--- title: Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of description: The best vaccine you've never heard of, how green investing is surging, why the buy-one-give-one model won't change the world and more. canonical: https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T17:01:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:54.641Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 18, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 18, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**This vaccine is saving hundreds of thousands of lives. You’ve probably never heard of it.**](http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21678205-vaccine-rarely-makes-news-big-public-health-success-knockout-jab) By the Economist **2\.** [**Climate deal or no, green investment is surging.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-16/climate-spending-surges-18-in-year-before-paris-deal-planned) By Alex Morales in Bloomberg Business **3\.** [**The buy-one-give-one model can’t hide the fact that social change is hard.**](http://www.fastcompany.com/3053596/the-buy-one-give-one-model-might-make-you-feel-good-but-it-doesnt-make-the-world-better) By Cinnamon Janzer and Lauren Weinstein in Co.Exist **4\.** [**Berlin figured out how to price public housing right.**](http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/11/berlin-just-showed-the-world-how-to-keep-housing-affordable/415662/) By Feargus O’Sullivan in CityLab **5\.** [**Open your next bike lock with your thumbprint.**](http://www.psfk.com/2015/11/biometric-fingerprint-bike-lock-grasp-bike-security.html) By Jennifer Passas in PSFK  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/"},"headline":"Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of","datePublished":"2015-11-18T17:01:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:54.641Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/","keywords":["Innovation","climate","theft","vaccine"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4118058/life-saving-vaccine/","name":"Meet the Life-Saving Vaccine You've Probably Never Heard Of"}}]}] ```