Working Inside Toilet ( Galliot, 2015 )

No electricity to keep a fan going, or refrigerate food, or power computers to send e-mails throughout the African Union.

My neighbor Cindy is asking my advice about her new idea of running a contracting business for

Government has provided for the common good is planning to connect solar energy to low-income households across the country. “Thankfully, on July 7 the Obama administration announced a new initiative designed to help deploy solar power in low and moderate-income neighborhoods” (Jones 1). Clean energy immensely benefits citizens who attach solar panels on the roof of their homes, because “By producing their own clean power, they are both fighting pollution and saving money” (1). The organization “Green For All” and Environmental Protection Agency have been working together to expand solar power to more Americans, in order to protect them from harmful pollution and paying high bills. Without the U.S. government, solar companies wouldn’t have been able to take big steps in increasing solar energy. The Environmental Protection Agency has worked to protect the health of Americans as well as protecting the environment, and working with the Green For All organization demonstrates the necessity of this agency. Because it is crucial for people to have their welfare and safety protected, the U.S. government is doing a favor by planning to provide clean, solar energy to those in

In Kenya the sun shines every morning. The temperature for a normal day is about 100 degrees. The solar light panels will be able to produce light . “Solar lights are the future for Kenya. We need to start using more renewable energy to save the planet and better lives.” Says Linda Wamune. Mary is not only reusing her resources but helping the environments health, and wealth. She is using her money and time more efficiently by speeding up the process of light production to better her plants. This is important because it is giving Mary money to save she is also benefiting her health, environment and wealth. By Mary growing crops and using solar power panels it raises her country's resources of the crop and is benefiting her at the same

More than two years after the 2010 earthquake, Haiti’s energy supply remains a significant challenge. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Haiti’s 2007 per capita energy consumption was about 1/10 as much as that in the neighboring Dominican Republic, and about 1/24 the global average. The Western Hemisphere’s poorest country is on the same level as war-torn Afghanistan. The country needs new energy for sustained economic development (www.worldwatch.org).

Look it this home. This person is looking for a sustainable way to power their home using solar panels not depending much on non-renewable resources. Hopefully in the future we can reduce our dependency on non-renewable resources like natural gases and oil.

In this week reading, “Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries”, by Simone Chess, Alison Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson they expressed three main points throughout the article. The first main point in this article is that “ bathrooms are easier to access for some of us than for others.” This is an issue that some people don’t know about or don’t even think is a problem. Recently this has been a hotbed topic, within the media but I have been aware of this problem for sometime now. Many of my close friends have expressed their concerns about the bathroom situation well before this became a newsworthy topic. In addition, this topic has always bothered me because it is a bathroom and people mostly use the bathroom for two purposes.

In chapter 9 Freedman discusses energy poverty in developing countries, he focuses on African countries. Energy Poverty is the low availability of energy around the globe. According to the world bank, the Netherlands today makes as much electrical power yearly as all of sub-Saharan Africa, except South Africa, combined. Access to electricity wasn't even one of the eight Millennium Development Goals that was set by the UN in 2000. There are currently 1.6 billion people, one out of every four, who don’t have access to an electrical grid.

Solar Resources are not only affecting the GDP for power, but in other areas as well. Over a million residential water heaters are replaced each year and more are being replaced by using solar power. The solar power is given an opportunity in use solar power as the primary heating source for homes and commercial buildings. Which can increase the amount of GDP that is spend, yearly on solar and a large share of the energy market.

William Kamkwamba shares his story of growing up in poverty and his fight against it during the TEDGlobal Talk in 2009. As a Malawian, a nation-wide famine in 2001 forced him to drop out of school. Determined to get an education, he began going to a library to learn from books. There, he finds the idea of building a windmill to pump water and generate electricity - a way of lifting his family out of poverty. Using scrap parts, he begins building his machine and attracts the attention of everyone around him, including reporters. As an engineer now, Kamkwamba wants to inspire other Africans to believe in themselves and follow their

On August 15th, 2012, flush with the joy of having received my first salary, I embarked on a journey that I hoped would culminate in an off grid solar powered household. Today, as I write this essay, that goal is in sight. Over the past four years, I have built a system that is capable of generating over 3 kW-h of power on a daily basis, having added to the system every time finances allowed. During this time, my household has generated over 3 MW-h of power, equivalent to 1.2 tons of carbon-dioxide not generated. A few years since starting the solar project, my personal interest also diversified to sustainability, resulting in an aquaponics project housing over fifty koi carps and vegetables grown from their excrement enough to feed my family

Shortage of clean water in most of sub-Saharan countries have been a major cause of poor sanitation that lead to child mortality and many other diseases such as diarrhea and poor hygiene related disease that causes almost 500 children to die every day (UNICEF,2015). I still can’t believe that I have water in my room here at ASU. I had to walk more than 10 miles every day before I go to class fetching water back home in Rwanda when I was a little kid. Building boreholes to most of this African countries can save life and time that can be used to do different job that can generate money for families.

electricity access (including off-grid electrification) to houses in rural area such as long-houses in the remote areas of Sabah and Sarawak, villages of indigenous

New ideas, opportunities and technologies are sought in solving long-standing social problems. There is a good example to indicate our words, social entrepreneur in South America, Steve Katsaros. Can you imagine what was life like when oil lamps and candles were all we had to light our cities with? Indoors was just as treacherous as outdoors. Katsaros invented a solar-powered light bulb that provide isolated villages with power, thus bypassing the need to bring a power infrastructure out to remote areas. It has brought a great change in their daily lives which allow people to work, study and play at night without the use of kerosene lamps, which may pollute the environment and arise the respiratory diseases such as asthma. Consequently, Katsaros was able to bring convenience to the people while he can also stay in his business by selling the bulbs to the people. (The Guardian, 2009)

Think about solar energy and the first image that springs to the mind is that of those arrays of shiny photovoltaic panels adorning the rooftops and the countryside. Indeed, photovoltaic cells still remain the most popular way of generating solar power. Solar power, for one thing, is not cheap. However, even though the initial set up costs can be quite high, the long-term financial benefits of using solar power are too strong to deny.