In August 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld opened a United Nations’ renewable-energy conference in Rome by saying that solar power was the biggest hope for poverty alleviation in […]
During the past decade the technology that creates electricity from photo-voltaic cells has become so sophisticated and so inexpensive that it’s a wonder that most of […]
“Disruption” is a word that rarely produces smiles. It can mean icy traffic jams and picnic-delaying rain storms, but also life-threatening droughts and epidemics. These are […]
The road from traditional, poisonous indoor fuels to solar lights in the developing world is turning into a highway. The staid, business-oriented Economist just did a […]
The Solar Solution September 4, 2012 Sustainable energy has always been a target of International Development Aid because of its benefit for health, poverty alleviation and […]
How Behaviour Change Works in the Developing World July 20, 2012 If real change helping people in the developing world emerge from the problems of poverty […]