Staying Active: Boston to Yele
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD February 11, 2012 The Spring semester has started here in Boston, but I still find myself thinking of Yele often. In an exciting recent development, one of our team members, Laila, moved to Sierra Leone to manage the project and be our eyes and ears on the ground. I debriefed her [...]
Fulbright Scholar heads to Ghana
Anna Waldman-Brown, a joint major in Physics and Writing and Humanistic Studies, president of MIT’s Lab for Chocolate Science, former Public Service Center Fellow and Global Challenge winner was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2011-2012 school year. This scholarship takes her to Ghana to design educational materials to help teachers and students develop energy [...]
Sanergy: converting waste to electricity and fertilizer, one toilet at a time
Sanergy, a team of MIT students led by Ani Vallabhaneni (Sloan, ’11) and David Auerbach (Sloan, ’11), traveled to Nairobi, Kenya during the summer of 2010, IAP 2011, and summer 2011, through the PSC Grants program. Ani and David developed a business model where waste from toilets is collected and converted into fertilizer and electricity, [...]
Village-scale energy solutions
In 2005, the Solar Turbine Group, now known as STG International, won an IDEAS Competition award for their parabolic trough reflectors that provide clean and affordable energy to villages. Now, five years later, the team, led by Matthew Orosz MNG ’03, SM ’06, a doctoral student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, is thriving and was [...]
Assembling a Kiwia Charger
On the way back from Nadosoito, Tanzania. Bernard assembles a Global Cycle Solutions Kiwia Charger for a trial customer. What began as a D-Lab trip to Tanzania for Jodie Wu’09, then a sophomore, has turned into something much greater than Wu herself could have predicted. Wu saw firsthand that simple agricultural technologies were not reaching [...]
Testing the Global Cycle Solutions maize sheller
In Arusha, Tanzania, two young girls testing Global Cycle Solutions’ Maize Sheller, a technology developed by Jodie Wu ’09. Read more about Global Cycle Solutions on January 26, 2011 Photo: Philemon Kivuyo
