Post Tagged 'Bangalore'

December 09, 2014

Gleaner Tech #3: Discarded Laptop Batteries Keep Lights On for Poor

[Note: See this introduction post for an explanation of gleaner technology.] Forty percent of the world’s population, including a significant portion of the rural and urban poor sections of the population in India, does not have access to reliable electricity supply. Continue Reading...

January 13, 2014

Letter from Bangalore: Equality is God, and Compassion is its Prophet

I’ve just returned from Bangalore, where I attended a conference on “Bounds of Ethics in a Globalized World” at Christ University, which is run by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, the first Catholic religious order started in India. Continue Reading...