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A request for solar street lighting resources
Started this discussion. Last reply by Rodd Eddy Apr 10, 2014. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Hi all,I am working on a community center development in my town (Eureka, CA, USA).Off-grid solar street lights have been identified as a good solution to provide night lighting for the park as…Continue
is anyone already working with (or) how can we start working with MSF?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Yotam Ariel Jul 18, 2013. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Had a good cry this weekend watching: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)…Continue
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Patricia Lai replied to Yotam Ariel's discussion Social Auditing Labor Conditions at the Chinese Factories Producing the Solar Products and Parts"Many thanks for this post. This is a really important topic to bring to the forefront. Humanity, ethics, cradle to cradle, responsibility...
It would be interesting to hear from others what their experience (+/-) has been dealing with labor…"
Rodd Eddy replied to Patricia Lai's discussion A request for solar street lighting resources"Patricia
there are many different products available, from street lights to bollards to in ground area wash lights - all solar. i think you need to determine what you are actually wanting to achieve, and a solution could be provided around…"
Fritz Raake replied to Patricia Lai's discussion A request for solar street lighting resources"Hi Patricia,
you might contact Don Noot don@onestopgreen.com in Texas. Different options & plenty of experience.
Sunny Regards,
Fritz"
Naturally Solar replied to Patricia Lai's discussion A request for solar street lighting resources"From pure trial and error, testing 7 different solar street light modules we finally found that the Envirolight CK1208 (8W) and CK3616 (16W) outperformed all others. We are a year into an in situ test. The lights are positioned along a lagoon…"
Yotam Ariel replied to Patricia Lai's discussion A request for solar street lighting resources"
Try here: http://bennu-solar.com/solar-street-lights/
Especially the Foesra street lights.
Hope this helps."
Patricia Lai posted a discussionA request for solar street lighting resources
Hi all,I am working on a community center development in my town (Eureka, CA, USA).Off-grid solar street lights have been identified as a good solution to provide night lighting for the park as additional grid connections are cost prohibitive at the site.I am working with the engineering firm to identify some solar street lighting options that may be a good fit for this project.Lighting Global/ Africa provides info/specs for quality assured pico-PV products, so I am wondering if there are any…See More
Yotam Ariel replied to Patricia Lai's discussion is anyone already working with (or) how can we start working with MSF?"Hi Patricia,
Thanks for sharing the fascinating movie, and great idea to contact them!
What I usually do is identify people and start contacting them -- making my way to the relevant decision makers.
Here is how I would…"
Evan Mills replied to Patricia Lai's discussion is anyone already working with (or) how can we start working with MSF?"Thanks for pointing this out to the community.
There have certainly been good experiences with illuminating rural clinics (Solar Aid and We Care Solar). I summarized some of this on pages 14-15 of this report.
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Patricia Lai posted a discussionis anyone already working with (or) how can we start working with MSF?
Had a good cry this weekend watching: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcb8tAaGjWwIn it i saw kerosene lamps in the MSF camp in Congo, and a doc in remote Liberia with only a headlamp for night lightingThe film was released in 2009/2010 so this may no longer be the case, however I would like to inquireIs anyone supplying MSF with lighting units? And, if not, how…See More
Patricia Lai commented on Yotam Ariel's blog post Is it official that ToughStuff bankrupt? Or are they just restructuring?"we learn the most from our mistakes, so we should be open and publicize them in hopes that others can learn from our errors
engineers without borders, canada has been issuing annual failure reports for just this reason…"
Patricia Lai replied to MainaMumbi's discussion Would this be correct, to say !"mambo vipi rafiki!!
excellent insight
your post gets me thinking...what about making the phone into the lantern?
it is common now to find flashlight apps for…"
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- At 2:27pm on September 26, 2014,
brendon mendonca said… haha...i just saw this. nano connectivity it is :)
nice to have a friend here, started to get pretty lonely in here!
- At 7:55pm on March 13, 2013, Evan Mills said…
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This short video demonstrates some of the solar powered agricultural machines that we have developed. All the machines are powered by 24V DC motors and every...
Evan Mills replied to Shuangyi Qian's discussion Country Data: Rwanda"Useful data in this report for…"
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Evan Mills replied to Evan Mills's discussion Country Data: Methodology"The attached new report contains interesting multi-year data on lighting fuel choices for multiple…"
iboxs Technologies( UK) replied to Evan Mills's discussion Field Projects: Africa"Project : Lighting West Africa
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