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SF Chronicle covers 2nd “Light up the Night” event
“The Hulk” Flexes Celebrity Muscle in Support of Nonprofit Bringing Renewable Energy to Rural Zambia. Sustainability supporters, Silicon Valley and celebrities alike came together Thursday night June 21 to bask in the glow of Empowered by Light, a Bay Area-based nonprofit organization that brings renewable energy technologies to developing countries. Click this link for more here.
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SF Chronicle covers Light up the Night
Actor Adrian Grenier recently lent some of his celebrity wattage to Empowered by Light, a nonprofit that brings clean technologies to developing countries. The organization held a reception June 18 at Roe in San Francisco to announce the start of its first project, Solar: Zambia. Full Article
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School Visits
My colleague Mooto and I left camp at dawn yesterday to drive for three hours along the river, then turn west, finally reaching a small school called Liumbo. The road to Liumbo is more narrow than the 4×4 in places, so we rolled up the windows to keep out branches and thorns. In other areas the road turns to [...]
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Kabula
Kabula is a small town in the bush about 40 minutes’ drive from the main road. The small mud-brick school in Kabula has only two classrooms, and its thatched roof is caving in. A new school building is under construction, but it is only half-completed, and funds from the government have run out. Other than the school, there are [...]
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Teacher Interviews
A week ago we gave solar kits to four teachers at Sankandi Basic School, not far from where we’re staying, as part of our pilot program to test the community’s reaction to the lights. On Thursday I did follow-up interviews with these four teachers. What I learned surprised me: people use the lights in very different ways. Ziezi Mulatamboo [...]
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Light up the Night featured on Vivanista
The local eco-glitterati turned out in droves on Saturday evening, June 18, 2011 for the launch of Empowered By Light, a new nonprofit foundation that is delivering renewable energy light to rural communities in Africa that currently have no electric power. Held at Roe in San Francisco’s SOMA, the sold-out launch party titledLight Up The Night was co-hosted by SHFT co-founders [...]
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This Summer
I wake up early in the morning and look out on the sunlit mist rising from the mighty Zambezi. After a quick breakfast of eggs and toast, my colleague Mooto and I hop into a 4×4 and drive along bumpy dirt roads to get to the first school of the day. We find the head teacher and explain our [...]
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EBL featured on the Bold Italic
Saturday, I attended the launch party for Empowered By Light, a new nonprofit with the mission of delivering renewable energy light sources to people without access to power. Held at the SOMA club Roe, the event was sold out, making me feel decidedly more A-list than usual. The sizable crowd was probably due in large part to [...]
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SF Examiner covers EBL event
‘Light Up the Night’: Ecology-minded celebrities and community leaders turned out Saturday night to launch Empowered by Light, a nonprofit foundation working on delivering renewable-energy lighting to rural communities in Africa. The party, held at Roe in San Francisco’s South of Market area and co-hosted by actor-activist Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer, raised more than $100,000 [...]
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