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Ecosia, a search engine company aims to use profits to plant 1 billion trees by 2020

Nov 13, 2018 | Editor's Picks, Enterprise Stories, Go Courage, Ideas |

What is the most popular web search engine on your top of mind? Google? Bing? Yahoo? Baidu? You...

Idea: How James branded elephants to support education in the developing world

Jun 10, 2014 | Go Courage, Ideas |

25-year-old James Boon was inspired by charitable work overseas to create Elephant Branded, an ethical business supporting craft and education in the developing world.

Case Study: Africa: Feeding the rising urban population

Dec 9, 2013 | Food Crisis & Rescue, Go Action, Go Courage, Ideas, Urban Farming |

Today, more than half of African citizens live in the slums, each living on $2 a day to survive. According to a report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 600 million people in Africa will be living in 24 of the 30 fastest-growing cities by that time. Yet, the production and supply of food is rarely considered when designing and managing cities. So,,what to do?

Case Study: Africa can feed itself in a generation

Dec 7, 2013 | Food Crisis & Rescue, Go Action, Go Courage, Ideas, Urban Farming |

A new book claims Africa could feed itself within a generation, and become a major agricultural exporter. What was that about?

Water and the freedom to live healthily

Oct 13, 2012 | Go Courage, Ideas |

Pump Aid – Elephant Pump, bring sustainable sanitation to Malawi, Zimbabwe

Watoto

Oct 7, 2012 | Charity Profile, Go Charity |

Watoto is an holistic care programme that was initiated as a response to the overwhelming number of orphaned children and vulnerable women in Uganda.

Kenyans Going Mobile to Stay Healthy

Sep 1, 2012 | Go Courage, Ideas |

Apart from help targeting disaster aid, mobile phone can serve in more means. Nairobi startup’s health app surges; Safaricom gives subscribers links to experts for two cents a minute.

Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?

Jul 6, 2012 | Experience Sharing, Go Courage |

The inside story of Matt Damon’s bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe’s great crises.

William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind

Jul 2, 2012 | Go Courage, Ideas |

When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.