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		<title>Free Energy For Everyone! Our First Pilot in Malawi:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to an amazing partnership with BuildON and Energy For Opportunity we had a very successful first pilot on our renewable education tract. Over a three day workshop we taught 17 teachers from 4 different communities in the Kasungu District how to do basic electrical, and basic solar maintenance, and a solar installation. Simon Willans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/06/free-energy-for-everyone-our-first-pilot-in-malawi/</link>
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		<title>Sunshine &amp; Cell Towers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>As we travel around Malawi prepping for our first pilot, we have come across some brilliant minds in development- here's a post from Owen Scott, one of the Engineers without Borders crew. </em>
<a href="http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/05/sunshine-cell-towers/6a00d83451e98869e20111689d5f85970c-800wi/" rel="attachment wp-att-242"><img src="http://lightupmalawi.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/6a00d83451e98869e20111689d5f85970c-800wi-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="solar powered cell tower" width="400" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-242" /></a>
Can solar panels be “the next cell phone” in rural Africa? Although far from relevant to my main line of work, at a few random moments the back corners of my mind have been working overtime on this question. If this sounds random, that’s because…it is. Still, let me elaborate.]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/05/sunshine-cell-towers/</link>
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		<title>MALAWI: Technology to Save Forests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poverty and population growth in the country are placing escalating pressures on Malawi's indigenous forests which, the ministry of environment says, translates into an annual destruction of approximately 50,000 to 70,000 hectares of forest.]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/03/energy-malawi-technology-to-save-forests/</link>
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		<title>Africa: Continent Underachieving in Development of &#8216;Green&#8217; Energy Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All Africa.com March 3, 2010 Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and &#8216;green&#8217; energy remaining largely under-exploited, warned a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A UNEP assessment noted that the entire continent has just over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/03/africa-continent-underachieving-in-development-of-green-energy-economy-un-report/</link>
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		<title>Africa: Giving Up on Grids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By G. Pascal Zachary originally from Technology Review In Kenya, one million households use car batteries as their main source of electricity. From Lagos to Nairobi, even the poorest slum dwellers are driven to purchase fuel that can create power to charge cell-phone batteries and provide light. In all, more than half of Africans south [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/01/africa-giving-up-on-grids/</link>
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		<title>Energy.gov &#124; Fact Sheet: Clean Energy Announcements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today at the Copenhagen climate conference, on behalf of President Obama, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the launch of a new initiative to promote clean energy technologies in developing countries.  Secretary Chu also welcomed progress under the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) and invited his counterparts in MEF and other countries to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/01/energy-gov-fact-sheet-clean-energy-announcements/</link>
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		<title>Light UP Malawi Selected as an Unreasonable Institute Finalist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce that Light Up Malawi will be featured on the Unreasonable Institute Marketplace to participate in the final round of a competition that will secure investors, advisors and put us on the fast track to making this idea a success.We&#8217;ve made the cut down from 284 amazing ideas to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lightupmalawi.org/2010/01/hello-world/</link>
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