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Peter Haas is the founder and executive director of AIDG, www.aidg.org an NGO that incubates infrastructure service providers for rural and periurban populations in developing countries and tests new green technologies for the BOP. Since founding AIDG in 2005, Peter has become an active voice for poverty issues, speaking at the World Bank, Harvard, MIT and other forums on technology, entrepreneurship and SME finance. His work with AIDG has been featured in Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, NPR and Forbes. He has served as a judge for the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet competition. He was a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2008 Waldzell Institute Architect of the Future, and a 2009 TED Global Fellow. Before founding AIDG he worked both in the information technology field and on an organic farm and horse ranch doing infrastructure improvement work. He tinkers in water systems, electrical systems, electronic systems, masonry, plumbing, biogas, irrigation, welding, metal casting and sustainable building.

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Reposting My Ted Fellows bog posts

I realized I don't have a site that holds all my ted fellows posts. I am going to repost them here and start some additional blogging.