“How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change” hit Change Observer on June 10th.  Ernest Beck does a great writeup on Catapult’s model, the trend towards social impact design, and reaching the goal of financial sustainability.

Read Catapult’s contribution to the Singapore Sessions’s “Innovating for the developing world” that hit The New Yorker in May 2010.  Catapult’s CEO joins the founder of Ashoka, Bill Drayton, Siemens, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design in the conversation.

ELLE Magazine’s May 2010 issue features 2010 Gold Awards for Sustainability, saluting the brightest ideas in energy.  Among those recognized is Catapult’s Heather Fleming for Catapult’s work with AIDG and EWB-SFP on small-scale, low-cost wind turbines for disadvantaged communities.  Also recognized:  Sheila Kennedy and Lynn Jurich for their work with solar photovoltaics.

Catapult’s Heather Fleming, Mark Summer of Inveneo, and Mike McCaffrey of Architecture for Humanity talk with Bobbie Johnson of Guardian UK’s Tech Weekly podcast on program work in developing countries.

Teju Ravilochan of the Unreasonable Institute (incubators of social enterprise) interviews Tyler Valiquette on affordable design for low-income consumers.  Catch the text from the interview here.

GOOD Magazine spends a day filming Catapult’s Wind Turbine project with Engineers Without Borders and AIDG.  The result is an incredible 3-min overview of the need, the design, and the beauty of simple engineering solutions for people in need.  Watch it here.

Triple Pundit covers Catapult in its Philanthropy in Five series focused on for-profit philanthropy.

Heather Fleming interviews with PRI’s The World on this feature on Design for the Developing World.  “Catapult Design is a resource for non-profits around the world who have technology and design obstacles that they either have limited capacity or expertise to take on themselves,” says Heather Fleming of Catapult Design…

Tyler Valiquette chats with Cat Laine from the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group about the ins and outs of the wind turbine.

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Pop!Tech announces it’s 2008 Social Innovation Fellows Program, including Heather Fleming from Catapult Design. Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellows are high potential young leaders with new approaches poised for transformational impact.  Catapult Pop!Cast:

The article that helped launch an organization, WIRED.com’s Alexis Madrigal is the first to cover the wind turbine project with Engineers Without Borders.

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Tyler, Heather and Matt McLean featured on TV12′s Your Green Life.  The featurette includes coverage of a wind turbine build session and the impact a few watts of electricity can make on people without light.