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Grantee Spotlight: RAMP India's support for innovative milk vending
February 05, 2010

February 5, 2010 –  As noted on the RAMP partner Villgro's blog, Anand Krishnaswamy, The Lemelson Foundation's consultant in India, wrote an interesting article about in innovative group in India that has created the 'Milk Tree' – a vending machine for milk for installation in apartment complexes and housing colonies in India.

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AshokaTECH Podcast with Elizabeth Hausler of Build Change
February 03, 2010

February 3, 2010 – Last Thursday the latest AshokaTECH podcast was released, featuring a timely interview with Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Elizabeth Hausler, founder of Build Change. Hausler is an expert on sustainable building practices to prevent earthquake damage.

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Annual "Invention Index" survey of perceptions about invention and innovation released
January 28, 2010

January 28, 2010 (Cambridge, Mass) - The Lemelson-MIT program released today the findings of this year's Invention Index, an annual survey that gauges American's perceptions about invention and innovation.

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Article by Lemelson Foundation Executive Director featured in Innovations
January 25, 2010

January 25, 2010 (Portland, OR) - As part of a Special Edition of Innovations for the Tech4Society: A celebration for Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows, the Foundation's Executive Director Julia Novy-Hildesley wrote one of the lead essays, in addition to pieces by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and The Economist's Matthew Bishop.

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Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Howard Weinstein featured
January 14, 2010

January 14, 2010 – Thousands of people in the developing world have been given the gift of hearing thanks to the efforts of Howard Weinstein, and now people around the globe are starting to hear more and more about Weinstein and his project, Solar Ear.

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