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		<title>Lotus Energy Impact: Solar Schoolhouse, Nepal</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/31/lotus-energy-impact-solar-schoolhouse-nepal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having huge potential sources of renewable energy, Nepal has only been able to light the houses of 40% of its population. Just 100 kms from the capital, Kathmandu, lies Dumja village in Sindupalchowk district which remains unconnected to the national electric grid.  An example of a “self made village,” the villagers toiled during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intern&#8217;s Reflections from the Field: Solar Markets in Central America</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/26/interns-reflections-from-the-field-solar-markets-in-central-america/</link>
		<comments>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/26/interns-reflections-from-the-field-solar-markets-in-central-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marcos Mancini and I, Rebecca Martin, completed our summer internship at E+Co’s regional office in Latin America in San Jose, Costa Rica.  We are graduate students at the Erb Institute at The University of Michigan pursuing a dual degree from the Business School and the School of Natural Resources.  The projects we worked on were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Math! The Answer is Gas</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/23/do-the-math-the-answer-is-gas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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On a recent visit to the E+Co Tanzania office in Dar-es-Salaam, Monitoring &#38; Evaluation Officer Elizabeth Ngoye and I visited E+Co portfolio company, Afrozone.  Afrozone, founded by former BP Director Abraham Mwalwega, is a distributor of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), which is used in place of charcoal for cooking.  Since 2009, Afrozone has sold a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From the Field: Clean Energy Benefits Experienced in Nicaraguan Homes</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/20/notes-from-the-field-clean-energy-benefits-experienced-in-nicaraguan-homes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Charlotte Foote, a 10-year old adventurer from Boston who traveled deep into the northern Nicaraguan bush last month to meet smallholder farmers and their families. Her father William Foote, Founder and CEO of Root Capital, shared with us a letter from Yarilecsa, a young girl whose family received a loan from their coop (financed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronicles of an E+Co Intern</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/17/chronicles-of-an-eco-intern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer 2009: I discover E+Co while researching low carbon economy transition pathways for a think tank in Paris. As a student at Sciences Po, I had been drilled with the 3 pillars of “sustainable development”: social, environmental, economic, and bingo! Here was an organization that had been delivering these 3 indicators across the globe for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E+Co and PowerSource MicroGrid Operations (PMO) Philippines Expand Partnership</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/16/eco-and-powersource-microgrid-operations-pmo-philippines-expand-partnership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christine Eibs Singer, CEO of E+Co and Frederick E. LaCroix, CEO of PowerSource MicroGrid Operations (PMO), recently announced an expansion of an existing partnership with a $1.1 million investment by E+Co in PMO-Liminangcong, in Northern Palawan, Philippines.
PMO, the Philippines subsidiary of US-based The PowerSource Group LLC, is implementing a business model to catalyze rural electrification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Opportunity: Fund Manager, E+Co &#8211; Asia Equity Fund</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/13/job-opportunity-fund-manager-eco-asia-equity-fund/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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E+Co is a pioneer Impact Investor in the clean energy sector. Since 1998, E+Co has invested in more than 250 small and growing clean energy ventures in emerging economies around the world. The ventures and entrepreneurs backed by E+Co have served more than 6.2 million people with access to clean energy, reduced carbon dioxide emissions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Affirmation</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/11/daily-affirmation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I arrived at New York’s Penn Station this morning for my daily commute to E+Co’s New Jersey office, Amtrak was experiencing signal problems accompanied by lengthy delays .  My stride weakened as I made my way to NJ Transit, realizing that the slow down would likely seize these trains as well.  I sighed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times &#8220;Green&#8221; Blog Highlights Selco Solar</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/10/new-york-times-green-blog-highlights-selco-solar/</link>
		<comments>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/10/new-york-times-green-blog-highlights-selco-solar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Enterprise News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times &#8220;Green&#8221; Blog recently referenced the achievements of E+Co&#8217;s portfolio company, SELCO &#8211; India (Selco Solar), in Jim Witkin&#8217;s article, &#8220;For the World&#8217;s Ills, &#8216;Trickle Up&#8217; Solutions&#8221;. Witkin explains that clean-tech innovations &#8220;serving the needs of consumers at the base of the economic pyramid&#8221; are proving to be beneficial starting points for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Low-Income Countries on a Fast Track to Low-Carbon Prosperity?</title>
		<link>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/06/are-low-income-countries-on-a-fast-track-to-low-carbon-prosperity/</link>
		<comments>http://eandco.net/blog/2010/08/06/are-low-income-countries-on-a-fast-track-to-low-carbon-prosperity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Van Der Jagt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post on the Green Futures blog asks “whether low-income countries are on a fast track to low-carbon prosperity.” From E+Co’s perspective, the answer is, “absolutely.” When countries like Tanzania and Cambodia boast electrification rates of less than 20%, that creates a huge opportunity to introduce market-rate energy products directly to off-grid communities. And [...]]]></description>
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