Remember back in the early days of the web when the New York Times actually listed relevant links at the bottom of their news articles? I’m not making this up, am I? They used to have links, right? Well, I really missed them after reading Dot-Com Saviors, Tilting at the World’s Ills, which was, strangely, stuffed into the Fashion & Style section. The article discusses good causes that survivors of the dot com bust have taken on. I had to find the links myself so here they are:

The Sapling Foundation which bought the rights to the TED Conference where most of these items where demonstrated.

Dean Kamen and his portable water purifier, which has a Stirling engine. He’s looking to distribute it in Africa.

Energy Innovations from Bill Gross’s Idealab, which is making solar collectors.

The Acumen Fund: “pioneering new ways to invest charitable contributions in innovations that promise breakthrough products and services to improve the lives of the poor internationally.”

ApproTEC: Appropriate Technology is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. Their “MoneyMaker” pumps are allowing small-scale farms in Africa to succeed with micro-irrigation.

Room to Read provides books, libraries and schools to poor Asian countries. They’ve built 33 schools and 400 school libraries, and provided 200,000 books and 122 scholarships.