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Energy

• African Development, Energy, Health

  Earth Day and Bill Gates

  04.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  On Wednesday, Bill Gates gave a speech at Sanders Theatre at Harvard, urging the nation’s brightest students to tackle the most challenging issues facing the world.  Though I wasn’t able to see the talk–I am currently studying at Cambridge on a scholarship founded by the Gates Trust–the ideals he spoke of resonate.  At Lebone, we [...]

• African Development, Developing World Technologies, Energy, Microbial Fuel Cells

  Lebone + Popular Mechanics

  10.12.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Lebone was named one of the 10 Most Brilliant Innovations of 2009 by Popular Mechanics! We are very honored and humbled to be a part of this remarkable community of innovators.
  Just being in the same room as the other award winners (please read more about their truly remarkable work) is an experience that we will [...]

• Energy, Microbial Fuel Cells

  Lebone & MIT IDEAS

  05.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  We are very grateful to the MIT IDEAS competition for awarding Lebone with the Muhammad Yunus Innovation Challenge to Alleviate Poverty award at last night’s award ceremony. We look forward to a brief retreat later in May with the other winners to develop practical skills before we apply the grant money directly to prototyping [...]

• Energy

  Lebone Blog!

  11.10.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  We’re starting a Lebônê blog to keep you updated on our progress in bringing low cost, environmentally friendly, locally sustainable lighting to Africa. We’ll also be posting about broader development issues and technologies that interest us.
  To get started: is it possible to power America entirely by renewable energy by 2020? Al Gore thinks so.
  So what [...]