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The Light Project: Incentivizing Recycling in Rio de Janeiro
Just days after her company set up the first large-scale recycling project in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, Fernanda Mayrink saw a young man hand over two bags of garbage at the collection point. It was...
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Milaap: Providing Vocational Training through Microfinance
In India, only 1 percent of individuals between 15 and 25 formally learn a trade or skill. In the developed world, that average is 95 percent. This lack of access to vocational training is one of the...
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SOLBEN: Biodiesel Entrepreneurs Paving the Way In Mexico
In 2007, high school student Daniel Gómez Iñiguez was working on a chemistry research project about the production of biodiesel. This project would become the tip of a big iceberg—one that highlights...
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The Mercado Mayapan: Preserving Culture and Tradition
Push open the door to the Mercado Mayapan in El Paso, Texas, and you can smell the food revolution at hand. Nopales—green cactus paddles—stuffed with cheese and mushrooms sizzle on the grill. Burritos...
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Harnessing India’s Clean Energy Potential
The energy crisis in this country is an urgent and growing concern. Our oil imports have doubled in the last decade; we now import around 80% of our crude oil requirements. Roughly 70% of the energy...
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Wanted: a new direction for education
While we drown in the noise of debates over what India needs to do, how many talk of education? Politics is important in a democracy and has a rightful place, but if democracy is to succeed, it needs a...
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CGNet Swara: The Rise of the Citizen-Journalist
Reporting is no longer limited to writers and broadcasters with years of professional journalism experience. Ordinary citizens, or citizen journalists, can report on events as they see them so that we...
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The Guilty Indian
I’m always amazed when foreigners visit India in search of inner peace. Admittedly, you can discover a lot of wonderful things in India, but peace certainly is not one of them. Guilt, however, is...
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India: From present participle to past participle of “Rise”
The world is reeling. It all started in 2008 with the subprime crisis in the US, which spared no corner of the globe, followed by the fall of the PIGS economies. Later, when the world was waking up to...
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Innovation on Wheels
In this country, riddled by contradictions but brimming with cultural diversity, if there is one thing that remains constant, it is the myriad different hopes as an answer to every question. In one...
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