Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Inventor of Kenya’s ‘MoneyMaker’ Irrigation Pumps Wins $100,000 Award
The inventor of manual irrigation pumps used by peasant farmers in Africa has won the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability.
Martin Fisher is the co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit KickStart, which develops and markets tools such as the pumps that can help small-scale rural farmers.
Nearly 62,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania and Mali are running profitable [...]
Winners of UNEP Champions of the Earth Awards 2008 Call for Urgent Action on Climate Change
Catalysts for the Global Green Economy Honored at Gala Evening in Singapore
Singapore/Nairobi, 22 April 2008 – Seven leading lights in the battle against global warming who are also catalyzing the transition to a greener and leaner global economy were today acknowledged as the 2008 Champions of the Earth.
The winners, ranging from His Serene Highness Prince [...]
