Seeing the light: Sustainable lighting as a tool for development and ecological conservation

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <h3><a href="http://www.sierraclubchinook.org">Sierra Club of Canada - Chinook Group</a> Monthly Meeting</h3><p>For more information or to RSVP: <a href="http://www.sierraclubchinook.org/">http://www.sierraclubchinook.org</a></p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Sierra Club member Grady Semmens spent 3 weeks in May 2007 visiting rural communities in central Africa with the University of Calgary-based <a href="http://www.lutw.org/">Light Up The World Foundation</a>. </p><p>The foundation is working with wilderness conservation groups in several countries to bring sustainable sources of solar-powered lighting to villages that are taking part in community-oriented conservation efforts to protect fragile wildlife habitat for species including hippos and endangered mountain gorillas. </p><p>This informative slide show will delve into the links between community development and ecological conservation and how one cannot happen without the other. </p><p>The Light Up The World Foundation has lit up more than 14,000 homes in 42 countries around the world using solid-state lighting technology.<br /></p> </div> </div></div>