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ONE teams up with CSIS around the Electrify Africa Act
Last Friday, hundreds of people braved the rain to learn more about the future of the Electrify Africa movement at Powering Africa’s Progress, an event hosted by CSIS with support from ONE. The...
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Big Brother Africa star Melvin: ‘I have won something more important than money’
Big Brother Africa star and ONE Campaign’s BBA Video Competition winner, Melvin Oduah travelled to South Africa on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty to officially present his winning...
View Article‘American Blackout’ imagines life without power
Serious question: What would happen if the power went out across America for 10 days? The National Geographic Channel explores this hypothetical situation in a new film, “American Blackout,” premiering...
View Article5 Freaky things I learned from National Geographic’s ‘American Blackout’
Intellectually, I know that 7 out of 10 people (589 million people) in sub-Saharan Africa lack reliable energy access, which means women are giving birth in dark hospitals, vaccines aren’t being...
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Chijioke Okonkwo: Why energy access is vital to African development
Chijioke Obinna Okonkwo is a ONE volunteer in Dallas originally from Nigeria. Here he recalls what it was like growing up with limited access to electricity and why he continues to fight against energy...
View ArticleEthiopia partners with Reykjavik Geothermal to increase energy access
Ethiopia is eager to realize its geothermal potential. The Danakil Depression in the Dallol geothermal area. Photo credit: Business Insider Reykjavik Geothermal recently signed an agreement with the...
View ArticleAfrican energy and Hans Rosling’s ‘magic washing machine’
For the last week I’ve been in Ethiopia speaking with our Africa Policy Advisory Board, citizens and colleagues about the big development issues that African countries are grappling with. A fair amount...
View ArticleONE CEO Michael Elliott interviewed in Origin Magazine
What inspires Michael Elliott to do the work that he does? Origin Magazine, a publication on art, culture and the conscious lifestyle, interviews ONE’s president and CEO on his motivation to lead our...
View ArticleSara Isaac: My day without electricity
University of Michigan ONE Campus volunteer Sara Isaac decided to go 24 hours without using electricity. What she found surprised and frustrated her, and gave her the motivation to keep speaking out...
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4 Thanksgiving electricity facts that will boggle your mind
This Thanksgiving, I know my family will be using a lot of electricity – something that 7 in 10 sub-Saharan Africans don’t have access to. My household needs it for everything: cooking, making the...
View ArticleAndi Moore: I was treated for malaria in a hospital without power
Andi Moore is a missionary with the January 2013 O Squad of the World Race. Andi and her teammates spent 11 months traveling to 11 different countries serving God and partnering with local ministries....
View ArticleEnergy, environment and the omnibus
As part of the omnibus appropriations bill for 2014, negotiators agreed to include language that exempts certain poor- and middle- income countries from both the OPIC carbon cap and the new carbon...
View ArticleAfrica Clean Energy Corridor: Harnessing Africa’s renewable potential
Energy ministers and delegates from 19 African countries met in Abu Dhabi last week to commit to the creation of an ambitious initiative: the Africa Clean Energy Corridor. The corridor, an...
View ArticleObama’s Power Africa Initiative, six months later
Power lines in South Africa. Photo credit: ForwardM2010 via Flickr It has been six months since President Obama first introduced the Power Africa Initiative. Here are four areas where the Initiative,...
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Making clean energy affordable far from the city
This story was originally posted on Mercy Corps’ blog. Written by Alba Topulli. Many families in rural northern Uganda face numerous health and safety issues from using kerosene for light and open...
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Let there be light… and public-private partnerships
Though the Electrify Africa Act to bring electricity to 50 million Africans for the first time might be federal legislation, that doesn’t mean that the US government is working alone. High investment...
View ArticleDear Congress: Support the Electrify Africa Act
In exactly one week, ONE members from across the US will be meeting with over 200 members of Congress on Capitol Hill. And you know what we’d love for them to say in those meetings? Thank you. Thank...
View ArticleWho are the heroes of sustainable development?
Often, creating sustainable development projects can go unrecognized amid other sexier, more immediate development stories. Yet, the folks at OPIC, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation whose...
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Why Kenya’s school laptops program is not the answer
Education, batteries not included. By Phil Goodwin, Lifeline Energy. The Kenyan government is delivering on an election promise and has awarded a supply contract for 1.2 million laptops to be given to...
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Georgia Regents hosts Rep. Barrow for an exciting kickoff event
By Kaylee Key, campus leader of ONE Campus at Georgia Regents University St. Patrick’s Day marked a very exciting day for ONE Campus members at Georgia Regents University. It was our lucky day in...
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