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The guru of solar power: "Solar works"
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In the village of Chapaldi in Andhra Pradesh, India, women make fuel from pongamia seeds and use it to power the village's electricity micro-grid and irrigation pumps. Every family pays the women's association with 7 kilograms of seeds per week for electricity, while local farmers pay an additional fee to run their pumps. In 2003, the women leveraged their seeds even further when their association sold 900 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions reductions to Germany for $4,164 - the equivalent of a year's income for the entire village.
- Worldwatch Institute
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Fossil Fuel
