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15

Jul

How much light is enough?

Kerosene lamps provide limited light, emit bad-smelling smoke and soot and are plagued with injury and death caused by accidental fires. If one could replace them all with low cost solar lamps, one would remove the danger of accident, and improve rural life. This is essentially the model that drives the market of solar portable […]
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06

Feb

The Kudura as a triple-win sustainable development solution

The last six months or so I have been writing my bachelor project at the University of Roskilde in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in relation to this I have studied triple-win solutions and RVE.SOL´s Kudura sustainable development solution in particular. This study involved an evaluation of Kudura in terms of its social, economic and environmental impact. […]
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27

Sep

Triple-win solutions

I have been asked to write some more about the triple-win solutions, which I will gladly do! But to be able to explain the concept better, I will first briefly define the concept of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development was defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in 1987 in […]
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