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Voices of Kailahun

Voices of Kailahun

By Making It on 14 May, 2013

In Sierra Leone, a UNIDO training programme is creating jobs and reducing poverty.

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Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged gara tie-dying, Guinea, Japan, job creation, poverty reduction, Sierra Leone, training, UNIDO, Voices of Kailahun | Leave a response

Eco-innovation - what, why and how.

Eco-innovation – what, why and how.

By Making It on 2 May, 2013

Eco-innovation reduces the use of natural resources and decreases the release of harmful substances across the whole life-cycle.

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Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Eco World Styria, Eco-innovation, Eco-Innovation Observatory, European Union, green economy, green industry, Green Industry Platform, National Industrial Symbiosis Network, resource efficiency, SMEs, UNIDO | Leave a response

Where did Rio+20 leave us?

Where did Rio+20 leave us?

By Making It on 23 March, 2013

Stephen Browne surveys the aftermath of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

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Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Future of the UN Development System, industrial sustainability, natural capital, private sector, rio+20, Stephen Browne, sustainable development, UNIDO, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

Lèt Agogo: more than just a quality product made in Haiti

Lèt Agogo: more than just a quality product made in Haiti

By Making It on 21 March, 2013

BrandHaiti’s Nick Stratton investigates an alternative, sustainable model of agricultural development in Haiti.

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Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged agricultural development, alternative, BrandHaiti, dairy, Haiti, Lèt Agogo, Lèt Agogo diary cooperative, Michel Chancy, milk, Nick Stratton, nutrition, René Préval, small farmers, sustainable model, sustainable rural agriculture development, Veterimed, yoghurt, yogurt

Industrial revolution brings industry back to Europe

Industrial revolution brings industry back to Europe

By Making It on 14 March, 2013

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry on the need for sustainable re-industrialization.

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Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged 3D printing, aeronautics, Antonio Tajani, automotive, chemicals, Digital Agenda, Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, e-commerce, engineering, Enterprise & Industry magazine, entrepreneurship, European Commission, European Union, industrial revolution, industry, Key enabling technologies, pharmaceuticals, re-industrialization, resource efficiency, space

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The ‘barefoot’ solar engineers

The ‘barefoot’ solar engineers

By Making It on 11 March, 2013

The Barefoot College in western India is training illiterate or semi-literate women from all over the world to be solar engineers.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Barefoot College, Bunker Roy, Fiji, India, renewable energy technology, Sierra Leone, solar, South-South cooperation, Tilonia, women

The first challengers

The first challengers

By Making It on 5 February, 2013

Devaki Jain on how the South’s feminists challenged accepted economic thinking.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Arjun Sengupta, bubble-up, DAWN, Deepshikha Batheja, Devaki Jain, Development Alternatives for Women for a New Era, feminists, Gandhi, higglers, inclusive growth, Julius Nyerere, Louis Emmerij, National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector, Non-Algined Movement, South Commission, South-South cooperation, trickle-down, UNIDO, wage-led growth, women

Generation next: snapshots #6

Generation next: snapshots #6

By Making It on 4 February, 2013

A snapshot of the founder of Skydrop Enterprises, a Kenyan company producing low-cost, purified drinking water.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Anzisha Prize, bottled water, drinking water, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Joel Mwale, Kenya, Skydrop Enterprises

Generation next: snapshots #5

Generation next: snapshots #5

By Making It on 3 February, 2013

A snapshot of the founder of one of Malaysia’s leading solution providers for the treatment and processing of oil palm biomass.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, global green synergy, innovation, JCI, Joseph Lim, Junior Chamber International, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, oil palm biomass, palm kernel-shell char, palm oil industry, renewable energy, technology, value-added biomass products

The water-food-energy nexus

The water-food-energy nexus

By Making It on 2 February, 2013

SABMiller’s Andy Wales on how to manage the inevitable trade-offs between scarce resources.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Andy Wales, beer, brewing, crops, efficiency rewards, energy, fertilizer, food, freshwater, hydropower, nexus, Rajasthan, resouce scarcity, Rochees, SABMiller, trade-offs, water, water demand, Water Resources Group, water-food-energy nexus, World Water Week

Generation next: snapshots #4

Generation next: snapshots #4

By Making It on 23 January, 2013

A snapshot of the managing director of the Chinese company which manufactures water-efficient toilets.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, China, Chunhong Chen, Shanghai, toilet, water-saving, Yiyuan Environmental Group

Learning by the 'midnight sun' in Sierra Leone

Learning by the ‘midnight sun’ in Sierra Leone

By Making It on 21 January, 2013

Muneer Kirmani on how solar-charged lanterns enable education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged chores, éducation, female pupils, Ishmael Bangura, Kambia, Kandeh Yumkella, kerosene, Kychom, Mhorikhanu, Muneer Kirmani, Peace Corps Education Volunteer, primary education, Sierra Leone, solar lantern, solar-charged lanterns, Sub-Saharan Africa, Susu, UNIDO

Costa Rica - Central American success story

Costa Rica – Central American success story

By Making It on 10 January, 2013

Country feature: Costa Rica, including an interview with Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Central America, Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica, competitiveness, Costa Rica, Costa Rica EMPRENDE, Desarrollo de la Zona Brunca, Economic Development, FTZs, Guanacaste, Happy Planet Index, inclusive development, industrialization, Industry and Trade, Intel, Joaquin Fuentes-Cardona, Laura Chinchilla, Limón, Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy, Partido Liberación Nacional, UNIDO

Generation next: snapshots #3

Generation next: snapshots #3

By Making It on 8 January, 2013

A snapshot of the inventors of the sOccket, a soccer ball that doubles as a portable generator.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged developing countries, Harvard College, Jessica O. Matthews, Julia Silverman, LED light, sOccket, Toyota Mothers of Invention award, Uncharted Play

Generation next: snapshots #2

Generation next: snapshots #2

By Making It on 6 January, 2013

A snapshot of Tunisia’s innovative wind energy company, Saphon Energy.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged generation next, Hassine Labaïed, innovation, KPMG Innovation Award, Making It, sailboat technology, Saphon Energy, Saphonian, TED, wind energy, wind power, wind turbine, WIPO, zero-blade technology

Features

  • Generation next: snapshots #1
  • A partnership for low-carbon growth in Asia
  • Good Business: EcoPost
  • Youth unemployment and the Arab Spring

Global Forum

  • Hot topic: The ‘Girl Effect’ – Stopping poverty before it starts
  • Hot topic: The ‘Girl Effect’ – Covering up the reality of austerity
  • Sustainia: building the world of tomorrow
  • Making profits while gas continues to flare

Hot Topic

  • Hot topic: Climate justice–inclusive sustainable development
  • Hot topic: Rethinking climate security
  • Hot topic: Growth – the end of the world as we know it?
  • Is nuclear power necessary for a carbon-free future?

Policy Brief

  • Solutions to the gender pay gap
  • Gender-sensitive industrial development
  • Measuring women’s economic empowerment
  • Beyond the ‘resource curse’

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