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.build-a-biogas-plant.com/ Why: Money spent on fuel that causes health issues is money that could be used for food, trade and medicine. Environmentally sound and practical solution. Audience: Individuals, Communities, Industry #HumanWaste #Sustainability

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: Email: Description: Heifer envisions…A world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. Heifer’s mission is…To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. Heifer's strategy is…To “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches

Website: www.earth911.com Description: Easy to use resources for searching locations for various recycling in the US and Canada. Earth 911 seeks to empower the public with community-specific resources to improve their quality of life. Availability Limits: United States and Canada Implementation Effort: Simple #Sustainability #Energy #Water #Recycling

Website: http://www.worldbike.org/ Description: The Big Boda is able to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo or two additional passengers easily, at a substantially lower cost than other forms of human-powered utility vehicles. It was designed to transport goods to and from market for entrepreneurs and consumers in developing countries. Based off the Longtail design that was produced in partnership with Kickstart International in 2003, the Big Boda is made to fit the most common

Website: http://solarcookers.org/ Description: Plans for building your own solar cookers, or purchasing, training as well. Why: Food is easily and conveniently cooked with solar energy as the "fuel" in devices called solar cookers (or solar ovens). Solar cookers are an ideal addition to any kitchen wherever there are predictable hours of sun many days of the year. Solar cooking and baking are easy. Solar cookers are safe around children and provide a great way to learn about

Website: http://calfeedesign.com/calfee-bamboo-diy-kit/ Description: The bike is an inexpensive and effective option for impoverished regions made from Bamboo that has been smoked and heat treated to prevent splitting. Lugs are available in carbon fiber or hemp fiber, for the all-natural look. The chain-stays are available in carbon fiber for extra stiffness in the drive-train. Award-winning effectiveness. Why: The Bamboo Bike Project is a collaboration between Scientists and

Website: http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/organic-no-till/ These are ecologically sustainable, environmentally responsible, socially just, economically viable, humanely managed. On mini-farms the following will double the yields and reduce the labor by half compared to traditional methods. Nothing to buy except seed. Conserves health of soil. Why: Workshops in organic, no-till, permanent bed gardening, mini-farming and mini-ranching worldwide in English & Spanish Workshop