Green Diva’s Guide to a New World Vision: Energy Cures
If a woman hauls water for 4 hours a day, her chances of escaping poverty are low.
The cost of change: 15 cents. According to E+Co website
This is an image of Wind Water for Life program, helping to revitalize abanonded wind turbines for water pumps in Senegal to serve over 50 communities, improving water supply and quality to almost 30,000 people. This and projects like it throughout the developing countries of the world, are supported in part by E+Co, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering local groups to create safe, clean energy sources for their communities.
I’ve had the joy of meeting the powerhouse founder and CEO of E+Co, Phil LaRocco. Formerly Director of World Trade and Economic Development for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he oversaw the NY World Trade Center and a network of international offices, Mr. LaRocco has used his background to pioneer an enterprise-centered model for clean energy implementation. He has made over ninety investments in energy enterprises in over thirty developing countries.
Of course, he would insist on being called Phil rather than Mr. LaRocco. His energy is timeless (pun intended) and his sense of adventure quite intact. He was brave enough to come to the studio with my business partner, Jenifer O’Neill and I for our wacky, weekly radio show. We laughed heartily in between talking about some of the serious issues he deals with in his work.
An informative slide show on E+Co’s website helps to illustrate how poverty and unsafe, dirty energy are still serious problems, but also offers some solutions.
E+Co has sponsored a major fund-raising and awareness campaign called Energy Cures, which helps connect the dots between global poverty, dirty energy and how helping to solve one helps resolve the other. According to their website:
1.6 billion people live without electricity
2.4 billion people use dirty, dangerous fuels for cooking
Please visit both the websites for this awesome organization and read more about the important work they are doing and how you can participate.
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