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Organizations including the Charles River Clean-Up, the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, and Habitat for Humanity will collaborate on project...
...writer is a volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless shelter...
Sitting in a brightly lit classroom at the Stanford Business School three years ago, Matt Scott got to wondering what it would take to light the rest of the world. Artificial lighting may not seem a necessity like food or shelter, but 1.6 billion people around the globe lack access to electricity and the on-off switches we take for granted. Inspired by the Light Up the World Foundation, which promotes the use of energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs), Scott, now 31, traveled to India and in 2004 partnered with Amit Chugh to devise a market strategy for replacing...
...Gail Vittori means to have an impact on those hospitals. With her husband Pliny Fisk III, Vittori is co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a nonprofit design center in Austin, Texas. MaxPot, as it's known, advises institutions of all kinds--from a homeless shelter in Austin to the Pentagon as it rebuilt after Sept. 11--on how to adopt environmentally sound materials and practices. But Vittori and Fisk have a special focus on health care. Two years ago, Vittori led a committee that devised the Green Guide for Health Care, a 360-page "design tool...
...often talk about homelessness from the perspective of a large societal issue, which it is indeed. Of course there are institutional ways to deal with these issues. I applaud the students at the Harvard Square Homeless shelter and other shelters that seek to meet the needs of this population...