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What's Your Next Big Thing? It Could Be LightUp!

What’s Your Next Big Thing? It Could Be LightUp!

Here’s how a billion people now without electricity could light up their world, improve their health, and join the global economy — by 2020. With LightUp, they could buy, and pay off in under two years, small photovoltaic solar panels with batteries that power LED lights and charge phones, for less than they now spend on kerosene. Established firms would… Read more →

LightUp: An Investment to Change the World

LightUp: An Investment to Change the World

Dear Colleague From Daniel Kammen and Felix Kramer, who hope to engage you in an effort to transform energy access around the planet, and open up a new avenue of corporate impact investing. We are pleased to present to you: LightUp. ELEVATOR PITCH How could a billion people now without electricity light up their world, improve their health, and join… Read more →

How a single multinational corporation could light up the world

How a single multinational corporation could light up the world

Published in The Guardian’s Sustainable Business section, September 24, 2014 With international cash reserves already in the bank, even one big US company could singlehandedly improve 1 billion lives, deal a blow to global inequality and slash carbon emissions – while making money By Daniel M Kammen and Felix Kramer With international cash reserves already in the bank, even one… Read more →

Did We Just Find a Cool Trillion Dollars for Green Energy Projects?

Did We Just Find a Cool Trillion Dollars for Green Energy Projects?

  This article was published on September 23, 2014 at Huffington Post By Felix Kramer and Daniel Kammen As we gather in NY and around the world for ClimateWeek Here’s a big idea that’s expresses the frustration, discontent, and anger we feel about how hard it is to bring about the changes we need to address climate change. It’s increasingly… Read more →