Garbage turns into gold in Bangladesh

By Lisa Schroeder published in CSMonitor Maqsood Sinha and Iftekhar Enayetullah like to talk trash, but that’s be­­cause they’re pioneers in Bang­ladesh’s organic-waste recycling. They are the founders and directors of Waste Concern. Since 1995, this NGO has reduced the amount of urban garbage produced here, created jobs and healthier living environments for poor residents, [...]

Bookshop on Wheels enabling education in India

India’s sprawling rural market has been a honey pot for sellers of soap, two-wheelers, mobile telephones and several other consumer goods. Pankaj Kurulkar is trying his hand at something new—books. An electrical engineer by training, 45-year-old Kurulkar ran a networking and hardware solutions company for 15 years, before he put Rs3 crore of his own [...]

Cooking stove that saves lives in India

According to the World Health Organization’s, or WHO’s, Indoor Air Pollution: National Burden of Disease Estimates of 2002 (the latest available), at least 80% of Indians used solid fuels for cooking and the resultant pollution has killed over 400,000 people. Envirofit India Pvt. Ltd—founded by Shell Foundation, the UK, part of the Shell Group, and [...]