In this video, our founder Andrew Duggan lays out a detailed plan for how renewable energy can create global quality of life.
Mr. Duggan traveled to over 25 countries as an energy consultant, including both industrialized and developing nations, and has seen firsthand the human costs of energy scarcity.
How far would YOU go to provide electricity for your family? Every year Mexican citizens are killed and injured trying to steal electrical power by attaching makeshift wires to high-voltage lines.
Recent articles have discussed the financial loss to the utility companies and the difficulty of "cracking down" on these electricity "pirates." We don’t think a crackdown is the solution. We believe that these struggling border communities could be enriched with small-scale solar and wind power; and we believe that there would be no need to steal, risking injury or death, if we help them to harness the free energy provided every day by our environment.
Amid what Mother Teresa called “the world’s most destitute” community, a group of humanitarians called Responsibility have created a school that is bright, clean, and full of life, to serve the children of hundreds of families of pepenadores, people who earn their living scavenging the municipal dump for recyclables.
In the past, many of the children were destined to follow in their parents’ footsteps and continue the cycle of a marginal existence. Now, thanks to this school, there is real hope. But there are still challenges to overcome.
For the last year or so, says Lily, one of their teachers, there has been no electric light for the classrooms, because people keep stealing the electrical wires that power the school.