CNN's 'Global Challenges' Features SELF's Project in Northern Nigeria
CNN's monthly series 'Global Challenges' travels around the world to bring feature reports on sustainable development, focusing on small-scale community projects, such as SELF's solar project in the Nigeria, and innovative ideas that change our world. This program aims to reveal how various fields of science and technology help to improve quality of life.
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CNN's 'Global Challenges' Spotlights SELF's Amazon Project
See how solar technology and satellite communications are changing healthcare and education for Caboclo Indians deep in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Massive Change Interview with SELF's Executive Director
Massive Change Radio was created and hosted by Jennifer Leonard, co-author with Bruce Mau of Massive Change (Phaidon Press, 2004), and broadcasted on the University of Toronto's CIUT 89.5 FM from September 2003 to June 2004. Hear first hand from SELF's Executive, Robert Freling, how solar power can transform life in rural villages.

Solar Satellite Internet in the Jungle
This powerful, two-minute video graphically depicts the benefits of solar power and wireless Internet access at Brazil's Xixuaú-Xipariná Ecological Reserve, where SELF's project aims to improve health care, education and habitat conservation.
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More on Solar Satellite Internet in the Jungle
Minnesota Public Radio reports on SELF's 2002 project at Brazil's Xixuaú-Xipariná Ecological Reserve, where solar power and satellite Internet access were introduced to improve health care, education and habitat conservation.
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South Africa - Bridging the Digital Divide
Femi Oke reports for CNN Headline News about SELF's 2000 solar school project in South Africa.  See firsthand how solar energy and satellite Internet access have affected the lives of over 800 students at Myeka High School.
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Tibetan Nomads Go Solar
CNN's World Report describes how SELF harnessed the sun to improve the difficult living conditions in desolate western China, making life brighter for thousands of nomadic families.
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Catch the Sun - Bringing Light to Sukiki
SELF's own video chronicling the solar village project in the Solomon Islands.  Watch as the villagers install their solar home systems, and rejoice with the children as they experience bright electric lights for the first time.
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Down Here in Sukiki
Renowned journalist Charles Osgood recounts SELF's story of a remote village called Sukiki in the Solomon Islands, and how solar power marked the beginning of a new era for these families.
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