The AirBnb boom in Ethiopia In 2018, I had the opportunity to visit The impressive monolithic carved temples located at the mountain top town of Lalibela, Ethiopia. The destination attracts thousands of local and international tourists every year, and this
The global market for kerosene used as a source of light is estimated to be $37 billion per year. This represents an enormous cost for the hundreds of millions of families that turn to burning fuels because they don’t have
In 1997, Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary, had the vision to use LED lighting to bring practical, economical, and environmentally safe lighting to the developing world. While on sabbatical in Nepal, Dave
Working together to make sure humanity has a better future We just finished our last project of 2019 with one of our main corporate partners, Wooree, at a junior high school in Hanchipacha, Pitumarca (Cusco). This past year in this
The following video was created by Rundle College student Amanda Lang. Last year when Amanda was in grade eleven, she travelled to Peru with Rundle and Light Up the World. Amanda describes the experience she had as life changing. Amanda
In 2015, The UN reached a major milestone by releasing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals SDGs for 2030 which Ban Ki Moon (the General Secretary at the time) called “humanities’ Plan A” as there was no Plan B “because there is no planet B” .
Sol is 7 years old. Her name means “Sun”. And it felt like some kind of poetic justice that my first solar project as a volunteer started in a school in rural Peru with Sol, or the “Sun”, following me
SAIT Electrical Engineering Students getting ready to embark on a volunteer based project in Peru with a goal of installing a PV systems in one of the remote off-grid communities. Last year our group has made a successful trip
Mery and Gamaniel live in a rural community high up in the Peruvian Andes. Although the grid has been next to their home for twenty years, they have never had electricity. When the sun was down they cooked and worked
