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Help Us Win a Grant to Create Shareable 2.0

Shareable
March 23rd, 2012

Shareable is in the running for a $300,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to redo our site using an open design process.

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The Future of Solar Born from a Lifetime of Innovation

Ashoka Yobo Member
December 2nd, 2011

Eden Full always wanted to be a scientist. At the age of nine, she entered a science competition and built her first solar car.

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Arup Proposes ‘Cluster’ City for Water Starved Area of China

Wired
October 4th, 2011

Less reliance on fossil fuels, biodiversity and neighbourhood planning are the buzzwords in the latest report released by design, engineering and planning sages, Arup. And they are hoping to put the proposals in the report to test by building a model eco city in China.

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Design Meets Social Innovation

Heelerd Communication Design
July 8th, 2011

Social Innovation Design is simply (and remarkably) the design of innovation and change that assumes ethical responsibility for creating positive outcomes for people and the planet.

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Simple Solutions, Big Impact

Ashoka
April 27th, 2011

Youth Venture is excited about Engineering for Change (E4C) – a community that employs engineering to tackle humanitarian issues – and we want to share a selection of the solutions featured on their site.

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Clean Water, Clean Energy

Ode Magazine Yobo Member
December 15th, 2011

By Wouter Janssen In the prosperous US West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream [...]

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Arab Spring Activists Sit Down With Silicon Valley Suits

Huffington Post
November 3rd, 2011

Last week, tech executives and Internet activists swarmed San Francisco for the first ever Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference. The two-day event focused on the increasingly complex relationship between the Internet and human rights.

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US Department of Energy Awards More Than $175 Million for Advanced Vehicle Research and Development

US Department of Energy
August 12th, 2011

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced more than $175 million over the next three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies.

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Celcius biodigester recycles organic waste into usable energy

Green Launches
June 3rd, 2011

Kitchens today have had a paradigm shift away from those in the past when it comes to design and technology used. Designer Marcela Vanesa Céspedes has come up with an efficient way to dispose of organic waste in your kitchen itself and at the same time create a bit of renewable energy too.

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Car that Runs on Nothing but Water Unveiled in Japan

Presscore
April 4th, 2011

Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water. The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car’s tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car.

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