Industry
Industry
Clean Technology Investment in North American Hits Record High
Investment by North American venture capitalists in renewable fuels and other so-called clean technologies hit a record $933 million in the third quarter according to industry group Cleantech Venture Network LLC.
Oct 28, 2006, 8:48pm
Industry
Ten Thousand Villages Provides Fair Income to Artisans
Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed. The income artisans earn helps pay for food, education, health care, and housing.
Jan 27, 2006, 2:59pm
Industry
The Songtaaba Women’s Group
The Songtaaba Women’s Group has been transforming one of the few economic assets in Sahelian Africa controlled by women — karite butter — from a less-than-subsistence, informal-sector activity into a formalized and systematized cottage industry capable of generating not only dramatically increased incomes, but also new jobs, new skills and opportunities, and the organizational training for further expansion of women into the formal economic activities. The Songtaaba Women’s Group, is headed by its founder, Marcelline Ouédraogo. (The name Songtaaba, in the Moore language, means "to help one another."
Apr 28, 2003, 3:12pm
Industry
Development of Alternatives to Animal Use for Safety Testing and Hazard Assessment
Dialogue and cooperative efforts between industry, government regulatory agencies, academic scientists and animal protection organizations have produced a workable strategy to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals for safety testing and hazard assessment.
Apr 28, 2003, 3:02pm
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