World’s first solar-powered hydrogen development takes homes 100% off-grid.

Join us:facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty World’s first solar-powered hydrogen development takes homes 100% off-grid. An innovative off-grid housing development in Chiang Mai, Thailand has set a new milestone in the journey towards greener and more sustainable living. Developed by CNX Construction and owned by Sebastian-Justus Schmidt, the Phi Suea House is powered entirely by a solar-hydrogen system — a world’s first for energy storage […]

What Does It Take To Eradicate A Disease? Just Ask India.

Join us : facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty What Does It Take To Eradicate A Disease? Just Ask India. As a train pulls into Moradabad, India, it is swarmed by groups of volunteers in bright yellow vests. From outside the cars, the volunteers — from India and all over the world — begin reaching through windows and grasping at […]

Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color.

Join us: facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color. Brighton Park is a predominantly Latino community on the southwest side of Chicago. It’s a neighborhood threatened by poverty, gang violence, ICE raids, and isolation—in a city where income, race, and zip code can determine access to jobs, schools, healthy food, and essential services. It […]

India’s preference for sons has created a nation of tiny people.

Join us: facebook.com/earthwithoutpoverty India’s preference for sons has created a nation of tiny people. Indian children are among the shortest in the world, and the country’s preference for sons might be to blame. Globally, one in four children under the age of five is stunted—that is, they grew at a slower rate than a healthy […]

Stop Donating Cans to Food Banks – Here’s Why.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Stop Donating Cans to Food Banks – Here’s Why. It’s one of the most cherished practices of the holiday season, and it may also be unwittingly robbing resources from some of our most important charities. You’ve seen it at the office. You’ve seen it at the library. You’ve seen it at your […]

Bill Gates Makes an additional $5 Billion donation.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Bill Gates Makes an additional $5 Billion donation. Bill Gates made his largest single gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft Corp. shares that accounted for 5 percent of his fortune, the world’s biggest. The billionaire donated 64 million of the software maker’s shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates […]

Orphans, child trafficking & the manufactured adoption epidemic going on in India.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Orphans, child trafficking & the manufactured adoption epidemic going on in India. How would you react as an adoptive parent living in a foreign land if you found out that the Indian baby you had adopted many years ago, with “proper” paper work, was actually a trafficked child? More importantly, imagine how […]

When disaster relief brings anything but relief.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty When disaster relief brings anything but relief. When Nature grows savage and angry, Americans get generous and kind. That’s admirable. It might also be a problem. “Generally after a disaster, people with loving intentions donate things that cannot be used in a disaster response, and in fact may actually be harmful,” said […]

India Isn’t Doing Enough To Fix Its Massive Inequality Problem.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty India Isn’t Doing Enough To Fix Its Massive Inequality Problem. India ranks 132nd out of 152 countries on a new index that measures the commitment by a country towards reducing inequality, the advocacy group Oxfam said on Monday. Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Germany topped the rankings. The Commitment to Reducing Inequality […]

Peru Provides Free Solar Power to 2 Million of its Poorest Residents.

Join us: fb.com/earthwithoutpoverty Peru Provides Free Solar Power to 2 Million of its Poorest Residents. Peru has initiated a program that will provide more than 2 million of its poorest residents with electricity — for free. ‘The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program’ began on July 8, when 1,601 solar panels were installed in the Contumaza […]