Branching Out

Farmers in Tree Bank programme harvest long-term profits and win over sceptical neighbours

Bangkok Post | 19/04/2012

“Are you in your right mind? What are you going to get from planting trees? What will you eat? You must be crazy"

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Barefoot College and Microformers shine as innovative power solutions

Institutions like India's Barefoot College, which teaches women how to run and repair solar installations, and projects like Microformers, which converts old microwave ovens into transformers, show ways to generate cheap electricity in poor regions

By Pete Mercouriou | Global Envision in Christian Science Monitor | March 30, 2012

People install solar panels on the Saint-Michel health center and a fish hatchery in Boucan Carre, Haiti. The panels will provide the town with a dependable electricity supply for the first time. Only a quarter of Haiti's 10 million people has regular access to electricity. In 28 countries, Barefoot College is teaching people to harness solar power for electricity. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP/File

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