NEW: Your very own solar statement on a bag

The stylish Little Sun tote bag keeps your items accessible and shares your solar enthusiasm with the world. For all your adventures – with or without your Little Sun lamps – for daily shopping trips, for the beach or just to make a solar and sunny design statement. Buy now

Little Sun wins UNDP innovation competition for access to energy in Senegal!

Exciting news for Little Sun in Senegal: The team won the innovation competition for access to energy organized by the UNDP – United Nations Development Programme! Read more about it here!

Little Sun receives Billion Acts Hero Award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival in Monaco

We are very proud to announce that Little Sun has won the prestigious Billion Acts Hero Award in the Best Social Enterprise category! Read more about it here.

Because Solar Power Means Empowerment

Little Sun is growing!

We are excited to be welcoming the Little Sun Foundation, an extension of our Little Sun social business.

Read all about it here!

Light and Livelihood for Women in Ethiopia with Little Sun and Solar Development

Solar Development plc is Little Sun’s partner in Ethiopia. Read about their founder Nabil and how they empower women in rural areas here!

Make a global impact with Little Sun

For every Little Sun sold in an area with electricity, we make one available in a part of the world without electricity at a locally affordable price. Together, we can connect the sustainable power of the sun to everyone.

Buy a Little Sun

Little Sun Launch at Tate Modern: “Blackouts” and “Sunlight Graffiti”

Little Sun launched at Tate Modern, London in 2012. Read more about it here.

We are all #ConnectedByTheSun

In 2012, artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen started the Little Sun project and since then, our global team has been working day by day, solar lamp by solar lamp, to bring the sustainable energy and the awesome power of the sun to everyone. Join our solar mission!

Meet the Little Sun Family

“LET THERE BE LIGHT”
c/o Virgil Abloh
$45
Little Sun Diamond
$30
Little Sun Original
$25
Little Sun Charge
$79
Add-on Stand
(for Little Sun Charge)
$9

Little Sun, Big Impact

“After my children go to sleep, I am now able to finish my sewing and stitching work because I have light. I am very happy with my Little Sun and all the opportunities it gives me and my children.”

Champa, seamstress, Uttar Pradesh, India.

“A dignified life is to feel pride. When Little Sun came and I began to sell them at the kiosk, it gave the whole team a desire for new challenges. We are so happy with this Little Sun project.”

Pascasie Redi, Little Sun sales agent, kiosk manager, Burundi

“Now, with Little Sun, I can revise and complete my homework. Even my friends benefit from it, because I hang it from the ceiling in our dormitory so they can see too.”

Swafdal Abdellah, boarding school student, Uganda

Where Little Sun is Making an Impact

"Art helps us identify with one another and expands the notion of 'we' from the local to the global."

Olafur Eliasson

Little Sun light is bringing solar energy in more than 10 African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana – with many more to come. So far (as of December 30 2017), we have distributed a total of 661,578 Little Suns worldwide. Of those, over 377,637 lamps went to areas without electricity. And that number is rapidly growing…

projects
Save the Children recently released important impact reports on the lasting effects of Little Sun solar lamps on the lives of refugees in Niger. We are happy to share the results with this story.

The Little Sun Impact: urgent
relief for refugees in Niger

May 2017
The Slow Marathon in Scotland meandered through all kinds of energetic landscapes to raise awareness for sustainable energy – with Little Suns charging by day and shining brightly at night.

A slow marathon through
energised landscapes

April 2017
Little Sun Diamond has won its first award! The DESIGN PRIZE, Experimentation Category, in Milan, Italy.

Design Prize Winner: Olafur
Eliasson with Little Sun and Little Sun Diamond

April 2017
Two young university students set their sights on driving across the Moroccan Desert with a box of Little Suns to give to school kids – this is their story!

Solar for the Children
of the Moroccan Desert

April 2017
This is Little Sun like you’ve never seen it before – a ‘swarm’ of lamps at the Tivoli Gardens, with proceeds going to off-grid Africa.

Little Sun Light Swarm
at Tivoli Gardens

Denmark
April 2017
March for Science will happen on Earth Day this year, April 22nd, and Little Sun will be there to support them!

Little Sun Marches for Science
on Earth Day 2017

Worldwide
April 2017
humanitarian work
Take a look at our glowing report from our partner UNHCR Rwanda on how Little Sun lamps have made an impact on the lives of elderly refugees.

105-year-old Rwandan
refugee shines on!

December 2016
If you educate a girl, you give light to the whole community. The PAGES project is an initiative that supports girls’ education in the Afar region of Ethiopia. 500 Little Sun solar lamps will be given to kids living without access to electricity, thanks to Save the Children and DFID.

Safe and Sustainable Light
for Girls in Afar, Ethiopia

Ethiopia
November 2016
Kids and their teachers in rural Rwanda are happy to be kept ‘on air’ thanks to the Solar Kids School Program.

Keeping schools ‘on
air’ in Rwanda

September 2016
Let’s celebrate World Humanitarian Day together and also talk about how you can get involved to make a difference.

Solar Lamps
for Refugees

Worldwide
August 2016

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