Wana Energy Solutions is moving Ugandans away from charcoal and wood to liquid gas, which requires less time, costs less money, and sharply reduces indoor air pollution and all of the attendant health risks.
Nate BeardAugust 22, 2014
French entrepreneurs engineering new fuel sources with biomass briquettes look to scale their startup to save costs and forests in Uganda.
Nate BeardAugust 19, 2014
A Dutch entrepreneur is giving girls in Kenya the means to be confident by developing a local industry and keeping girls in school.
Nate BeardAugust 18, 2014
A Ugandan-American couple takes a gamble on passion fruit farming and ends turning 1,500 girls and young women into small business owners.
Nate BeardAugust 15, 2014
How one Ugandan doctor's near-death experience prompted him to create a new healthcare model for his country.
Nate BeardAugust 14, 2014
Mother and entrepreneur, Carol Kimari, is creating interactive libraries in Kenya for kids.
Nate BeardAugust 13, 2014
The harrowing personal story that prompted Basant Motawi to launch her Cairo-based venture, Aspire, which combats sexual assault in Egypt.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 30, 2014
https://vimeo.com/99292387 On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium…
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 29, 2014
With feed prices accounting for up to 70 percent of Nigerian chicken farmers' overhead, a simple move to UNFIRE feed can mean a 35 percent reduction in overall costs.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 28, 2014
Russian startup Plastica recycles 10 percent of all plastic waste in the million-person city of Volgograd, Russia, where it is based, and turns that plastic into enough bricks, paving tiles, and roof tiles for four homes per month.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 25, 2014
Ustvarjalnik brings entrepreneurs to high school classrooms and engages students with open-ended assignments aimed at solving real-world challenges. (One example: "Go get your picture taken with the mayor.")
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 24, 2014
Watch Yellow Leaf Hammocks co-founder Joe Demin talk about the 600-mile taxi ride that led to his company, which is creating sustainable jobs for Thailand's hill tribe communities—by selling some of the most comfortable hammocks in the world!
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 23, 2014
The fifth Unreasonable Institute has come and gone. We have since synthesized what we learned and are already sharpening our offerings for our next few programs. Here's a look at what we learned and what we need to improve.
Teju RavilochanJuly 23, 2014
Rising Tide Carwash co-founder and COO Tom D'Eri explains how his company has made a competitive advantage out of the fact that 80 percent of its workforce has autism.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 22, 2014
Unreasonable Institute fellow Divya Yachamaneni, deputy general manager of Naandi Community Water Services, explains how her company is bringing clean drinking water to rural Indian families for less than $2 per month. NCWS’s low-cost water-purification stations are now in more than 400 villages, delivering clean, safe drinking water to about 600,000 people.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 21, 2014
Source International provides scientists and scientific tools to communities threatened by waste and pollution from natural-resource extraction. With the resulting data, communities been able to press for compensation.
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 18, 2014
https://vimeo.com/98962022 On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, more than 1,000 people packed an auditorium…
Unreasonable InstituteJuly 17, 2014