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Schools in Japan Get Solar Boost as Part of Stimulus

A project to convert schools to solar power by 2020 has been launched by the Japanese government as part of their stimulus plan. CrunchGear reports: Solar ...
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WhereCamp Africa in Nairobi | April 4th

WhereCamp is the free unconference for geogeographers, mobile location experts and social cartographers and all kinds of folks interested in place. It will run shortly ...
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Windpowering Kenya

The Kenyan company Lake Turkana Wind Power has announced plans to develop a $700 million dollar wind farm on 150,000 acres of land in northwestern ...
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Not Africa.

South Africa’s Optimal Energy wants to bring electric cars into mass production in Africa. It’s starting with the innovative and stylish Joule… The entire ...
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20 Ideas for Social Entrepreneurs [Part 2]

In the first half of this article I shared a few ideas for social ventures in emerging economies. Some of them I’m working on, ...
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