month : 11/2011 51 results

“Power the World” Week – Issue #4: African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

Thanks to this solar panel, Sara Ruto no longer takes a three-hour taxi ride to a town with electricity to recharge her cellphone.

For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline for receiving small money transfers, contacting relatives in the city or checking chicken prices at the nearest market. Charging the phone was no simple matter in this farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid. Every week, Ms. Ruto walked two miles to hire a motorcycle taxi for the three-hour ride to Mogotio, the nearest town with electricity. There, she dropped off her cellphone at a store that recharges phones for 30 cents. Yet the service was in such demand that she had to leave it behind for three full days before returning. That wearying routine ended in February when the family sold some animals to buy a small Chinese-made solar power system for about $80. Now balanced precariously atop their tin roof, a lone solar panel provides enough electricity to charge the phone and run four bright overhead lights with switches. “My main motivation was the phone, but this has changed so many other things,” Ms. Ruto said on a recent evening as she relaxed on a bench in the mud-walled shack she shares with her husband and six children. ...
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Miami Airport Installation: Harmonic Convergence by Christopher Janney
the work of american sound architect christopher janney, 'harmonic convergence' is an interactive sound and light installation, constructed within the pedestrian walkway of the miami international airport in florida. to be officially inaugurated to coincide with art basel miami beach and design miami 2011 this december, the piece replaces janney's 1997 commission at the airport, 'harmonic runway'. ...
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Florence + The Machine Interview and Performance

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoHz5b_VAQ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9rZM93R8w
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New Music: Ardian Bujupi

 This is pretty straight forward pop music but I like the dude. He was 3rd place in Germany's ...
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Power the World Week Issue #3: IIT students power up children’s laptops in Haiti

 Project brings solar energy to country where 95% of schools do not have reliable electricity W...
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PEAK sneaker design from NATO

 See below for PEAK sneaker customizations from Beijing-based graffiti writer and EDGE Creative ...
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