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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

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Lock Step: “A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.” Collaboration enables governments and the development sector to get and better understand data. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. Because we're becoming so dependent on product from China and other countries, it's imperative that we have more farmers. Sometimes I'll be eating, and I'll ask, "Are there organic greens?"

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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I'm going to be green. We love people that look for fair trade for the farmers overseas, and supporting a bamboo village in China. Too often policy makers and governments make it more difficult for someone to do business in their city than easier. It can be the government. It can be other government programs.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

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Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. tea fair trade green business

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind. China is the second largest producer of electronic waste in the world.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

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all the green is WhatsApp. I mean, this is an example that I’ve also faced is right now I work with a lot of organizations in China, for example, and China doesn’t have social media. So, yeah, government says work from home and all the fishermen in their house with their boats doing what? So this is.