By Charlotte Webster*
A simple but effective solar kit is helping to bring light to homes in the less-industrialised world without the choking side-effects of kerosene lamps.
About 14 per cent of Kenya is electrified, Tanzania even less at 11 and Malawi a pitiful seven. These statistics correspond directly to poverty and development.
The extensive off-grid rural areas [...]

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By Naomi Antony
Spending more on climate change research could put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk by stripping away precious global health funding, Bill Gates has said.
In his 2010 Annual Letter — the second of its kind, released last week by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation — the philanthropist warned that aid budgets may [...]

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Africa’s cement industry will for two days this April gather in one of the continent’s biggest environmental and sustainable built environment events.
The inaugural Environmental Cement Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa will identify and deliberate on issues around the environment from the African cement producers’ perspective, Demsas Faloppa, CEO of Prescon Ltd, the event’s [...]

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By Katherine Nightingale
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will release 13,500 malaria drug candidates into the public domain as part of its ‘open innovation’ agenda, it has announced.
Chief executive Andrew Witty outlined the company’s strategy for increasing its intellectual property flexibility and altering its business model to tackle neglected tropical diseases.
“We’re trying to identify a more [...]

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Successful businesses are those that plan for long-term, sustainable development, taking into account the social and environmental impacts of their activities.
This means considering the effect of every part of your business on the environment and society. Simply put, your business should have minimal negative effect on the wider world.
Taking a sustainable approach will typically be [...]

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