Who are the most likely to inspire you to do something great? Exactly, people who Do great things! This is the simple reson why I find the idea of Do Lectures so compelling. Once a year, a group of people are invited to a forest between Teifi Gorge and Teifi Marshes Nature Reserve in West [...]

One of the biggest problems linked to poverty is disease. Every year, millions of people succumb to diseases which could have been treated if only they would have access to the medicines and health care we take for granted in the developed world. Academic laboratories continously develop important medicines and public health technologies. But it [...]

In the last blog post, I wrote about Dr. Sugata Mitra and his fascinating Hole-in-the-wall experiment, which has brought access to technology to thousands of poor children in India and elsewhere. Today, I’d like to share with you this touching BBC video, where Dr. Mitra shares his experiences from the project and reveals how similar [...]

Gotta love this. Dr. Sugata Mitra is an Indian computer scientist and the father of the Hole-in-the-wall experiment. Though India’s high-tech industry is advancing rapidly, it is a country stricken with poverty. An estimated half of

There is no denying that the esthetics of our surroundings affect us greatly. But there are more reasons to fall in love with the fantastic examples of architecture pictured above: these buildings are also models of sustainable construction. At the top: Norway is in the process of

Supercool School is the name of an online school with a unique concept. It allows and organizationsto build scalable & branded education businesses without high technology cost, through which they can create an online learning environment and charge students. This brainchild of young entrepreneur

UK newspaper The Guardian has launched a Sustainable Business Awards programme aimed to recognize companies that integrate sustainability into the core of their operations and showcase genuine innovation in corporate sustainability. The goal is also

In Kenya, where a large part of the population’s poor are unable to take loans and even get to a bank, a clever high-tech solution has spread like wildfire across the country: M-Pesa. This mobile-phone based money transfer service was developed

After the successful outcome of the EESC Design ZeroNine competition in 2009, EESC (the European Economic and Social Committee ) is now launching the second edition of the European Design Award For A Sustainable Present, the EESC Design Eleven. The competition challenges design students and designers in all 27 EU Member States as well as European [...]