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And Now Light in Africa with @Dabaddo

How many times have you thought "I wish there was something I could do to help people in Africa"? Or you wished their governments would do something to help them advance?

Well, wish no more. Now you can help by empowering the wonderful people behind Dabaddo to do what they do best, which is empowering people with the proper tools to take care of themselves. They do that by bringing one of the most essential necessities to human existence for those need: ELECTRICITY.

 

She can have access to light, education, vaccines, & grow up connected

A word from Dabaddo:

About this project

DABADDO (daabaadō);

Daba – now; Ddo - light

TURN ON THE LIGHTS & CONNECT

Why do 600 million people, 70% of the population of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) live without electricity? It is not because the technology doesn’t exist or that we don’t know how to build and install it. It is because energy providers have not found a way to profitably connect them to the grid. This does not mean that those without electricity today do not desire the basics of electricity, such as lights at night or a charged cell phone, it is just that they cannot afford luxury electricity and mass consumption, which is required to make large scale grids profitable. They not only can’t afford the cost of luxury electricity; they can’t afford the appliances required to consume this electricity like washers, driers, dish washers, multiple lights, fans, air conditioners, computers, TV’s, etc…

Likewise, only 120million of nearly 1 billion people living in SSA have access to the internet (in 2012 the UN General Assembly declared access to the Internet a Universal Human Right).

YOU can fundamentally make a difference in the lives of many by supporting us get this project off the ground!  Not only will YOU have a direct local impact, but YOU will help us kickstart the only village level branded entity focused entirely on this grossly underserved population.  Our objective isn't 1 or 2 locations, but hundreds and thousands.  Everyone talked about the markets of China and India, however Africa, as a continent, has a similar population as India, but she is consuming 35% more.  We aim to bring access to the masses via first giving the masses access to the world.

[Read more here]

 

How can you help if you don't have the financial means to contribute?

You can do so simply by helping spread the word, share the links, tell your friends. Follow @Dabaddo on Twitter and Facebook.

Huge thanks in advance!

Why China is beating the US in Clean Tech

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Home Solar Power Discounts - One Block Off the Grid

International Clean Tech Fair Casablanca 2010

Building on the success of Pollutec’s trade shows in France, Algeria and in the United Arab Emirates, and under the supervision of the Secretary of State for Water and the Environment, Pollutec Maroc is set to become the number one event for environmental professionals in Morocco.

If you're in the Clean Tech Industry, this is one major investment opportunity you don't want to miss out on!

In case you haven't heard, Morocco has been making huge progress with its socioeconomic development lately, trying to improve the country's overall living conditions as well as the economy. 

As it is right now approximately 35% of its population lacks electricity, so in order to take care of that problem, Morocco is investing heavily in energy efficiency with solar and wind farms as well as hydro energy.

The other primary objective is also focusing on protecting the environment to help improve the quality of the agricultural and fishing industries, and desalinization to provide fresh water to remote areas.

For more information on Casablanca's Clean Tech Fair, please visit www.pollutec-maroc.com

On David Letterman, President Obama puts emphasis on Clean Energy for fast track to economic recovery

A couple of days after President Obama's appearance on David Letterman, people are still talking about his comments on healthcare and the fact that he claimed he was black before he became president, as an attempt to put the racial issue to rest (probably because the issue was re-ignited recently by President Carter).

 

What very few people seem to have paid attention to is Obama's comments on the state of the economy and some of his ideas on how to get it back on track.  Of course it doesn't help that CBS only made a couple of clips from that show available on Youtube and has since diligently enforced the removal of any segment that was posted by other YouTube users, but luckily someone posted some audios, probably hoping to dodge CBS's persistent suppression of information attempts.

    

Now here's the part that interests me the most....the part where the economy and CLEAN ENERGY are the focal points:

President Obama says:

 

We are not out of the woods yet....things are still fragile...most economists think that we'll start growing this quarter for the first time, but the problem that we've got, the biggest problem that we have right now, is that employment lags, so even when businesses start to invest, they don't start hiring people back right away and obviously folks are going through incredible hardship because of that loss of employment. That means that the housing market is still weaker, it means that people are still having a hard time paying their bills....

 

...even when the economy is going well, one of the great things about the US economy is it's dynamic, and so people are starting their own businesses, moving to better jobs, they're deciding to move to another state in search of other opportunities, so there is always turnover in terms of employment.  The problem right now, we lost so many jobs over the last year and a half....I mean when I came into office we were losing 700 jobs a month!  And what ends up happening then is, that trying to make up for all those losses in the last year is going to take some time, we're going to have to grow in a much faster clip...

 

(4:50) ...the single most important task for my administration and my economic advisers is how we make sure that we put people back to work...now there is some areas like for example Clean Energy, that has huge potential!  Every building all across the United States probably could use some retrofitting to make it much more energy efficient.  Doing that, that one thing, could put hundreds of thousands of people back to work and that's why we emphasize things such as Clean Energy.

YAY for Clean Energy!

Hang in there folks...

Tired of the boring old blue solar panels on your home? Try Solar Ivy

Melding design with technology, Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology or SMIT, the brother-and-sister start-up out of Brooklyn, N.Y., is developing a miniature solar panel system that, once interconnected, takes the form of ivy sitting on the sides of buildings.

More on SMIT here

Will You Get Seduced By These Solar Beauties?

OK, maybe you don't find these solar goodies all that irresistible anyway, but perhaps if you look at them long enough they'll start to grow on you eventually.

And maybe the whole Solar concept sounds kind of alien to you right now, but if you think of it as a clean and wholesome source of energy handed to you straight from the sun in order to make free electricity, which could possibly last you a lifetime with minimal investment, then maybe...umm...

I guess that still doesn't do it for you, but there comes a day when a light will go on...or off in your head and make you realize all the money you could have saved or made, if you had paid attention sooner to all the amazing practical purposes of buying into solar.  Hopefully when that time comes for you, solar still hasn't gone mainstream and there is still time for you to profit from it in a big way and make a significant difference in your life.

Solar Trees via AT Casa

O*GE» Solar Powered Night Garden (<~click to see more & scroll down on the left side )

 

Inhabitat » Solar Sunflower Field Energizes Austin, Texas

Inhabitat » Sleek Solar and Wind Powered Hybrid Street Lamps

Solar flowers announce the launch of the new Toyota Prius | Cherryflava

Inhabitat » Solar Forest Charging System for Parking Lots

Solar-Cell Tree Charger by vivien MULLER design: PhotonSynthese

Well, these solar-tree darlings may grow pretty someday, but they're pretty practical as it is and that's what really counts....via Solar Feeds