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• 11/15/10 New York Times Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits
• 11/19/10 New York Times Green Strategies for the Poorest
• 11/18/10 Clean Technica LifeStraw to Get Carbon Offset Funds for Cleaning Water
• 2/18/11 Climate Central Carbon Markets for Developing Countries
• 3/1/11 The Gold Standard The Gold Standard Registers the Largest CER and VER Projects to Date
• 4/6/11 West FM Kenya LifeStraw
• 4/8/11 co2balance.com Women Deliver and VF Announce Competition for Women Bloggers
• 4/8/11 Women Deliver Women Deliver & VF Announce Competition
• 4/11/11 ABC Getting Clean Water for Free Through Carbon Credits
• 4/20/11 Business Daily Swiss water firm taps Kenya’s carbon market
• 4/25/11 Fast Company Fighting Water-Borne Disease In Africa, And Making Millions In The Process
• 4/26/11 SF Chronicle Vestergaard Frandsen Starts Voluntary Carbon Project in Kenya
• 4/27/11 Star One million homes get clean drinking water (pdf)
• 4/27/11 Standard Rocking to the beat (pdf)
• 4/27/11 Standard Water programme launched (pdf)
• 4/30/11 Medical Kenya Safe Drinking Water For Western Kenya
• 5/2/11 Financial Post Four million rural Kenyans get safe drinking water
• 5/3/11 Nation Water project aims to earn carbon credits (pdf)
• 5/6/11 Sustainable Business Forum In Kenya, Vestargaard Frandsen is Saving Lives with Carbon Credits
• 5/6/11 Reuters How Carbon Credits are Saving Lives in Kenya
• 5/7/11 Standard Wonder water filtering gadget set to save lives in Western Province
• 5/6/11 All Voices Thousands of Ugandans To Breathe Easier Thanks to LifeStraw "Carbon For Water" Program on Kenyan Border
• 5/7/11 Canadian Broadcasting Channel A Story of Hope in Rural Kenya
• 5/8/11 INDEX: Award LifeStraw Reduces CO2, Saves Lives and Makes Money
• 5/9/11 Africa Science News Service New project could reduce infant mortality in Western Kenya
• 5/9/11 Africa Science News Service Carbon, technology meet to fight common African illnesses
• 5/11/11 JPtv Dansk firma bytter CO2 til rent vand
• 5/12/11 Standard How Carbon Credits Will Save Lives in Western Kenya
• 5/16/11 Quo Agua a cambio de CO2: Bonos de carbono en Kenia
• 5/16/11 FyensStiftstidende Business og velgørenhed hånd i hånd (pdf)
• 5/16/11 East African Business Week Kenyans get safe water
• 5/17/11 EDIE Carbon for water deal begins in Kenya
• 5/17/11 ABC News Kenya, 900mila filtri per l'acqua in cambio di crediti di carbonio, 15:14
• 5/18/11 Politiken Danske filtre sikrer 4 millioner
• 5/23/11 ABC News LifeStraw: Kenyans receiving clean water through carbon credits
• 5/24/11 ABC News Getting Access to Clean Water for Free in Kenya
• 5/27/11 Gizmag LifeStraw Family to produce clean water and reduce carbon emissions
• 5/25/11 World Challenge European company earns carbon credits by investing in clean water for rural Kenyans
• 6/13/11 HORIZON Solutions Close to One Million Water Filters Delivered to Rural Kenyans in Lifestraw® "Carbon For Water" Program
• 6/15/11 Voice of America Water Filter Project in Africa Gets Technology Boost
• 6/15/11 Alertnet Water filter campaign aims to cut emissions in W. Kenya
• 6/17/11 Voice of America Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya with Clean Water
• 6/17/11 Investors Business Daily Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya with Clean Water
• 6/28/11 TreeHugger.com Profit For Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
• 6/29/11 Reuters Kenyan water project an all-in-one effort to save lives
• 6/29/11 NTD Television Kenyan Water Project An Effort to Save Lives
• 6/30/11 Agencia Global de Informacion Donan Cerca De UN Millon De Filtros De Agua En Kenya
• 6/30/11 Physorg Kenya project: making safer water to sell carbon credits
• 7/1/11 CNN Global Public Square Cleaning water and air for profit
• 7/11/11 Business Africa Carbon credits provide water for all (pdf)
• 7/18/11 MENAFN Citizens Get Safe Water
• 8/4/11 Columbia Journalism Review LifeStraw Coverage Divided
• 8/11/11 Yahoo! Canada Water filters saving lives, reducing CO2 emissions in Kenya
• 9/1/11 Global Health TV LifeStraw in Kenya
• 9/26/11 New York Times LifeStraw Saves Those Without Access to Clean Drinking Water
• 9/27/11 Trust The Word on Women - For Women, A Big Week In New York
• 10/5/11 Triple Pundit Carbon Financing Program Provides Clean Drinking Water in Kenya
• 11/4/11 Oikos Not here to charge for a basic human right - Profit for a purpose in providing access to clean water in Kenya
• 11/4/11 PERC Reports Carbon for water
• 11/9/11 Singularity Hub LifeStraw Brings Clean Water To Almost One Million In Kenya
• 1/9/12 Blue Living Ideas LifeStraw, an Easy-to-Use, Personal Water Filter That Saves Lives for Only $5
• 1/16/12 Big Think Technology For a Cause
• 3/9/12 Reuters Africa Clean water project in Africa gets carbon credits
• 3/9/12 Financial Times Kenya water clean-up coup for Swiss company [pdf]
• 3/9/12 News Day Clean water project in Africa gets carbon credits
• 3/9/12 Bloomberg JPMorgan Buys Emission Credits From Kenya Water Filters
• 3/11/12 Financial Times Business to play a big role in green economy at next Rio conference [pdf]
• 3/13/12 Treehugger How Carbon Offsets Can Help Provide Clean Water for All
• 3/14/12 Carbon Finance Online Pioneering carbon-for-water project eyes major expansion [pdf]
• 3/15/12 Environmental Finance Carbon financiers eye donors as new source of finance
• 5/14/12 Newstime Africa Western Kenyan project earns first carbon credits
• 6/3/12 JustMeans Carbon for Water: A New Sustainable Finance Model Saves Lives and the Environment
• 6/6/12 Danone Down to Earth “Carbon for Water”, or how to create a smart business among the poor
• 6/11/12 TriplePundit Carbon Offsets from Wind and Clean Cookstoves Increased in 2011
• 6/12/12 Deutsche Welle Saving the climate with clean water
• 6/21/12 ClimateCare Jaguar Land Rover supports its 50th carbon reduction project
• 8/22/12 Edie Sustainable Business magazine and edie.net join forces with ClimateCare to offset carbon emissions with the award winning Carbon for Water project
• 11/6/12 Business Green Exclusive: UN chief urges Obama to renew climate efforts
• 11/8/12 Daily Nation United Nations hails western Kenya water project
• 11/19/12 2degrees Carbon for Water: A smart business approach to sustainable development
• 11/20/12 University of Oxford Award-winning programme uses carbon credits to deliver safe water in Kenya
• 11/27/12 IISD Momentum for Change: Recognizing Climate Action on the Ground
• 11/29/12 The Guardian Straw poll finds in favour of western Kenya's water and carbon solution
• 12/5/12 Daily Nation Kenya water project praised at climate talks
• 12/12/12 New York Times Moving Forward in Tough Times
• 1/11/13 Stanford Global Health Innovation Insight Series Carbon For Water: Sustainable Funding for a Public Health Intervention

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