Lebônê http://www.lebone.org Lighting Africa Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:01:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Lebone in the NYT http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/13/lebone-in-the-new-york-times/ http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/13/lebone-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:54:22 +0000 Alexander http://www.lebone.org/?p=101 The New York Times published a great article on Lebônê in Tuesday’s Giving Section. Overall, we’re really pleased with how it turned out.

Also in the Giving Section: an article about NetHelp, a very cool solar-powered internet-hookup for aid workers in disaster areas. Why limit this to aidworkers, though? Why not connect it to OLPCs and bring the internet to rural villages everywhere? (My guess is satellite bandwidth and cost.)

]]> http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/13/lebone-in-the-new-york-times/feed/ Lebone Blog! http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/10/lebone-blog/ http://www.lebone.org/2008/11/10/lebone-blog/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:03 +0000 Alexander http://www.lebone.org/?p=55 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 are the chances of this actually happening? We’re not talking about a space race or a Manhattan project–that is, there is no way that a government sponsored effort will accomplish this–but what about those “10,000 inventors working in 10,000 companies and 10,000 garages” that people like Tom Friedman keep talking about?

We are proud to be one of those 10,000.

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