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Portable Light Project

Beautiful projects that aims at delivering de-centralized renewable power and light to the developing world. The Portable Light Project (http://portablelight.org/) is a non-profit research, design and engineering initiative established by KVA MATx that creates new ways to deliver de-centralized renewable power and light to the developing world. Each Portable Light unit is a simple, versatile textile with flexible photovoltaics and solid state lighting that can be adapted to local cultures and customized by people using traditional weaving and sewing technologies in an open source model. This creates the opportunity for greater levels of cultural acceptance and stewardship of this technology, particularly for women who are often among the most vulnerable in developing countries.


What about not distributing the units, but instead the materials and the instructions to built their own.

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