I’ll be heading overseas later this year to attend the World MBA Tour fair in Manila. So I’ve begun paying closer attention to news from there. Here’s an interesting development there from an “eco-entrepreneur”–using soda bottles as lights.
July 11 - A bottled liter of water with a few teaspoons of bleach is proving to be a successful recipe for dwellers in the light-deprived slums of the Philippines. The simple technology is spreading sunlight in places where it has never been, and saving residents money at the same time.
