Janet FraserJan 15, 2025

That feeling you get when you learn that someone somewhere has made things happen to empower women of limited education.

Bunker Roy (yes, his real name) founded Barefoot College to marry women's empowerment with the just green transition.

#empowerment #empowermentfordevelopment #ClimateSolutions #justgreentransition #SolarMamas #BarefootCollege #BunkerRoy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/15/solar-mamas-empower-our-people-by-giving-them-electricity-the-women-lighting-up-zanzibar?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar

Women with little to no formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms

The Guardian
Teemu KoskimäkiSep 13, 2023
Our new SISU consortium just got major 6-year funding from the Finnish Strategic Research Council for research that focuses on the potential of #sufficiency solutions to accelerate a #JustGreenTransition! https://www.aka.fi/en/strategic-research/strategic-research/strategic-research-in-a-nutshell/programmes-and-projects/just-transition/sisu/
SISU

Public description of the goals at the beginning of the project SISU seeks to harness the untapped potential of sufficiency solutions for a just green transition in Finland, to address overconsumption and to enhance societal wellbeing and resilience. Key actions include: Simulating green transition and sufficiency scenarios using a new ecological macroeconom...

Research Council of Finland