Catching Waves and Turning Them Into Electricity
New York Times April 22, 2015 MELBOURNE, Australia — Off the coast of Western Australia, three big buoys floating beneath the ocean’s surface look like giant jellyfish tethered to the […]
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Bangladesh’s Garment Factories Upgrade After Inspections
NPR News (National Public Radio) January 17, 2015 In April 2013, the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,100 workers employed in the garment factories in the building. Now […]
Airlines Fly the Skies on a Sugar High
New York Times October 7, 2014 The red-and-white Boeing 737 looked like any other plane on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport. But on a clear day last July, the […]
Bangladesh’s Chance to Get It Right
New York Times, Fixes April 23, 2014 Bangladesh is hardly known for its workplace safety. But one unlikely success story can be found in a leading shipbuilding company called Western […]
India Increases Effort to Harness Biomass Energy
New York Times October 9, 2013 GHANAUR, India — THE hulking power plant set against the green countryside of Punjab state in northwest India does not look like a source of renewable […]
Filling India’s Huge Need for Vocational Training
International Herald Tribune June 3, 2013 Millions of youths seek practical instruction in market-friendly skills GHAZIABAD, India: In a simple classroom above a storefront on a bustling street, four young men […]
Conservation Pays Off for Bangladeshi Factories
International Herald Tribune March 22, 2012 DHAKA, Bangladesh — At the factories of DBL Group, one of the largest Bangladeshi textile and garment makers, tons of fluffy imported cotton are […]
Microhydro Drives Change in Rural Nepal
International Herald Tribune June 20, 2012 BAGLUNG, NEPAL — In Rangkhani, a remote mountain village in western Nepal, a 12- hour walk on steep dirt roads from Baglung, the district’s […]
Lonely Planet’s Ambassador
The Wall Street Journal April 26, 2011 Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, sits in the lobby of an austere five-star hotel here. Soft-spoken and down-to-earth, the 64-year-old wears a […]
India Re-invents its Vibrant Colors
Christian Science Monitor February 23, 2012 Although a traditional craft, block printing’s survival is in fact entwined with globalization. In the 1960s and ’70s, Western designers who followed the “hippie […]
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