Bill Nussey talks with Amar Inamdar of Kenya-based KawiSafi Ventures about using a venture capital investment model to bring affordable, clean energy solutions to the 600 million Africans without any electricity. Read More
Host Bill Nussey talks with Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, about their inspiring success at helping close almost half the coal plants in the US over the last decade Read More
Local energy is the fastest path to cleaner, cheaper, more reliable power. Nowhere is this truer than Africa. And, few people express the amazing future of local energy in Africa better than Amar Inamdar. His recent talk from TEDGlobal 2017 was featured on the home page of TED.com and has been spectacularly well received. If… Read More
Net Impact is an annual conference dedicated to helping students and professionals create careers that make a positive impact on the world. Thousands of people from across the US come together to for three days to learn and collaborate on topics ranging from social justice and clean energy to sustainable agriculture and civic engagement. When I… Read More
Kenya is a nation of farmers. About two-thirds of the country support themselves by tilling the ground, planting seeds and harvesting crops. Despite having mild year-round weather, the dry climate only supports two annual growing seasons, the “long rains” and the “short rains.” These limited seasons mean many Kenyan farmers can barely grow enough to… Read More
Imagine if your day ended when the sun went down… Work stopped. Stores closed. Your home was dark. If you have any light it all, it was a dim, flickering flame from a kerosene lamp or candle – barely enough to read. This was how the entire world population lived in the mid-1800s. But in… Read More
On my recent trip to Africa, Jacqueline Novogratz, the CEO of the anti-poverty organization, Acumen, shared something she’d heard from a woman in Pakistan… Off-grid solar home systems (SHS) consist of small boxes attached to a mini solar panel and a handful of lights at the end of long, thin wires. These boxes light up… Read More
A few years ago, on a vacation in Africa, we took a break from safaris and drove a few hours into the deep bush to meet a small village of Samburu people. One of the mothers invited us into her hut to show us how she prepared food for her family. I’ll never forget that… Read More
