Learn how breakthroughs in clean technology can take us to new heights with the explorers who broke the record for the world’s longest solo flight using only solar energy. As it happened 06:40 UTC Welcome to day 4 Good morning, and welcome to the fourth and final day of our Annual Meeting in As it …
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting and patron sponsor of the International Year of Light¹, is ramping up its portfolio of solar lighting solutions with the launch of Philips LifeLight, a new new zero-energy, solar-powered LED lighting range designed for homes in off-grid rural and semi-urban …
When most students are on Facebook, they aren’t trying to advance awareness of post-earthquake Haiti. Fewer still are designing and coordinating a project to bring clean water to communities within the country. However, for a group of students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), that is exactly what they do. The living conditions in Haiti are …
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On December 13-14, 2011, a partnered team from Illinois Institute of Technology, Green Wifi, and Inveneo worked together to bring solar-powered Internet connectivity to the EFACAP school in Lascahobas, Haiti. Thanks to funding from an Internet Society Community grant, this team first established a long distance Internet connection to the school, and then set up …
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Alex Lizzappi‘s insight: Needless to say that if primary and secondary education was similarly privatized in the industrialized world we would experience higher illiteracy rates. Access to education and quality education in a sovereign nation are the result of political and fiscal policy. Most nations rich in natural resources are economically poor with weak …
