RATHER than complain about the heat this summer, how about harnessing the power of the sun to bring electricity to a poor community? Earlier this month, the Manila city government lit up 120 houses at ...

Residents in the Philippines are tackling electricity shortages with a clever lighting solution by filling water bottles with bleach and wrapping them in sheet metal. The method harnesses sunlight and ...

MYSHELTER Foundation is pitching calls to bring eco-friendly solar bottle bulbs to low-income communities to help illuminate households through its Liter of Light program, a sustainable lighting ...

(CBS) - Imagine lighting your house with a soda bottle, water and bleach. In a small village in Manila, that's exactly what they're doing. The project is called Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light ...

MANILA, Philippines - Zonrox, the household name in bleach, has partnered with MyShelter Foundation in A Liter of Light Project, a nationwide initiative that aims to light up a million homes in the ...

Infinite Light is an infrastructure-free lantern that can be assembled anywhere. Even as countries like India race to stretch the power grid to rural areas, well over a billion people around the world ...

Thousands of small houses in low-income areas of the Philippines’ capital region are receiving ultra cheap, energy-efficient light bulbs this week. The installations are part of a broader push to ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOl4vwhwkW8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Much of what we write about here at GeekMom is high tech gadgetry, so when I say 'solar ...

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Despite what Back to the Future fans would have you believe, "where's my hoverboard?" isn't a shoe-in for the motto of 2015. "Let there be light" is a strong contender, thanks to this being Unesco's ...