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By Making It on 13 February, 2012
Solar visionary Jigar Shah sees small solutions to big problems for accessing energy and expanding mobile communications in developing countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to energy, Barclays Bank, Beltsville, business solution, Carbon War Room, climate change, destruction, earth, electricity, energy efficiency, entrepreneurship, explosive growth trajectory of mobile communications, financial returns, global crisis, global warming, Green Power for Mobile: Charging Choices, GSMA Development Fund, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, issue 9, Jigar Shah, Lockheed Martin, Making It magazine, Maryland, mobile phone industry, multi-billion dollar opportunity, our low-carbon future, poverty reduction, power, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), renewable energy improvements, small solutions to big problems, statistics, SunEdison, sustainable economic growth, third industrial revolution, UNIDO, United Nations, USA, wealth creation, world
By Making It on 26 August, 2011
Governments are re-evaluating their nuclear plans, but are their fears misplaced? Chris Goodall and José Etcheverry are both environmentalists, but are divided on nukes
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Chris Goodall, climate change, creativity, debate, Denmark, economy, electricity, environmentalist, feed-in tariffs, fossil fuels, fourth-generation nuclear, Fukushima, germany, global warming, grid, hydropower, Industrial Development, industrialization, industry, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International, International Renewable Energy Agency, IPCC, IRENA, Japan, José Etcheverry, low carbon energy, Making It magazine, mining, nuclear disaster, nuclear energy, reactor, reliance, renewable energy policies, renewables, solar, solar panels, tsunami, turbine, UK, UNIDO, United Nation, water, wind, wind power, zero-carbon
By Making It on 8 July, 2011
A small but fast-growing company based in Bihar, the poorest state in India, has perfected a system to turn rice husks into electricity, providing remote villages with clean, reliable energy
Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Acumen, agribusiness, alternative energy, Bihar, business matters, clean energy, commericial, electricity, energy access, gas, gasification, green energy, green industry, greenhouse gas, grid, Husk Power Systems, India, Industrial Development Organization, innovation, issue 6, kerosene, light source, Making It, MDG, methane, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, reliable power, remove villages, rice husks, rural, technology, UN, UNIDO, United Nations
By Making It on 31 January, 2011
The importance of renewable energy relative to conventional energy sources is clear, but to what extent is the drive to develop clean energy a preserve of developed countries?
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Argentina, biogas, biomas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Brazil, charcoal, China, clean energy, Colobia, communication, conventional, cooking, Costa Rica, developed, developing, development, dung, Ecuador, Egypt, electric grid, electricity, energy, Ethiopia, Europe, geography, Ghana, Global Wind Energy Council, heat, India, Indonesia, industry, investment, Jordan, Kenya, kerosene, Kutch wind farm, Kuwait, latin america, lighting, Making It magazine, Mexico, Middle East, moern, Morocco, North Africa, Pakistan, Peru, photovoltaics, plan, policy, pollution, power capacity, pv, remote areas, REN21, renewable energy, Renewables 2010 Global Status Report, Republic of Korea, resources, rural, services, solar, South Africa, straw, Sub-Saharan Africa, sugar-derived ethanol, sustainable, Tanzania, technology, Thailand, the Philippines, the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Tunisia, Tuvalu, UN, UNEP, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Environment Programme, Uruguay, wind power plants, wood
By Making It on 5 August, 2010
Jayati Ghosh believes that state involvement in economic activity is now imperative, and that such involvement must be more democratic and accountable
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bretton Woods, carbon-emitting production, communication, democratizing policy, developed countries, developing countries, éducation, electricity, fiscal, government, Gulf of Mexico, health, IDEAS, India, Industrial Development, industrial policy, infrastructure, International Development Economics Associates, Issue 3, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jayati Ghosh, late industrializers, monetary policy, National Knowledge Commission, New Delhi, nutrition, Quantitative Gross Domestic Product, sanitation, scales of production, stakeholders, sustainability, technology, transport, UNIDO
By Making It on 7 December, 2009
Interview with Hélène Pelosse, Interim Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Posted in All Posts, Features, Policy Brief | Tagged Abu Dhabi, Ban Ki-moon, Bangladesh, development, electricity, energy, financing, Grameen Shakti, Hélène Pelosse, India, IRENA, Morocco, production, renewable energy, UN, United Nations
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