SELF Named A Finalist for the 2002 Tech Museum of Innovation Awards, 2002

The Tech Museum Awards honor innovators and visionaries from around the world who are applying technology to profoundly improve the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible.

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Vietnam Women's Union Wins Prestigious Energy Globe Award, 2002

The Energy Globe Award honours outstanding initiatives in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources from all over the world.   SELF is pleased to announce that our project partner, the Vietnam Women's Union, was awarded with the 2002 prize.

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SELF Brings Solar power and Satellite Internet Access to Brazilian Rainforest, 2002

In February 2002, SELF introduced solar power and satellite Internet access to the remote Xixuaú-Xipariná Ecological Reserve in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.  The new system is designed to improve health, education, and economic opportunity for Caboclo Indians, and to strengthen scientific research in this fragile and important ecosystem.

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SELF Wins Global Green Environmental Award, 1998

The Green Cross Millennium Awards, established in 1996, recognize and herald those who embody the mission of  "fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable future."

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SELF Board Member, Freeman Dyson, Honored with Prestigious Templeton Award, 1999

Recipients of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion represent a brilliantly diverse spectrum of disciplines, personalities, and spiritual backgrounds, yet they all share at least one thing in common: Each showed outstanding humanitarianism in their pursuits.

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A Solar Lighting Project Planned for the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, 2000

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