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Empowered By Light is committed to improving lives and the environment by encouraging the use of renewable energy technologies.

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Rabobank

With global assets exceeding $880 billion, Rabobank is a valued financial partner for millions of individuals, businesses, farmers and ranchers, food and agribusiness companies, and other select institutions across the globe. Rabobank is considered one of the safest banks in the world. It is the world’s premier food and agribusiness bank with a deep commitment to sustainability.  For more information on Rabobank’s global sustainability efforts, visit their website

Lemnis Lighting

Since its inception in 2005, Lemnis Lighting has developed from a bright idea into a worldwide company pioneering LED lighting, and accelerating the lighting industry’s transition to LED technology. Lemnis offers indoor retrofit products for homes, offices and the hospitality sector with its renowned Pharox brand, as well as outdoor and greenhouse lighting solutions. Lemnis operates out of its Netherlands-based headquarters as well as through its offices and partnerships in San Francisco (USA), Hong Kong (China), Singapore and Johannesburg (South Africa).

Its innovative technology and business models, along with its impact-driven leadership in the industry, has won it awards and endorsements such as Tech Pioneer of the World Economic Forum, Partner in the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Lighting Africa Award from the World Bank.

Besides supplying its next generation Pharox Solar LED kits, Lemnis will also provide in-country logistics for distribution of the kits and after-sales service.

For more information, please visit their website

Global Green USA

Global Green USA is a nonprofit organization (NGO) primarily focused on fighting global climate change through our green affordable housing initiatives, National Green Schools Initiative, national and regional green building policies, advocacy and education.Founded in 1994 by activist and philanthropist Diane Meyer Simon, the organization is the American Arm of Green Cross International (GCI), which was created by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future by reconnecting humanity with the environment.

Global Green merges innovative research, cutting-edge community based projects and targeted advocacy that:

  • Educates hundreds of millions of people annually;
  • Leverages billions of dollars for environmental initiatives;
  • Implements ground-breaking environmental policy;
  • Improves the lives of tens of thousands in low-income communities.

Global Green will assist EBL’s Zambia Project with media and fundraising, and will lend its experience and name to support the project.

For more information, please visit their website

SHFT


Actor/filmmaker Adrian Grenier and film producer Peter Glatzer founded SHFT after creating the TV show ALTER ECO for Discovery’s Planet Green.  With SHFT.COM, they set out to build a platform that uses media to curate the myriad sustainable choices now available to us and to highlight the cultural shift taking place.  Their goal is to gently nudge the idea of sustainability into pop culture.

SHFT.COM offers original video series, curated shopping, and a host of resources that speak to a modern, inspirational, eco- conscious lifestyle.  Their first original series, LIGHTEN UP,  followed bands as they toured while reducing their carbon footprint and mitigating waste.  It reached over 8 Million viewers.  Off line, SHFT creates pop up art galleries, with a curatorial theme of man’s relationship to his environment.  SHFT is never preachy or proscriptive, it strives to be inspirational and aspirational, urging a cultural shift toward a more conscious sustainable world.

ZEEC: Zambezi Environmental Education Camp

The Zambezi Environmental Education Camp (ZEEC) is located along the Zambezi River near Sioma in the Western Province of Zambia. It offers students from Europe and North America a unique opportunity to observe and experience a culture (Lozi) with strong, functioning traditions operating on a subsistence economy. During their stay, students also learn about local environmental issues including slash/burn agriculture, hunting/poaching, timber exploitation, the challenge of maintaining an unpolluted river and communities/population in decline. Students may also participate in community action service projects.

ZEEC is a member of the Wildlife and Conservation Society of Zambia, and is registered as a non-profit NGO. It is supported by the Watoto Charitable Trust.

ZEEC was cofounded by John and Alison Curtis, who have been leading student trips annually to environmental education centers in Kenya and Zambia since 1994. John was previously headmaster of the International Schools of Bern and Lausanne and The Winter Term in Lenk, Switzerland. Previously, Alison was Director of Camp Lenk and the Alpine Environmental Education Center and Chair of the Environmental Education Committee of the European Council of International Schools. She is also the coordinator of several grassroots health and education projects in Kenya. ZEEC’s Program Director is Mwitumwa M. Joe, from Senanga, Zambia.

For more information, please visit their website

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, founded in 1919, is the world’s oldest airline operating under its original name. In 2004 Air France and KLM merged to form AIR FRANCE KLM. The merger produced the strongest European airline group based on two powerful brand names and hubs – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

KLM  participates in the industry’s leading trans-Atlantic joint venture with Air France, Delta Air Lines and Alitalia, providing nearly 250 daily trans-Atlantic flights and a fleet of 144 aircraft.

For more information, please visit their website

INSID: The Institute for Sustainable Innovation & Development

The Institute for Sustainable Innovation & Development is an independent foundation with the objective of accelerating sustainable innovation and practices amongst consumers, producers and policy-makers. INSID was founded by HRH Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme, who is deeply committed to fundamentally rethinking our way of life; so as to build a better world for future generations.

Currently INSID is developing a universal sustainability rating system that will inform customers and galvanize businesses to make more sustainable decisions.

“Sustainability is neither left nor right. It’s not political. It’s forward. It’s building a better future for your children. It’s developing solutions that you can proud of. It’s thinking; foresight; overcoming challenges; and innovation.”
- HRH Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme

For more information, please visit their website

Zambia National Commercial Bank

The Zambia National Commercial Bank Plc (Zanaco) is the leading bank of Zambia. Zanaco is a Rabobank affiliate.  Zanaco will offer financial literacy training to recipient communities.  It will also contribute on-the-ground infrastructure and resources for the project.

For more information, please visit their website

Clif Bar

Based in Emeryville, Calif., Clif Bar & Company is an American company that produces energy bars and other all natural and organic food targeted to people with active lifestyles. Their best-known product, Clif Bar, was created in 1992 by owner Gary Erickson. As a food company, Clif Bar & Company believes their responsibility is to the planet and communities at home and abroad.

iTAD Solutions

iTAD Solutions specializes in creating electronic asset disposal programs for corporate clients. Based in California, iTAD aims to provide safe, secure and sustainable end of life solutions for your retired electronic equipment. Partnering with Empowered By Light they have provided laptop computers for school children and communities in rural Zambia. The power of light is supported by the gift of technology.