Field Notes From Tanzania – Pt. 4: Off-Grid Lodges Powered & Heated with Solar

by David Mazur-Goulet | Apr 12, 2017 | Learn

Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Northern Tanzania contains some of the most well-known tourist destinations in the world – Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and...

Field Notes From Tanzania – Pt. 3: Increasing Crop Value with a Solar Dryer

by David Mazur-Goulet | Mar 27, 2017 | Learn

Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Climate change is already hurting farm families in Tanzania.  The `short’ rains that normally fall in November and December just did not come...

Field Notes From Tanzania – Pt. 2: Solar Systems Financed Through Mobile Phone Banking

by David Mazur-Goulet | Mar 10, 2017 | Learn

Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Apaikunda Pallangyo and her family are farmers in rural Tanzania. She hosts a Farm Radio International radio `listening group’ of eight other...

Field Notes From Tanzania – Part 1: Innovative Use of Solar Radios

by David Mazur-Goulet | Feb 27, 2017 | Learn

Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. If you are poor farmer in rural Tanzania with cell phone service but no electric power or internet, how do you get ahead? First you form a...