Website: http://www.launch.org/innovators/nina-marsalek Description: Sun-powered lanterns are safe, emission free, and affordable for even low-income households. They are designed to be used in rough environments and provide easy-to-use light that helps increase school performance and business productivity. The initiative’s micro-entrepreneur model also creates jobs, especially benefitting young people and women. Why: Kenya has 18% electrification rate. That means that for 82

Website: http://www.she-inc.org/ Description: A step-by-step case-study of successful methods for achieving community buy-in for solar cooking as well as training for building them. Shared by Mary Simonson and Nancy Bailey. Implementation Effort: Moderate Maximum Cost: Audience: Individuals, Communities #EconomicDevelopment #Technology #education #LivableCommunities

Website: http://barefootcollege.org Description: Training that addresses problems of drinking water, girl's education, health and sanitation, rural unemployment, as well as social awareness and the conservation of the organizations that already exist in the villages whose wisdom, knowledge and skills are neither identified, mobilized nor applied just because they do not have an educational qualification.The Barefoot College is a place of learning and unlearning. It's a place

Website: http://nrdc.org Description: NRDC's Action Center provides tools, tips and information you need to help protect the earth's extraordinary wealth of natural treasures. Sign up for free bi-weekly email alerts on urgent issues needing your immediate action, join our Activist Network. Allows users to send correspondence to government representatives. Why: Allows users to be informed about natural resource issues and respond to issues. Implementation Effort: Simple Audien

Website: http://www.peepoople.com/ Description: The Peepoo is a personal single use toilet, that sanitizes human excreta shortly after defecation, preventing the faeces from contaminating the immediate and larger environment. The toilet is a high technology product for a low economy. As with the original Tetra-Pak, it uses a minimum of material while providing maximum hygiene. Recognizing consumer needs, the Peepoo is formulated from a bottom up perspective putting the user’s

Website: http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/ http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/resources Email: jwijnants@keepingchildrensafe.org.uk "Keeping Children Safe Toolkits" and resources enable organizations, wherever they are in the world, to develop practical child protection procedures and give staff vital training and support. Why: Keeping Children Safe - a toolkit for child protection has been developed in collaboration with the NSPCC and a coalition of international age