Mar 10 2011
Receive a free coffee – roasted locally – at the Galt Museum Store when you bring in your own cup. PLUS! If you arrived at the Galt today by bicycle, or walked from your home, you will be able to see our exhibits for free!
Article source: http://act.earthday.org/event/byoc-earth-day
Mar 2 2011
Eager to replicate the successful health care model implemented in Rwanda, in 2007 Partners In Health (PIH) launched an initiative to provide modern medical care to the people of Lesotho. 
Because of the remoteness of the region, the danger of transporting fuel and the need for a clean and sustainable supply of electricity, PIH has again partnered with SELF to bring solar power to a network of ten community health clinics.
SELF is utilizing our successful hybrid solar PV/diesel generator system which will provide 90% or more of the power needed using only the sun. Diesel generators are available as a back-up during prolonged heavy usage or in periods of rain.
Lesotho – a small, mountainous nation of 2 million people located entirely within the borders of South Africa – suffers from the third highest rate of HIV infection and the fourth highest rate of Tuberculosis (TB) in the world. A staggering 1 in 4 adults is HIV-positive and life expectancy has plummeted to less than 35 years. Ninety percent of the population lives outside the capital with limited or no access to even the most basic health care services.
Mar 2 2011
Solar Sister is doing something in trying to change this situation, by empowering women in rural areas of Uganda get out of poverty by becoming Solar sister enterprenuers.
Women are the heart and soul in any business if they put their mind to it.
Yet many women today in rural areas of Uganda are stay home mothers with out an income of their own. They depend entirely on what their husbands have to bring to the table.
