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Joseph and Neema, a local manager and sales agent for Mobisol, a solar energy company that's receiving support to grow their business from UK aid - in return for helping provide solar electricity to some of Tanzania's poorest people.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Driving around Monterey in the BMW Hydrogen 7.
The liquid hydrogen tank is in the trunk (at -418°F), and a H2 button on the steering wheel switches the V12 engine between hydrogen and gasoline.
BMW intends to release it as a limited production 7-Series. It looked pretty polished to me, but I noticed a slight lag when flooring it on hydrogen.
Elizabeth Mukwimba is a 62-year-old Tanzanian woman who now has solar lighting and a cleaner cookstove in her home thanks to schemes backed by UK aid.
Elizabeth has had an M-Power solar panel and lights fitted in her home by Off Grid Electric, a private sector company dedicated to providing sustainable, affordable energy to people in developing countries who aren't connected to the electricity grid.
It means that Elizabeth now has lighting at home at night, which means she doesn't have to buy expensive kerosene. The money she's saved already has helped her put a new tin roof on her house. It also means her grandchildren can read and do their homework in the evening.
She also has a 'clean cookstove', as seen in this picture. These cookstoves provide a safer, more durable and energy efficient means of cooking as opposed to traditional open fire cooking. The ceramic, metal-encased design means that much smaller amounts of wood or charcoal are needed, thus reducing the amount of time and money people need to spend on procuring fuel. The design is therefore also much healthier, producing much less smoke or carbon monoxide.
"I feel much better because of the solar lighting and the cookstove", says Elizabeth.
"Before, I sometimes had to choose between buying vegetables to eat, or buying kerosene to light the lamps with at night. Sometimes we used to have to rely just on matches for lighting in the dark.
"But now I'm not having to buy kerosene and the cookstove uses much less fuel, so I'm saving money and not worrying so much about how to provide for my family. It means I can start to save money to hopefully build a new house in the future".
In less than 2 years, Off Grid Electric has installed solar power systems in over 22,000 homes across Tanzania, meaning many more people now have access to cheap, renewable electricity - a vital step forward in a country where less than 14% of the population are connected to the electricity grid.
The Tanzania Improved Cook Stoves programme, implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV, aims to provide improved cooking facilities for 45,000 people in Tanzania's Lake Zone region by 2017. 28,500 people have already benefitted.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.
e were honored to host Mr. Vipul Patel, a prominent greentech entrepreneur and industrialist from JVS Comatsco, India, who was visiting Stockholm and Sweden in search of green solutions. His insights and experiences shared were precious. Thank you.
The focus and interest was on energy solutions such as storage, solar thermal, water, and waste-to-energy solutions, as well as discussions around Food and Agtech next-generation systems such as nanophotonics.
There were visits to innovation hubs such as Norrsken House and the Smart City Sweden showcase in Hammarby Sjöstad, corporate visits, and a brilliant session with Pär Larshans and Ragnsells.
Your cleantech and impact solutions could play a significant role in the Indian market. We invite you to connect and explore potential collaborations. A business-focused visit is scheduled from the end of July to the beginning of August.
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The 2009 National Clean Energy Summit brings together high-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, will gather in Nevada for a day-long summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This year’s summit will bring together the nation’s top minds including former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, energy executive T. Boone Pickens, White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor Van Jones, Nevada State AFL-CIO executive Danny Thompson, and many others to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future.
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Sanderson is a farmer from Kenya who's now managing a large farm outside Arusha in Tanzania. The farm he runs has 300 cattle producing milk, as well as a coffee plantation and other crops.
His farm had a biogas system installed last year, so now all the manure waste from the cows goes into producing bio-gas, which provides all the fuel they need for cooking meals for all of the farm workers. The slurry by-product of the biogas is used for fertilising their crops as well, which has led to better quality soil and increased harvests.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Mecktilda and Stefano became local agents for Global Cycle Solutions, a solar energy provider, in their village near Mwanza, Tanzania, last year. They bought one sample solar lighting kit for 100,000 Tanzanian schillings (about £30). They then persuaded others in their community to buy the kits, and with each sale they make a small commission. They've now sold over 200 solar kits, and are earning enough money to cover their children's school fees. They now plan to build a separate building next door to their house to use as a shop to sell the solar kits from.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
When we were cutting across Ohio on the way back from my Dad's house, we "found" this nuclear facility in the middle of farmland. I can't pass nuclear reactors without stopping to take pictures. Despite the way it looks, I did not Photoshop the steam/smoke or the reactors in this image.
Mark Dunlea from 350 NYC at From Paris to New York: A People's Agenda for Preventing Climate Change
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Post Rock Wind Project, Lincoln and Ellsworth Counties, Kansas near Salina, Kansas.
"The Post Rock Wind Project is a 201 megawatt (MW) project located approximately 80 miles outside Wichita, Kansas, in Lincoln and Ellsworth Counties. . . . It [utilizes] 134 General Electric (GE) 1.5 MW wind turbines and [sells] all of its electricity to Westar Energy, the largest electric utility in Kansas. . . Post Rock [is] capable of powering more than 70,000 average homes and displacing about 815,000 tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of taking 145,000 average US cars off the road, according to US Environmental Protection Agency methodology."
A young supporter of renewable energy enjoys utter peace and tranquillity at Ovenden Moor wind farm in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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A Fast and Fair Clean Energy Transition: How We Can Unlock Capital for Climate Mitigation in an Equitable and Just Way
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Murray Hill West
To reach net zero global emissions by 2050 and avert the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to deploy clean energy technologies much more rapidly. This will require a massive surge in public and private investment across mature, clean technologies and early-stage and breakthrough solutions. Support for clean energy innovation and transition is especially critical for emerging and developing economies as they try to reconcile poverty alleviation and economic growth with global decarbonization goals. Proven strategies – from investment in local research and innovation to knowledge and technology transfer – can help countries advance cleantech solutions tailored to their specific needs and take the lead in determining their own energy future.
This session will explore:
•How can the public and private sectors work together to unlock capital for innovation and create markets for new clean technologies and businesses?
•How can we fund and strengthen local energy innovation ecosystems in emerging and developing economies?
•How can we center equity and justice in deep decarbonization efforts?
Speakers:
•Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO, World Resources Institute
•Sumant Sinha, Chairman & CEO, Renew Energy Global Plc
•Patricia Espinosa, Ambassador, Former Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC, and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
•Katie Rae, CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine
•Salma Okonkwo, Founder, Blue Power Energy
•Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst
•Chris Sacca, Founder, Lowercarbon Capital
•Guillermo Lasso, President, Republic of Ecuador
•Rolando González-Bunster, Chairman & CEO, Interenergy
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 19: <> attends the Clinton Global Initiative September 2022 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 19, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)
Wind turbines near Ubly, Michigan in Michigans Thumb. Photo published in Detroit Business Magazine in Sep/Oct 2009 Edition. Here is a link to the E-Edition www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/September-October-2009/Gambli...
The Site C Clean Energy Project reached another important milestone with the award of the turbines and generators contract to Voith Hydro Inc. The contract has a value of approximately $470M and includes the design, supply and installation of six verticle axis, Francis-style turbines, six generators and associated equipment.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016PREM0037-000522
From Paris to New York: A People's Agenda for Preventing Climate Change
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This is the view from our flight from Kauai to Maui.
It makes me feel glad whenever I see some progressive states attempting to take advantage of clean energy - and apparently the Island of Maui was taking a lead on such movement for clean energy as well.
From the flight we saw some massive wind turbines - and I did a quick research and apparently some areas of Hawaii are very suitable for wind power generation.
While a lot of Americans, or even people all over the world are a little pessimistic with environmental issues, this was nice to see. Some states are moving forward even if the top of the country does not take a proper lead.
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Elizabeth Mukwimba is a 62-year-old Tanzanian smallholder farmer who now has solar lighting and a cleaner cookstove in her home, thanks to schemes backed by UK aid.
Elizabeth has had an M-Power solar panel and lights fitted in her home by Off Grid Electric, a private sector company dedicated to providing sustainable, affordable energy to people in developing countries who aren't connected to the electricity grid.
It means that Elizabeth now has lighting at home at night, which means she doesn't have to buy expensive kerosene. The money she's saved already has helped her put a new tin roof on her house. It also means her grandchildren can read and do their homework in the evening.
She also has a 'clean cookstove', as seen in this picture. These cookstoves provide a safer, more durable and energy efficient means of cooking as opposed to traditional open fire cooking. The ceramic, metal-encased design means that much smaller amounts of wood or charcoal are needed, thus reducing the amount of time and money people need to spend on procuring fuel. The design is therefore also much healthier, producing much less smoke or carbon monoxide.
"I feel much better because of the solar lighting and the cookstove", says Elizabeth.
"Before, I sometimes had to choose between buying vegetables to eat, or buying kerosene to light the lamps with at night. Sometimes we used to have to rely just on matches for lighting in the dark.
"But now I'm not having to buy kerosene and the cookstove uses much less fuel, so I'm saving money and not worrying so much about how to provide for my family. It means I can start to save money to hopefully build a new house in the future".
In less than 2 years, Off Grid Electric has installed solar power systems in over 22,000 homes across Tanzania, meaning many more people now have access to cheap, renewable electricity - a vital step forward in a country where less than 14% of the population are connected to the electricity grid.
The Tanzania Improved Cook Stoves programme, implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV, aims to provide improved cooking facilities for 45,000 people in Tanzania's Lake Zone region by 2017. 28,500 people have already benefitted.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.
Demanding good jobs, healthier communities, and frontline justice with 100% clean, renewable energy, hundreds of New Yorkers converged on the State Capitol on Wednesday to call on Governor Cuomo and state lawmakers to support the NYS Climate & Community Protection Act (A.10342) – the nation’s strongest climate protection bill. NY Renews, a historic group of labor, environmental, and grassroots organizations, is coming together for the first time to trailblaze a new front in the fight against climate change – pushing the climate protection debate from an environmental discussion to an economic and social justice one.
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The Site C Clean Energy Project reached another important milestone with the award of the turbines and generators contract to Voith Hydro Inc. The contract has a value of approximately $470M and includes the design, supply and installation of six verticle axis, Francis-style turbines, six generators and associated equipment.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016PREM0037-000522
Ombeni Urio is a builder based near Arusha in Tanzania. But in 2010 he received training in how to build and install domestic and agricultural bio-gas systems, thanks to a project being implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV, with support from UK aid.
The bio-gas systems consist of brick-built tanks buried in the ground, into which animal or human waste is flushed, which then produces natural gas as it decomposes. The gas can then be piped off and used for cooking fuel, and the residue waste becomes slurry that can be used as fertiliser for crops.
Ombeni now employs 8 people and has built over 250 domestic and small agricultural use bio-gas systems around Arusha. At first the programme provided him with subsidised labour and materials, as well as marketing and business training. Now he's established a sustainable business, he gets a financial incentive based on the number of systems he sells and installs.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
Great moments from the event "Talking Green". Where African and International Sustainability investors, and impact leaders where enjoying great food, presentations, and networking during the Stockholm + 50 week.
Talking Green was organised by H.E. Priscilia Misihairambwi, Zimbabwes Ambassador to Sweden, the Nordics and Baltics.
The event was held at the Zimbabwes Embassy residence during the Stockholm +50 Sustainability event.
Thank you so much Priscilia, Stanley Nyoni and team!
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Transmission lines from Syanja to Butwal. The Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Project addresses the increasing demand for electricity in Nepal in an environmentally sustainable, socially acceptable, and least-cost manner.
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Great moments from the event "Talking Green". Where African and International Sustainability investors, and impact leaders where enjoying great food, presentations, and networking during the Stockholm + 50 week.
Talking Green was organised by H.E. Priscilia Misihairambwi, Zimbabwes Ambassador to Sweden, the Nordics and Baltics.
The event was held at the Zimbabwes Embassy residence during the Stockholm +50 Sustainability event.
Thank you so much Priscilia, Stanley Nyoni and team!
Zimbabwe Embassy in Stockholm:
About Stockholm + 50:
The latest on Instagram:
Since 2008 CleanTech Region Impact Group deliver Swedish, Nordic and Baltic leading CleanTech with financing globally.
We source, facilitate, advise and match with International investors, buyers, projects and partners Internationally.
Connect for support with the climate solver you need! linktr.ee/cleantechregion
For Inspirational Key-note presentations, lectures and moderation Beyond Sustainability, on topics relevant for your company, city or organisation, please reach out to Lars Ling, CEO and Founder of CleanTech Region Impact Group below.
Photos and video credit: Lars Ling
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Government installed solar panels gives power to 36 houses in the village of Weepatando in Sumba island.
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A windfarm in the Columbia River Gorge. Roads cut into fragile soils on volcanic rock. Erosion which will find its way into the river.
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BC’s new car dealers play a vital role in encouraging more and more British Columbians to get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle. With 98% of the electricity generated in BC coming from clean or renewable resources, stimulating the purchase of electric vehicles is one of the most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gases.
Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett is joined by Brad Ostermann, GM Campus Nissan.
Dal produttore al consumatore.
Una fonte preziosa di energia e di calore, una fonte di vita… il nostro sole.
...walking out of class a week or so ago the clouds and dwindling rays of sunshine caught my eye. Searching for a good angle, I used a trashcan for a tripod and snapped this HDR shot, making sure to include one of the tall windmills I see alongside the TMCC parking lot.
The traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation can be found on the west coast of central Vancouver Island and includesthe town of Tofino. It has natural boundaries of
mountains and ocean, and is home to about 1,000 members. The territory is also a perfect location for the development of small, clean energy projects.
To support greater First Nations participation in the clean energy sector, applications are now being accepted until the end of January for the next round of funding from the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund (FNCEBF).
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/ministries/aboriginal-relations-and-reconc...
Rahel Shigela, an artisan stove maker who lives near Mwanza in northern Tanzania.
Rahel has been making clay pots and stoves for 20 years, but has recently received training in how to also make 'clean cookstoves', as part of a UK-supported programme being implemented by the Dutch NGO SNV.
The sign behind her is her brand identity, Jiko Shigela, which she developed with the help of SNV. It reads:
"Clean stove, nice fire, little money".
"Enjoy cooking today!"
The clean cookstoves can use wood or charcoal for fuel, but use less of either, and produce less smoke, than traditional open fire cooking - meaning they're more fuel efficient, and less harmful in terms of the fumes they emit. This in turn means that people have to spend less money on buying charcoal, less time collecting firewood, and are less exposed to smoke and fumes that affect their health.
The SNV project ensures consistent quality of cookstoves through training and the introduction of standardised production methods. Since the start of the project in 2012, about 28,500 people have benefitted from clean cookstoves across Tanzania's Lake Zone.
Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development