September 4th, 2019 | by The Beam
SHS are micro-power plants with integrated energy storage that provide electricity to individual buildings or households. SHS typically provide DC power that can be used without any problems for lamps and mobile phone charging. For newly electrified households, these are typically the main power needs. The electricity from SHS is not fully comparable to AC power that we know in developed countries
August 28th, 2019 | by The Beam
Dear Hollywood, clean energy is normal, not alternative. And the people fueling this industry have powerful, underrepresented stories to share
August 28th, 2019 | by The Beam
Carboculture turns methane-spewing biomass into high-carbon charcoal, thanks to a patented technology that transfers waste into charcoal in a carbon-neutral way, allowing a cleaner, more efficient way to make charcoal and charcoal products
August 25th, 2019 | by The Beam
Reducing deforestation, which is responsible for up to 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions, is crucial for the international community to achieve its goal under the Paris Climate Change Agreement to keep the global average temperature rise as close as possible to 1.5 degrees Celsius
August 23rd, 2019 | by The Beam
As has been outlined on countless occasions, large tech conglomerates play a critical role in our day-to-day lives. Platforms like Facebook, for instance, help connect over 2.38 billion monthly active users. Thus, their social responsibility in everything from politics, news and even climate change is indisputable. Despite Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing his support for the Paris Climate Agreement, Facebook continues to take money from many fossil fuel companies via advertising
August 23rd, 2019 | by The Beam
History might lead us to believe that they can’t — but is that true for today’s developing countries
August 21st, 2019 | by The Beam
Kenya taps most of its energy needs from dams built between 1970 and early the ’80s along Tana River, the country’s biggest river. Several other dams built on other rivers bring the total installed hydropower capacity to 743 MW, which makes up more than half of the country’s power sources
August 15th, 2019 | by The Beam
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a major environmental problem, yet, in the context of the many warnings we’ve had over the last decade as to the damage we are doing to our planet, it seems perfectly in keeping with the times. Except, of course, that it’s not even new. Scientists have been officially monitoring its growth since the 1970s.
August 13th, 2019 | by The Beam
We will be more effective messengers if we reframe the way we talk about climate change and the energy transition. We can do this by focusing on opportunity and empowerment and drawing more people into the conversation through accessible communication formats
August 11th, 2019 | by The Beam
An interview with Alexandra Wandel, Executive Director of the World Future Council
August 9th, 2019 | by The Beam
Women in Sierra Leone have demonstrated that energy is a catalyst for women’s economic empowerment and advancement. Energy access transforms lives and communities through unlocking not just power, but benefits to health, education levels, livelihoods, gender equality and the environment.
August 7th, 2019 | by The Beam
Brenda Katwesigye is the founder and CEO of Wazi Vision Limited, a company incorporated in Uganda that builds eyewear and construction material from recycled plastic. Brenda is passionate about creating sustainable and affordable solutions for critical health care and housing challenges, so we talked to her about the challenges of providing eye care to children in Uganda and how she’s contributing to solving these issues
August 5th, 2019 | by The Beam
The rise in interest of the circular economy (CE) has been rapid and widespread within the domain of business, economics, and recently, politics. Championed by organizations such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the key concepts of a circular economy are now directly influencing policy across Europe, from Finland to France and Spain to Slovenia; and globally too with India and China both exploring what circularity means from their own economic, national, and cultural perspectives
August 1st, 2019 | by The Beam
Google and Facebook have been vital tools in enabling fossil fuel companies to pedal their often misleading agenda related to climate change developments. If the price is right, it appears that these Internet companies have no issue backtracking on their green initiatives and advertising policies
July 26th, 2019 | by The Beam
“Efforts to reach last-mile customers need to be based on a solid understanding of their needs.”
July 24th, 2019 | by The Beam
In our travels across rural India, we may have come to understand what would encourage clean and modern cooking options in the home.
July 22nd, 2019 | by The Beam
Meike describes herself as “an optimist by nature” and a “healthily impatient by nature”. She started her career at Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in 1994, and has been contributing to the fight against poverty ever since
July 20th, 2019 | by The Beam
Although women are now very well educated and have the potential to contribute to economic growth, scientific research, technological advances and sustainable innovation, they are still disadvantaged and left out. We live in the 21st century, exploring emerging technologies geared to design better futures, but we haven’t managed to overcome the imbalance between men and women? This is a problem. Everywhere
July 18th, 2019 | by The Beam
What has the international legal and political community been doing about tackling unsustainable consumption patterns
July 16th, 2019 | by The Beam
We talk with Sheila Oparaocha from ENERGIA about gender, energy, poverty, and politics
