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- Rishi Sunak’s woes mount with oil bill rebellion, byelections and asylum row Sun, 7 Jan 24, 5:00pmParliament returns for election year with a resignation over North Sea drilling and a fight over the Tories’ Rwanda plan
- The Ellen DeGeneres Fund helps to anchor conservation hub Thu, 18 Aug 22, 1:30amThe Ellen DeGeneres campus of the Fossey Gorilla Fund is a new educational center in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda. It aims to serve as a worldwide model for responsible design and construction focused on ecology. This...
- ‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda Sat, 2 Apr 22, 6:00pmSolar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps
- Nonprofit plants 80,000 trees in Kenya and Rwanda Tue, 31 Mar 20, 3:30amThe name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000.[...]
- Rwanda hopes to increase energy efficiency with new cooling initiative Fri, 15 Feb 19, 6:30amRwanda has big plans for a more sustainable future and is launching a new cooling initiative that will increase energy efficiency within the country's booming electricity sector...
- OffGridBox raises $1.6M to charge and hydrate rural Africa with its all-in-one installations Fri, 14 Dec 18, 5:15amThe simplest needs are often the most vital: power and clean water will get you a long way. But in rural areas of developing countries they can both be hard to come by. OffGridBox is attempting to provide both, sustainably...
- Inspiring youth village for orphans generates solar power for nearly 10% of Rwanda Thu, 16 Nov 17, 12:35amMore than one million people in a population of over 11 million in Rwanda are orphans. After hearing about this crisis, couple Anne Heyman and Seth Merrin started the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) to offer a safe community...
- Compact OffGridBox provides drinking water and power where it's needed most Fri, 18 Aug 17, 9:47pmAn Italian company has developed a compact solution for communities that lack access to clean drinking water and electricity - the OffGridBox. Measuring 6x6x6 feet, the container cube features everything necessary to generate,...
- Compact OffGridBox provides clean drinking water and power where it's needed most Fri, 18 Aug 17, 9:47pmAn Italian company has developed a compact solution for communities that lack access to clean drinking water and electricity - the OffGridBox. Measuring 6x6x6 feet, the container cube features everything necessary to generate,...
- Foster + Partners' Droneport will launch aerial vehicles to deliver medical supplies in Africa Sat, 28 May 16, 4:00amHundreds of thousands of Africans die every year from malaria and sickle cell disease due to a lack of access to medical supplies and aid. Poor transportation infrastructure poses one of the biggest obstacles to aid distribution....
- Lighting up Africa: the UK's plan to expand access to energy Thu, 7 Jan 16, 9:52pmNew UK international development minister Nick Hurd wants to boost off-grid solar power in the only region where those without access to modern energy is set to rise
- Africa’s fastest solar power project was built in one year Thu, 26 Nov 15, 3:30amRwanda, perhaps best known as a tiny war-torn nation in the middle of Africa, has garnered the attention of clean energy advocates around the globe for constructing the fastest solar power project on the continent...
- How Africa's fastest solar power project is lighting up Rwanda Mon, 23 Nov 15, 9:20pmEast African plant is completed in less than a year – creating jobs and setting the country on the path to providing half its population with electricity by 2017
- Foster + Partners’ Droneport will launch aerial vehicles to deliver medical supplies in Africa Thu, 17 Sep 15, 7:23amIn their latest project, Foster + Partners switches gears from large-scale airports to something much smaller and unexpected: drones. The international design studio unveiled plans for the Droneport, a transit hub to support...
- Foster + Partners’ Droneport will launch aerial vehicles to save lives in East Africa Thu, 17 Sep 15, 2:00amIn their latest project, Foster + Partners switches gears from large-scale airports to something much smaller and unexpected: drones. The international design studio unveiled plans for the Droneport, a transit hub to support...