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Can you hear me now? Indian villagers walk miles for mobile phone charge - Green Daily - 0 views

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shared by Sergio Ferreira on 28 Dec 07 - Cached

village in India without electricity, residents have to walk 12 miles to a neighbouring town to charge their mobile phones. Poverty and isolation mean that the phones are key to communicating with the outside world in the event of emergencies
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Africa's Chance - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 02 Nov 07 - Cached

Amid an AIDS epidemic, against the drumbeat of regional conflicts, overshadowed by the most abject poverty, it is easy to miss the glimmer of hope in sub-Saharan Africa. Rising prices of raw materials are helping the region achieve its best economic performance since independence.
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Nanogrid Market to Reach Nearly $60 Billion in Annual Vendor Revenue by 2023 - 0 views

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trends copper microgrid nanogrid

shared by Colin Bennett on 25 Mar 14 - No Cached

At its essence, a nanogrid is simply a small microgrid, typically serving a single building or a single load.  Nanogrids, however, have the ability to fill increasingly important niches within the larger power sector, serving as modular building blocks for energy services that support applications ranging from emergency power for commercial buildings to the provision of basic electricity services for people living in extreme poverty. 
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Africa left behind - 2 views

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trends copper urbanization Africa

shared by Colin Bennett on 20 Sep 16 - No Cached

Colin Bennett on 20 Sep 16

Africa is the world's fastest urbanising continent. In 1950, sub-Saharan Africa had no cities with populations of more than 1m. Today, it has around 50. By 2030, over half of the continent's population will live in cities, up from around a third now. The fastest growing metropolises, such as Nairobi, Kenya's capital, are expanding at rates of more than 4% per year. That is almost twice as fast as Houston, America's fastest-growing metropolis.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Africa is the world's fastest urbanising continent. In 1950, sub-Saharan Africa had no cities with populations of more than 1m. Today, it has around 50. By 2030, over half of the continent's population will live in cities, up from around a third now. The fastest growing metropolises, such as Nairobi, Kenya's capital, are expanding at rates of more than 4% per year. That is almost twice as fast as Houston, America's fastest-growing metropolis.</div>

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Global electricity access grows - but it's still not on track for the SDGs - 1 views

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Trends Copper Access Energy Electricity UN poverty

shared by Colin Bennett on 28 Jun 19 - No Cached

How to prevent city climate action from becoming 'green gentrification' - 4 views

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Trends Copper Smartcities

shared by Colin Bennett on 03 Jan 20 - No Cached

Hans De Keulenaer on 06 Jan 20

'Green gentrification', the global equivalent for the terms 'energy poverty' and 'fair transition' in the EU. A genuine issue for broader society. The copper perspective: energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, electrical safety.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">'Green gentrification', the global equivalent for the terms 'energy poverty' and 'fair transition' in the EU. A genuine issue for broader society. The copper perspective: energy efficiency, cost-effectiveness, electrical safety.</div>

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