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Bright Lights, Big Impact 19 Aug 2013 | 08:54 am
We distributed 205 d.light S250 solar lanterns in Kenya’s Western Province in 2012 through a partnership with Action for Child Development Trust (ACDT). Kakamega and Busia counties encompass towns c...
Another giftcard 29 Jul 2013 | 11:30 am
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Confessions, Performances, Discontents and d.lights 29 Jul 2013 | 07:39 am
A few weeks ago, after one of my night-time research blitzes, I was passing by a church in Lifau when the hum of the motorbike was interrupted by beautiful singing. A choir of nine women was in the mi...
Crafting Creativity Without Electricity 25 Jul 2013 | 03:37 pm
Is the sun’s energy visible? Can we feel it? How can the sun’s energy be used to face challenges around the world? Students throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been discussing these questions d...
Switching US Students On to Off-Grid Problems 16 Jul 2013 | 02:33 pm
Is the sun’s energy visible? Can we feel it? How can the sun’s energy be used to face challenges around the world? Students throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have been discussing these questions d...
Luminosity, Feeling, Play and Work 11 Jul 2013 | 07:02 am
In what concerns d.light solar lights, or any other kind of light, allow me to recall the words of Tim Ingold, who in his article ‘Stop, Look and Listen!’ (published in The Perception of the Environme...
Kopernik Partners with Japan Airlines 28 Jun 2013 | 01:42 pm
Content thumbnail: JAL & Kopernik.jpg Launch of “Connecting People to People, Bridging Japan and the World” ~ JAL and Kopernik partner to alleviate poverty in developing countries ~ TOKYO, June ...
Rapidly Refining Research Methods 26 Jun 2013 | 02:36 pm
To date, I have conducted about 50 surveys. Surveys are fairly routine affairs; a list of questions and a range of answers that eventually becomes predictable. There are, moreover, methodological limi...
What d.lights Do: Profile of a Semi-Subsistence Household 26 Jun 2013 | 02:33 pm
For most of Timor-Leste’s ethnic groups, a woman who marries will take up residence in the village of her new husband. Although this traditional arrangement generally applies to the Vaiqueno (Meto-spe...
What d.lights Do: Profile of a Subsistence Household 26 Jun 2013 | 02:14 pm
Domingas Tabatan lives with her two youngest children in the village of Cabana, Suni-Ufe Foholeten, Nitibe subdistrict. This is not a coastal roadside village. Although in the first year of Indonesian...
