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Ghana: The Toyola moneybox – the BoP marketing tactic that got results

BoP marketing has often been a challenge, especially when it comes to making the business profitable. Moreover, clean cookstove marketing has been even worse, because customers are not sold on the product until they use it, which cannot happen on the day of purchase. Toyola stoves have overcome this barrier […]

April 17, 2013

Air quality in an app

A new app has been developed which lets people choose their mode of commute based on air quality level en route. This app, called “Mobile Observatory” lets users check pollution levels in the vicinity with just one click of an app. This is not available to the public yet, and […]

April 17, 2013

Ghana: Women need protection from indoor air pollution

This post innovatively likens the victimization of women through exposure to indoor air pollution, with the bush-rat hunting techniques popular with young boys in Ghana. Rats are chased out of their holes because of smoke filling their holes, at which point it is caught. However, women voluntarily put themselves through […]

April 17, 2013

Ambient particulate air pollution and acute lower respiratory infections: a systematic review and implications for estimating the global burden of disease

It is estimated that acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) accounts for as much as 20 per cent of mortality in young children worldwide. This study examines the relationship between exposure to PM2.5 (fine particles in the ambient air 2.5 micrometres or less in size) and the occurrence of ALRI. Read […]

April 17, 2013

India’s villages reap benefits of solar electricity access schemes

It was in 2007 that TERI, India’s leading energy research institute launched its ‘Lighting One Billion Lives’ initiative. Since then, they have distributed a number of lamps across several villages across the country. TERI does not sell lamps, but instead works with its researchers to help manufacturers improve efficiency. Read […]

April 17, 2013

Big social costs tallied in regions with scant energy access

This post compiles a number of sectors like healthcare and education that suffer from the lack of electricity in the developing world. These reflect on the high social costs these countries must pay as a result. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

Microbial batteries could help Africans use soil to charge cell-phones

Aviva Aiden, a doctor from Boston has figured out a way to use the microbes living in the soil as electricity generators, enough to charge a cell phone. This helped her get funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates’ Foundation. The pilot implementation of these batteries was done in Uganda, […]

April 17, 2013

Dealing with energy poverty, one football at a time

A new start up in the US is working on a football that generates electricity when kicked. This electricity can also be stored within the football. This project is being supported by the Clinton Global Initiative and has the backing of David Villa, a famous football personality. Read more here.

April 17, 2013

India: North India gets a new clean cookstove

AGNI cookstove is a clean cookstove approved by the government of India. This stove runs on rice husk, and produces clean flames which do away with the health hazards that typical ‘chulhas’ or inefficient cookstoves usually entailed. This cookstove will soon be launched in the North Eastern parts of India, […]