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SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
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SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
A young architect is tackling water scarcity with a household desalination device.
Activists use moral analogies with rogue industries and states to stigmatize fossil fuels.
Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.
Global Himalayan Expedition turns adventure seeking into sustainable giving, creating electricity and employment in remote Indian villages.
How Middlebury’s culture of collaborative, student-centric innovation lead to Energy2028, the phaseout of fossil fuel investments in the college endowment. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
The two-person company Solmove has a plan to pave Germany’s roads with small, durable, slip-resistant solar panels. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Strategies for cross-sectoral partnership in reaching consumers in emerging markets through pay-as-you-go business models.
A collection of our recent articles, essays, and book excerpts covering climate change, environmental protection, and sustainability.
Ending energy poverty to address systemic inequality requires a much more ambitious plan than philanthropic and nonprofit leaders currently envision.