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September 21, 2012
Barefoot Power brightens up Kenya
Smart Solar, a subsidiary of Barefoot Power is a solar lantern company which is operating in Kenya. It has so far distributed a record 300,000 lanterns and lighting kits to the rural poor in Africa. It has set its sights on Kenya as a country next, given its massive underserved […]
September 21, 2012
A solar oven that makes salt water drinkable
Driven by the issue of water scarcity in most developing nations’ rural areas, Gabriele Diamanti developed a solar cooker which would give out drinkable water. The design has won Core77 Design Award for Social Impact. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Tanzania: Solar installations in demand
In the Zanzibar villages, the concept of solar installation is of much popularity now, as villagers see and admire the success of solar lanterns and home systems installed by three women for over 80 households in the Kendwa Village in north Unguja. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Uganda: JEEP trains VHT (Village Health Team) Volunteers
JEEP, or Joint Energy and Environment Projects is an NGO based out of Uganda, and is active in the space of clean cookstoves as well. It recently held a workshop wherein it trained 79 VHT volunteers regarding topics as indoor air pollution, energy crisis, improved cookstoves, Mwoto stove, and extension […]
September 21, 2012
Himalayan cookstove project distributes cookstoves in Nepal
The US based charity The Himalayan Stove Project believes in the conservation of nature as well as helping to improve people’s health. Their mode of operation is distributing clean cookstoves to the underserved in developing countries and they recently got done distributing about 1400 clean and efficient cookstoves in Nepal. […]
September 21, 2012
GACC seeks feedback
The Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves (GACC) is seeking feedback regarding its framework to be used in Phase I of its activities so as to measure the progress achieved so far towards their set milestone of scaling the adoption of clean cookstoves to 100 million households by 2020. Read more […]
September 21, 2012
Energyflex, and innovative combustion unit technology
Energyflex cookstoves use a unique combustion unit technology (which won the energy innovation award with the US Department of Energy) and uses forest residues as fuel. Their areas of operation include Africa, Central America and South America. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Energy insecurity at the bottom of the pyramid
This post forms a second part of an informed opinion presented by the authors of this blog post. The post talks about the initiatives taken by IEA in collaboration with UNIDO, the access to modern energy initiative called “Universal Access by 2030”. It points out how ineffective this initiative, pegged […]
September 21, 2012
Sri Lanka: New microfinance act to be out soon
The LMFPA (Lanka Micro Finance Practitioners Association) being the apex body of MFIs in the country recently held an open forum with industry stakeholders like CEOs, General Managers, Directors of companies involved in microfinance activities, in order to come out with a new microfinance act for the country. Read more […]
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