ABOUT ONE DEGREE SOLAR
One Degree Solar was founded to help governments and aid organizations expand access to basic health and education services. Our staff and advisers have backgrounds in international public health and years of work experience in post-conflict countries. We came together with the primary objective to provide durable, affordable, and clean lighting and energy options in areas where people are dependent on candles, kerosene, and diesel fuel. To support these causes, we provide customers that use our products for a variety of activities with the option to buy online.
As an organization, we aim to keep a low-carbon footprint and maintain end-to-end business practices that minimize our impact on the environment. We ship with recycled packaging by USPS, the only Cradle to Cradle certified courier in the United States. We use only recycled packaging while manufacturing and recycled paper for marketing and office materials, in addition to using Energy-star office equipment and computers with a minimum Silver EPEAT rating.
Products and projects designed by One Degree Solar have been receiving positive press and recognition from development partners. Data from a recent project in the most remote villages of Liberia, West Africa, has shown that our Solar Headlamps Kit is helping to improve the quality of and access to healthcare. Our proposals for solar lighting initiatives in Liberia have been selected as finalists in the September 2009 Ideablob.com/Advanta Corporation Competition and the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge, and have also been nominated by USAID for a $50,000 cash grant from the Tech Awards. Our work is scheduled to be featured in articles by Voice of America, Devex.com, and Africa Investor Magazine.
We are driven by customer service, product quality, durability, international development, and sustainability. A percentage of all profits will go towards our projects in developing countries.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
One Degree Solar has called in The Extraordinaries to help them document the positive usage of solar energy in communities throughout the world.
Download The Extraordinaries iPhone app, and get involved today:
http://download.BeExtra.org
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Kim Bale is the Community Outreach Intern for The Extraordinaries. She has also been published in Curve Magazine.
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