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By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:34 PM ET

How to clean up your pollution and improve your highways at the same time. Read More

More like this in: The New York Times, India, Pollution, Film, Beaches, Asphalt

By Katherine Gustafson | Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:23 PM ET

In the UK, Giving Nation Awards for Excellence honor secondary students who are giving back. Read More

More like this in: World Vision, Charity, Schools, India, High School, Grammar

By Katherine Gustafson | Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:31 PM ET

The new Global Technology and Innovation Fund will help Muslim-majority countries get tech savvy. Read More

More like this in: Technology, Business, Science, Grants, The Huffington Post, Egypt, Investment

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:56 AM ET

A Gates Foundation-funded study by University of California researchers will test alternative methods to save children from diarrheal diseases. Read More

More like this in: Health, California, Water, Kenya, Death, University of California, World Health Organization, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF), Bangladesh, Hygiene, Water Quality

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:46 AM ET

The org Video Volunteers is on the leading edge of the next social change revolution: giving the poor a voice for change via digital media. Read More

More like this in: Education, India, YouTube, Television, Asia, Film, mtv, Entrepreneurship, Cameras, Domestic Violence, Third World and Developing Countries, Social entrepreneurship

By Caroline Walker | Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:52 AM ET

Tonic unveils the Sūtra Scarf, hand-made cashmere designs featuring celebrity words of wisdom. Be chic, all while helping to build a new women's center in India. Read More

More like this in: Scarlett Johansson , David Bowie, India, Nepal, Queen Latifah

By David Bois | Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:28 PM ET

Waste paper is transformed into a source of heating fuel in Haiti, providing jobs, hope, and relief for the nation's beleaguered forests. Read More

More like this in: Recycling, Poverty, Haiti, Deforestation, Scientific American

By Katherine Gustafson | Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:12 AM ET

The world's woman grow over half the food but own only 2 percent of the land. The Rural Development Institute's new center aims to fix that. Read More

More like this in: Clinton Global Initiative, Africa, India, China, Poverty, United Nations, Asia, Agriculture, Farming, Women, Sub-Saharan Africa, Farmers

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 9, 2009 12:32 PM ET

National Ethical Investment Week helps Brits do well and do good at the same time. Read More

More like this in: Non-Profit, Money, Nonprofit, Sustainable Development, Investment

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:19 PM ET

The World Health Organization, UNICEF and GAVI Alliance aim to reduce child pneumonia deaths by 65 percent from 2000 levels. Read More

More like this in: UNICEF, Health, Children, Death, World Health Organization, Vaccines