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Innovative Social Enterprise Helps Farmers Use their Bicycles to Grind Grains, Charge Batteries
August 10, 2009 5 comments
Global Cycle Solutions (GCS) is a social enterprise started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US to develop and commercialize innovative, pedal-powered devices for villagers around the world, ranging from agricultural processing tools to green battery charging. GCS targets the world’s 550 million small-scale farmers living on less than $1/day.
Its first products are
