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Let There Be Light: LEDs powered by Microbial Fuel Cells
A enlightening hole full of crap and trash won a $200,000 grant from the World Bank. More specifically, Lebônê Solutions is one of 16 winners in the World Bank’s Lighting Africa 2008 Development Competition for their work on implementing Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) to provide light to rural Africans that are currently stranded in the dark.
In most African countries, 95% of the population is living off-grid with no access to electricity. Lebone's solution is the implementation of a combination of highly efficient PLED lights powered by MFCs. These fuel cells run on animal and plant waste and naturally occurring soil microbes.
AfriCampy
The other day I was listening to music on my iTunes and I saw that the next song in the cue was going to be, African by H2O Feat.
Sweet Device Of The Week: Life Straw
They Say...Half of the world's poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people - mainly children - die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.
LifeStraw® water purifiers have been developed as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives, as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water by the year 2015
I say.. Lets start giving 'em out ASAP. Start in Burma.
I'd like to... Introduce myself
Ghetto... Bass... Quake...
I just got done djing in San Francisco's Bay View district for an Earth Day event. It, along with the adjacent Hunter's Point, is a neighborhood that could be characterized by the word Ghetto. A neighborhood with a high rate of crime, a high portion of the residents are poor, the majority are non-white, and it's probably the last neighborhood in San Francisco with a high percentage of African-Americans. There is the threat of redevelopment and displacement. There is a presence of drug use and trade.
Non Stop African House Party
In my inbox the other day arrived a Coupe Decale mixtape from San Francisco's Chief Boima. It was awesome, like nothing I've heard before, not just straight African stuff but a house party style mash up with Bashment, Juke & Hip Hop. So fresh.I started trying to write a post but realized I know bugger all about Coupe Decale so I gave up and asked the man himself to fill us in. Hi Chief Boima. How's it going?Hi Vamanos, Let's Go!...Things are good out here in cloudy California. Tell me about Coupe Decale music.
