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Only 3% of households in Badakhshan, Northern Afghanistan have electricity. In May last year the German development agency GIZ and engineering company Integration jointly won an Ashden Award for electrifying rural communities in North East Afghanistan through hydropower.
The 2013 Ashden Awards are on 20 June.
Currently there are 59 species that are considered threatened or declining, including harbour porpoise and ringed seals.
Please sign the petition to save the Baltic Sea: http://raceforthebaltic.com/home.php
World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013, After Record 2012
Even amid policy uncertainty in major wind power markets, wind developers still managed to set a new record for installations in 2012, with 44,000 megawatts of new wind capacity worldwide.
Suraj Wahab, CEO of Toyola Energy, talks to the BBC World Service about what it takes to get a small business off the ground in Ghana. Suraj was awarded the prestigous 2011 International Ashden Gold Award for his credit scheme for cleaner cookstoves. Find out more: www.ashden.org/winners/toyola11
Harnessing Indonesia's plentiful water resources to power rural communities: Tri Mumpuni, Founder of IBEKA: Ashden winner 2012.
Download a detailed case study and a film of their work here.
IBEKA photos on Flickr
Good Eigg: the Scottish island that runs on renewables.
"My other car is a bike"
Ghent City Council won a Eurostar Ashden Award for Sustainable Travel in 2012 for creating a cycling culture. Download a detailed case study and a film of its work here.
Find more photos of Ghent's award-winning work on Flickr.
LED chandeliers anyone?
The National Trust won an Ashden UK Gold Award in 2012 for its impressive energy saving work across its Welsh properties, demonstrating that even the most sensitive buildings can be made much more energy efficient. This is LED lighting being installed at Plas Newydd. You can find out more and watch a film of the award-winning work here.
Find more photos on Flickr.
Remember mullets?
Liftshare won an Ashden Award in 2012 for offering a friendlier, greener, cheaper way to travel. Download a detailed case study and a film of its work here.
Find more Liftshare photos on Flickr.
Who said wind turbines aren’t beautiful?
Energy4All won an Ashden Award in 2012 for enabling communities to take ownership of sustainable energy. Find out more and watch a film about its work here.
You can find more Energy4All photos on Flickr.
Fancy your chances as an eco-warrior?
Find out about 2012 Ashden Award winner Student Switch Off, galvanising university students to save energy.
Student Switch Off 2012 on Flickr.
Save the date: Ashden Conference 19 June 2013
We’re delighted to announce that the 2013 Ashden Conference will be held at the Royal Society on 19 June. This will be an opportunity to hear from some of the finalists for the 2013 Ashden Awards and to participate in debate on how we can make progress towards building a low-carbon future.
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Santa Monica's Ferris wheel is the only solar-powered Ferris Wheel on the planet. Take a look!
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M-PESA/Safaricom
In much of the developing world, credit and debit cards have never caught on, since the telecom networks needed to support their use doesn’t exist. In those same places, however, mobile phone use has exploded. In a phenomenon known as “leapfrogging,” the wires needed to power traditional card-based transactions might never get installed, since everyone will just use their phones instead.
In Kenya, mobile operator Safaricom has developed M-PESA, a way to transfer money and make microloans using text messages — no bank account required. Unlike in, say, the U.S., mobile payments have taken off in Kenya thanks to M-PESA, with millions of users. The company is working on rolling out the service to other countries where a lack of financial and technological infrastructure could cease to be a barrier to joining the 21st-century economy.
Photo: Sipa via AP Images
Ahem. There are just under three months to go to the 2013 Ashden Awards. Just saying.
