Sustainable Energy

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Social Enterprise

Quotable: Smart Slums Pioneer Innovative Tech Solutions

Where there is need, there is innovation.

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Sustainable Energy

In Vanuatu, Trading in Spam for Sweet Potato

How one province is growing an economy through the return to organic food

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Social Enterprise

This week: Refugees return to Syria border town after ISIS ousted

This week's roundup of top stories affecting global development solutions from across the internet.

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Financial Inclusion

Sri Lanka's Conservation Project Moves Women into More Profitable Trades

A photo essay from The Guardian reveals how microloans and business training to help women in Sri Lanka also helps restore and conserve the country’s mangrove forests.

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Social Enterprise

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through partnerships with business

23 years after the Earth Summit, a clock ticks down the hours, minutes, and seconds to the day in September 2015 when the U.N. will adopt its long-negotiated Sustainable Development Goals with the input, resources, and support of the private sector.

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Social Enterprise

Pedaling Forward: An Unintended Social Enterprise in Bolivia

A primary school in Bolivia makes and sells its own soap--with bicycle power.

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Social Enterprise

Slums, gadgets, and public health: technologies that could save the world’s poorest

Millions go without basic sanitation in the developing world's slums. But some innovators are working to fix that.

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Youth Skills

The Price of Civil War: Syria’s Economy After Four Years of Conflict

A war fought on foreign soil can boost a nation’s economy -- a civil war always ruins it.

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Value Chains

Profiting from poop: How selling human waste could revolutionize sanitation

Dealing with human waste has become a health crisis in many poor communities, but residents of a Kenyan slum have found a solution that turns poop into profit.

Renewable energy could increase by up to 50 times current production with the right support in Yemen. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363486@N01/1462086624/">Mike Weston (Flickr)</a>

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Social Enterprise

Social startup hits barriers of capital and stability in Yemen

An exciting all-women startup in Yemen has great ideas to solve an energy crisis but needs more than a good business plan to be commercially successful.