November 27th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Gregory Miller, Managing Director, Investments, Google.orgToday Google launched a major R&D effort and set a lofty goal of generating a gigawatt of renewable electricity at a cost below electricity from coal-fired power plants. Google.org…
November 14th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.orgToday Senator Barack Obama visited Google as part of our Candidates@Google series. Unveiling an innovation agenda, the Senator emphasized the need to employ technology and innovation to solve the world’…
October 16th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water and Climate Adaptation Initiatives, Google.org I write from Kyoto, shrine to Japanese history and culture with eight world heritage sites, shrine to science and technology with 37 universities and colleges,…
October 16th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Chris Walker, Acumen Fund FellowInterested in joining a diverse group of young leaders from around the world who are dedicated to reducing poverty? Want to learn about the role the private sector can play in international development? Curio…
October 15th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google.org
Posted on behalf of the Google.org team by David Bercovich, Product Marketing Manager, Google, Michael Terrell, Team Member, Google.org, and Adam Borelli, Team Coordinator, Google.orgLast week the Nobel Foundation awarded Al Gore and the United Nations…
October 15th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Stacy Brown-Philpot, Director, Finance – Online Sales, GoogleIn partnership with Google.org, Technoserve recently completed the second Believe Begin Become program in Ghana, identifying 10 new winners of its annual business plan competition….
September 27th, 2007 | by Katy Bacon | published in Google.org
Posted by Linda Segre, Managing Director of Operations and Initiatives, Google.orgIn the past few months, Google.org’s family has grown exponentially, and we’re pleased to welcome a group of “Nooglers” along with a few “Not-so-New-glers”: Joining our …
September 19th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google.org
Posted by Charles Baron, Team Researcher, google.orgLast week, we had the distinct pleasure of a visit by rock legend Neil Young. Neil is touring the country in a soon-to-be converted 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV named Linc-Volt, spreading the word…
September 12th, 2007 | by Corrie | published in Google.org
Posted by Kirsten OlsenSince Google.org launched the RechargeIT initiative in June as part of our efforts to stop global warming, a lot has happened in the world of plug-in vehicles. Automakers have made key announcements about future plans for plug-in…
September 10th, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google.org
Posted by Daniel Conrad, Senior Business Analyst, GoogleJoseph Tackie is the CEO of Meaty Foods Limited, a high-end butcher in Ghana. He’s also the winner of last year’s Believe Begin Become (BBB) business plan competition (run by TechnoServe and spons…
July 23rd, 2007 | by A Googler | published in Google.org
Melissa S. Brown, Associate Director of Research, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University; Managing Editor of Giving USAIn 2006, Americans gave more than $290 billion to charity. Which sounds great, but if our country is, as some say, “the most gene…
July 21st, 2007 | by Matt Waddell | published in Google.org
Posted by Irene Taylor Brodsky, Founder, Vermilion FilmsI’m en route home from a three day shoot in Lattimore, North Carolina with a woman who contracted polio in 1948 and lives in an iron lung.In 1994, Martha Mason wrote a book called “Breath” about h…
July 2nd, 2007 | by Matt Waddell | published in Google.org
Posted by Alix Zwane, Researcher, google.orgI first got to know google.org while on a team that received one of google.org’s first grants for a joint Harvard/UC Berkeley study on cost-effective water investments in developing countries. The Millennium …
July 2nd, 2007 | by Matt Waddell | published in Google.org
Posted by Irene Taylor Brodsky, Founder, Vermilion FilmsWe were shooting our third attempt to record an “azhan,” a Muslim call to prayer, when we met Gulzar. As a woman, I haven’t been allowed into mosques, but I’ve stayed determined to somehow get my …
July 2nd, 2007 | by Matt Waddell | published in Google.org
Posted by Greg Miller, Managing Director, google.orgLast fall our team spent time talking with philanthropies and other organizations with long histories of successful interventions in the field of global public health. Considering many ideas, we talke…