Supporting Kenyans in the fight against coal country

Last week the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held its annual convening in Baku, Azerbaijan. I had the amazing honor of attending with the local Kenyan grassroots coalition deCOALonize, who are working tirelessly to stop the construction of a massive coal power plant in Lamu, a precious world heritage site in coastal Kenya and cradle of […]

Energy Access: Powering Health Care

Last week the United Nations Foundation held its Powering Health Care Conference here in Nairobi. I moderated a panel of fantastic researchers as we explored what the data says about the link between clean energy access and health care. The statistics were staggering — health care facilities with reliable electricity supply perform better in number […]

The e-Jeenpey Journey: EVs making in-roads in the Philippines

Throwback! I recently came across an old blog post I wrote while at ERG. I was in the Philippines, tracking the progress of the iCSC’s eJeepney, a locally retrofitted all electric version of the local Filipino jeepney, itself a retooled army jeep used for public transport. I got to see first hand how the eJeepney’s […]