In the lead up to the 2012 Sankalp Forum, please find the following interview with Vinay Jaju, co-founder of ONergy and a panelist at the Forum. Punam Energy Pvt Ltd (ONergy) is an renewable energy enterprise established in Kolkata (2009), led by a strong mission to provide solar energy to 1 million lives by 2016. [...]

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Its rapidly increasing middle class is putting evermore pressure on the country’s resources. Despite this growth, India is still home to one-third of the world’s poor. This combination of factors calls for swift action of smart minds to offer innovative solutions to the needs [...]

ThinkChange India is pleased to once again act as a media partner with the Khemka Foundation for the upcoming Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The Khemka Foundation’s annual forums on social entrepreneurship are designed to create an ecosystem, a community of sorts for all the players in the field. Every year, social entrepreneurs, investors, academics, [...]

The Global Social Benefit Incubator is holding an event in August and sent along this invitation for TC-I readers: Please join Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society for business plan presentations by the 2010 Global Social Benefit Incubator entrepreneurs from around the world. Thursday, August 26, 2010 Locatelli Center at Santa Clara [...]

In June 2008, we wrote about Husk Power Systems in relation to how it is one example of the type of ventures that are capitalizing on the fact that India is a prime nation for renewable energy innovations and adoption. The beautiful simplicity of the technology uses rice husks to create a distributed, sustainable source [...]

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Nextbillion.net recently published a great interview with C. K. Prahalad on the role of private enterprise in development and poverty alleviation. Prahalad is the author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid and one of the pioneers of the idea of BOP (the 4 billion people living [...]

The Centre for Development Finance (CDF) announces some very exciting internship opportunities for this summer.  If you’re looking for something more long term, word has it that CDF will likely be releasing postings for BoP related full time positions in the coming weeks… check back for more information! Total Immersion Programme in Finance and Development [...]

Top posts from the past week: Prerna talked about the flourishing gay-lesbian scene in Bangalore She also touched on a new venture using rice husks for renewable energy Shital highlighted a few activities in India around World Environment Day Reaching into the archives: Vinay’s op-ed on microfinance and the “missing middle” provides a critical look [...]

India has been found to be particularly fertile ground for experimentation with renewable energy initiatives. The latest version of Ernst & Young’s “Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index” reaffirms this fact, ranking India as the third most attractive market for renewable energy investment: India’s rise to third overall … has been precipitated by excellent national and [...]

Top posts: Prerna’s op-ed on income generation for women Shital’s post on a promising model for ecotourism Vinay’s feature of the pot-in-pot Reaching into the archives: A few months ago, Santhosh featured SELCO, a company focusing on renewable energy that is trying to scale up, and its founder Harish Hande, who has continued to receive [...]