Didn't Know Were Made By Indians. Indian inventions and discoveries have been instrumental in shaping the face of the current modern world.
20 Clever Inventions You Probably Didn't Know Were Made By Indians. Vikalp Sangam. Www.tinytechindia.com/Template/index.php?id=61&Title= WIND ENERGY. Solar Fire's beautiful concentrators: An open source secret. Lorin Symington, the self-described "vagabond technologist," would like to seed his family's solar concentrator designs in developing countries worldwide.
Photo courtesy of Lorin Symington Production stopped at a small solar concentrator manufacturing facility in Burkina Faso when the stockpile of anodized aluminum ran out. Hubs & Spokes. DSH is not a physically centralized system.
Instead, DSH is designed to work as a decentralized network of hubs and spokes. Each hub is a center of education excellence and the hubs themselves "talk" to each other. The spokes are typically the poor rural and urban slum schools that need help the most, schools that lack good teachers, good content, and other resources. Her goal is to impart holistic education to the poor and advocate gender studies for both girls and boys.
Posted 26-Jan-2013 Vol 4 Issue 4 Educationist Urvashi Sahni uses an innovative and cost-effective technique to impart quality education to underprivileged school kids.
Through a project called ‘Digital Study Hall’ (DSH), the Lucknow based pedagogue has shot over 2000 videos of classroom lectures of some of the best teachers from ‘middle-class’ schools in cities, which have been used to teach students in rural areas and urban slums. The project that was launched in 2005 has benefitted over 6000 students studying mostly in government schools located in parts of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab. Many of these are single-teacher schools, where the teachers lack the skill and training to impart quality education to students.
DSH makes the content in local language according to respective state curricula from urban hubs like Lucknow and Pune. Chilean Incubator Wants Companies Using Tech to Help the Poor. It may not seem so out of the ordinary anymore to crowdsource solutions to the problems posed by poverty, but doing so with a for-profit business model adds a new and challenging twist.
That’s a challenge that Socialab, a Latin American not-for-profit company, welcomes. The organization runs competitions for technology-based business proposals that address some of the major problems wrought by poverty in the region: food insecurity, lack of clean drinking water, struggling public education and so on. Then it taps its virtual community of 300,000 users to identify the best ideas and fine-tune them. The network is, according to Socialab founder and CEO Julian Ugarte, the largest open innovation platform in the world. 40 Of The Most Powerful Social Issue Ads That’ll Make You Stop And Think. Many people complain about glossy advertisements and TV commercials as an obnoxious way for companies to invade our everyday lives and ram their products down our throats, but that’s not all that printed ads are good for.
The best commercials on this list are excellent examples of effective advertising strategies for social issues marketing campaigns that let their voices be heard. A well-made advertisement is designed to grab your attention and to remain in your memory long after you’ve left it behind, and that is precisely what many of these social problems need. Getting people to think and worry about various social and environmental issues such as human trafficking, racism, and air pollution is significant for raising public supporting and affecting meaningful changes. Alternative Self Build Techniques. If you want to learn about alternative building techniques, then this show feature is designed with you in mind!
Live demonstrations from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) will inspire you about the merits of green building and energy conservation. They will focus on the many uses of clay in sustainable, natural building. Visitors can view a pizza oven being built throughout the day, plus there will be live demonstrations of cob walling and clay rendering too. You will be able to join in with any of these activities and get your hands dirty! As well as demonstrating these clever arts of green building, visitors will have the chance to talk to the CAT experts about different building techniques, and look at samples of various types of alternative building materials. Build It Live: Getting Muddy with Self-Builders in Kent, 22nd & 23rd Feb. This weekend CAT is travelling to Kent and we are planning to get muddy.
Build It Live: Getting Muddy with Self-Builders in Kent, 22nd & 23rd Feb. GuideStar CTP. Part 1 of 5 - How to Make Better Decisions - BBC Horizon. Www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~sohoni/sel.pdf. Esops in Education. Our Employee Social Options (Esops) program supports employees in creating volunteering projects based on the needs of underprivileged communities in and around their place of work.
Employees generate ideas for projects, prepare annual activity plans, implement each activity, and monitor results. To fund these employee initiatives, each sector targets to donate 0.5 percent of its profit after tax to the central CSR fund and 0.5 percent to Esops. Education is one of the strongest categories of Esops activity. We support local schools, children’s homes, and educational institutions with stationery, books, bags, uniforms, and building materials. In 2009, the Farm Equipment Sector (FES) in Mumbai distributed books and educational material to 2,127 tribal students. What's the next big thing in public services? Citizens. MELBOURNE -- "It was Friday, July 15, 2011," Loren O'Keeffe states without faltering, pinpointing the day her then-24-year-old brother Dan went (and remains) missing from their home in Geelong, a regional town on the outskirts of Melbourne.
When the 29-year-old turned to the police for help they said only missing cases that are deemed suspicious (thus criminal) by police are allocated search resources. O'Keeffe decided to take matters into her own hands, with her efforts culminating in the establishment of Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN), a non-profit organization that offers an actionable how-to kit that enables anyone to conduct their own missing persons search. Our Approach » Bicycles Against Poverty. A clearing house of ideas, info, alternatives, on rural India's multiple crises. Wilson Solar Grill for outdoor cooking - National Green Living. A group of MIT students have been working on a solar grill that uses a Fresnel lens and solar energy to melt down a container of Lithium Nitrate, which is like a battery storing thermal energy for 25 hours.
The heat created at temperatures above 450 degrees Fahrenheit is used for convection cooking outdoors. Fundamatics. Miscellaneous Q and A's about cob building. Q: I am needing to build a home for my son and me. I will not have much budget to work with overall. I want to find out if there is someone who can come and build a home for us such as a cob home?
How much is the cost to do this? It would be a simple design home I need a home about average 1600 sq feet? I am by Dallas Texas. Tribal girls of Hutup are reaching their goals, playing football. Posted 13-Jul-2012 Vol 3 Issue 28 Teenage tribal girls in Jharkhand are the new icons of community leadership and development. Despite their poor physical growth and the hardships they face, these youngsters have donned spikes and taken to the football field in the hope of earning a better living. At Yuwa, a community sports centre on the outskirts of Ranchi, Jharkhand’s state capital, hundreds of local girls are being trained round-the-clock to become professional football players. Ignite NIF. Future solar cells may be made of wood. (Phys.org) —A new kind of paper that is made of wood fibers yet is 96% transparent could be a revolutionary material for next-generation solar cells.
Coming from plants, the paper is inexpensive and more environmentally friendly than the plastic substrates often used in solar cells. Is a low-priced solar irrigation pump on the horizon? Paul Polak and a team of solar and systems engineers are trying to reimagine the solar irrigation pump, like this one, to reduce its cost for the world's impoverished small-plot farmers. Photo courtesy of Paul Polak. Ten low-tech ways to irrigate crops. First instance of ball lightning captured on video and spectrographs. The $200 T-shirt that will fix your bad posture. There are numerous ways the fashion industry is trying to make your clothes smarter. Volunteer, work, intern, organize, hire and connect. Change the world - idealist.org.
The secret ingredient for a safer bike helmet: paper. 11 January 2014Last updated at 20:18 ET By Anna Lacey BBC Health Check Could a paper helmet (L) offer more protection than polystyrene (R)? The Electricity-Generating Bicycle Desk That Would Power the World - James Hamblin. Catapult Design - Home. Meeting the Standard: Tech & the Developing World. Www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in/flvplayer.php?playfile=Anil_gupta. Life Sack Solves Drinking Water Issues for the Third World. In many areas of the world the water crisis is not an issue of scarcity — it’s an issue of providing access to a clean supply. The lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills thousands of people every year, while countless others struggle to meet their basic needs.
6 Water-purifying Devices for Clean Drinking Water in the Developing World. From finance management to helping the rural poor: the journey of Rustam Sangupta. Five questions with Lina Nilsson. An ancient filtration material removes pesticides from drinking water. India FoodBanking Network. Presentation of National Innovation Council's 3rd Report to people 2013 to Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President of India.
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IBM Research Africa. All the news that's fit to pay for. TEDxDirigo - Eli Stefanski - Making Systems Thinking Sexy. Freedom from shareholders: how to succeed as an open-source business. Water purification prescribed in Ayurveda. Gallery: 15 concepts to replace diesel-powered water pumps on Indian farms. Design challenge: Invent a better way to measure a well's water level. 81 Ways Humanitarian Aid has Become Participatory. CLEAR South Asia M&E Webinar Series. Www.povertyactionlab.org/publication/the-price-is-wrong. Securing Water For Food. Science and Innovation for Development.
Not Just for Popeye: Spinach Protein Boosts Solar Cell Power. Solar Energy from Plant Protein Structure. Serve.me.nus.edu.sg/arun/file/Publications/books/Solar Drying_Fundamentals_Applications_and_Innovations.pdf. Serve.me.nus.edu.sg/arun/file/Publications/books/Solar Drying_Fundamentals_Applications_and_Innovations.pdf. Www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/viewFile/1734/1399. Appropriate technology. Appropedia. Appropedia.