“If you educate a man, you educate an individual, if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” Some 130 million girls around the world between the ages of 6 and 17 are still not in school —75 percent of whom are adolescents. As a society we need to change that. Girls’ education yields some… read more »
“Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a big problem affecting girls worldwide and it is a problem we want to solve,” Stacy Owino, one of the app’s creators, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. One step forward in the right direction. Certain traditions don’t serve us anymore and the disharmony they are bringing with them have influences… read more »
Ecological restoration (ER) is based on using ecological knowledge to understand how ecosystems work and to use that understanding to recover ecosystem conditions that maintain their structure and function. A mainstream concept intertwining social and scientific roles that reflect modern scientific and public views how valuable nature is and the need for her to sustains… read more »
Foldscope Instruments Inc developed a paper folding microscope and as they say on their website, their goal is to share curiosity worldwide. Foldscope is the ultra-affordable paper microscope. It was designed to be portable and durable, while performing on par with conventional research microscopes (140X magnification and 2 micron resolution). That is strong enough to view… read more »
Whale Power is a company that got inspired by the fins of hump-whales. These majestic 30-tonne marine mammals can reach heights of 15 meters as they break through the ocean’s surface, how can they do it? Well, they have some special designed by nature elements, that help them with that. Tubercles are bumps on their… read more »
Conservation International set out to achieve the goal of zero net deforestation in Amazonia to protect essential resources, mitigate climate change and increase prosperity of the local people. They are currently working on a 30.000 hectares (70.000 acres). In the past decades more than 20% of the Amazonian rain-forest was cut down and the predictions… read more »
Manu Prakash is becoming a household name that we will write more about for sure, since he is tackling real problems with solutions that are affordable, scalable and simple to use. He want to impact the lives of all people, not just the ones that can afford a good quality of life. Inspired by the… read more »
What will be the leaps of progress that will take place in Africa? When there is no structure and no infrastructure one is not bound to take into account preexisting conditions. That is exactly the scenario for a lot of African countries that will go through an evolution never seen before. M-Pesa started as a… read more »
There are more and more companies that are focusing on the needs of people who live in the 3rd world countries and Deciwatt is definitely one of those. The good thing about companies like this is that their products can also serve a purpose in the developed world, where we are more and more dependent… read more »
Family companies that survived for more than 3 generations and what we can learn from them… I will lay down 5 Neo-commandment learned through decades of hard work and perseverance from those who came before us. But before we do that, let’s just for a moment pretend someone came down from a mountain and gave… read more »