{"id":10783,"date":"2010-07-01T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2010-07-01T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:10:24","slug":"solar-lamp-wins-award-for-helping-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=10783","title":{"rendered":"Solar lamp wins award for helping developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Indoor air pollution by Kerosene fumes kills 1.5m people per year <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The developers of a solar lamp that aims to replace kerosene-burning lights in developing countries have won a prestigious environmental award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D Light Design says its lanterns, which sell for around $10 (\u00c2\u00a37), contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the runners-up for the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy was the Rural Energy Foundation (REF) for promoting solar energy in Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 70% of sub-Saharan Africa has no access to electricity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D Light takes home the \u00c2\u00a340,000 ($61,000) Gold Award, for &#8220;its passion and dedication to the cause of ridding the developing world of the health and pollution problems associated with the use of kerosene lighting&#8221;, the judges said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company, set up by Indian entrepreneurs, says indoor air pollution by Kerosene fumes kills 1.5m people per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the entrepreneurs said: &#8220;This will do to kerosene what mobile phones did to letters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The judges were particularly impressed with their highly effective marketing strategy which has put solar lighting within reach of over a million people in 32 countries with significant potential for further expansion,&#8221; the Ashden Awards said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the awards body, in three years REF has helped 300,000 people in nine Africa countries gain access to solar energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indoor air pollution by Kerosene fumes kills 1.5m people per year The developers of a solar lamp that aims to replace kerosene-burning lights in developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[3907,3908,3909,3910],"class_list":["post-10783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-ashden-award-for-sustainable-energy","tag-d-light-design","tag-solar-lamps","tag-solar-lanterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}