The Do-Good Imperative


	The Do-Good Imperative

wildcat

7-14-2008 7:22 AM

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do-good, imperativetech products

wildcat says:

How about a windup flashlight crossed with a cell phone charger? It's low tech meets high tech with rugged, toylike charm. Or charcoal made from plant waste instead of wood, developed for Haiti by MIT's D-Lab? Talk about a greener way to barbecue. (The technology might also help save endangered African gorillas. A new study published in Science links organized crime rings cutting trees for charcoal in Congo with a spate of recent gorilla murders.)

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7-14-2008 11:59 PM

mugofcoffee

excellent clip WC!

12-21-2008 8:34 PM

David Anttony

These guys are doing super great and now that they have started selling their laptops to public that was such a smart idea and doing Buy One Give One giving - literally. Many businesses cannot afford to do literal 'Buy One Give One' transaction-based giving so instead they can do this through the Buy1GIVE1 organisation. At www.Buy1-Give1Free.com any business can set up doing Buy1GIVE1 for any product or service anywhere in the world - it's amazing and simple. They started recently and have over 550 projects online now you can support starting from just 1c per transaction. So for example now a coffee shop could provide clean drinking water to a child for a day from the sale os a cup of coffee...

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