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The end of energy poverty? Developing nations invest $112 billion in renewable energy

From Azerbaijan--where the wind blows 250 days per year--to the swift moving current of Zimbabwe’s bountiful rivers, developing countries worldwide are increasing efforts to invest in renewable energy.

Sustainable Energy

Interview: Bringing light and stoves to rural East Timor

Lack of energy access does more then keep households in the dark: it also limits economic development and exacerbates health problems. An interview with Will Barron about innovative ways to make solar electricity and efficient cookstoves available in the marketplace in Timor-Leste.

Renewable energy could increase by up to 50 times current production with the right support in Yemen. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363486@N01/1462086624/">Mike Weston (Flickr)</a>

Social Enterprise

Social startup hits barriers of capital and stability in Yemen

An exciting all-women startup in Yemen has great ideas to solve an energy crisis but needs more than a good business plan to be commercially successful.

Sustainable Energy

Sun queens: Barefoot College women turn on the lights in off-grid villages

Solar Sister entrepreneurs earn commissions for the sale of solar energy products to people who need them. Photo: <a href="http://www.solarsister.org/">Solar Sister</a>

Sustainable Energy

Solar Sister: Lighting up livelihoods from one sister to another

A recent CNN article explains how one group in east Africa aims to help women create economic opportunities and eradicate energy poverty at the same time through commission-based sales of solar products

SELCO Technician installing solar panels. Credit: SELCO

Sustainable Energy

SELCO: A shining star in market-driven social enterprise

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor

In India, one iconoclastic solar company employs deep knowledge of the ways communities use energy to overthrow the traditional means of bringing power to the people.