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Nairobi is home to the first of a UN-created system of incubators for green business. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2629335476/in/set-72157605940042670/">World Bank (Flickr)</a>

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Can Kenya's new climate center pull green investors to Africa?

In an attempt to reposition developing economies “towards low carbon, green growth paths,” the World Bank has opened its first Climate Innovation Center in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Mobile, solar schools literally bring power to the powerless

Beep beep! For some students, hopping on the school bus is hopping into the classroom. Four communities are using solar-powered mobile classrooms to overcome inaccessibility to the power grid.

Bad roads and infrequent bus service is just one bump in the road to bringing solar to rural Uganda. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps.

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Challenges to lighting a pathway for solar in Uganda

This article is the third in a three-part series exploring the role Mercy Corps played in bringing solar power to rural Uganda.

Environmental enginnering is making clean drinking water more accessible and affordable to those who need it. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julien_harneis/589718393/sizes/n/in/photostream/">Julien Harneis (flickr)</a>

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Environmental engineering pioneers innovative clean water sources

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor

Shop owners who attended the Barefoot Power trainings were better able to market the products to interested customers. Photo: Kim Beevers/Mercy Corps.

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Lighting a pathway for solar in rural Uganda

This article is the second in a three-part series exploring the role Mercy Corps played in bringing solar power to rural Uganda.

Pader District is part of Uganda's northern region, where farming is the main livelihood and source of income. Photo: Thatcher Cook/Mercy Corps.

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PHASE ONE: Lighting a pathway for solar in rural Uganda

Phase One: The critical first step involves information, information, information.

Solar panels in Uganda. Photo: Jenny Vaughn/Mercy Corps.

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INTRO: Lighting a pathway for solar in rural Uganda

In this three-part series, we explore the role an international aid nonprofit played in convincing urban solar companies to sell their products to poor, rural farmers, and convincing poor, rural farmers to reallocate their kerosene budget to solar.

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