Little Sun 2019 | A Year in Pictures
One million solar lamps worldwide!
Little Sun reaches a milestone by successfully delivering one million solar lamps worldwide
we are celebrating a major milestone in our pursuit of clean energy access for all. The one million solar lamps have created a substantial social and health impact, accounting for 613,523,012 hours of light. As a result, 2,629,384 people now use clean solar energy instead of harmful fossil fuel-based lighting sources. Read more
New on Netflix: Season two of Abstract: The Art of Design
The new season features some of Olafur’s most amazing works, gives an inside look into the studio and of course explains the vision for Little Sun. Check it out!
Olafur starts Climate Week NYC off with a Little Sunrise
“The eyes of all future generations are upon you” – impressions of the climate strike
From remote islands in the Pacific to the streets of New York, some 5,000 climate strikes happened around the globe on the 20th of September. Read more on our blog!
Little Sun in Conversation: Olafur and Nabil
Watch Olafur and Nabil, our distribution partner in Ethiopia, talk about arts, energy access and global solutions in four unique videos which we shot last month during Nabil’s first visit to Berlin.
Give light to communities in urgent need of clean energy
How Does Solar Power Save Lives?
Bringing together digital health care and solar energy in Zanzibar. Read more about it here.
20 million additional study hours
Little Sun Foundation increases access to education with solar energy. In February 2019, we reached a milestone and equipped all of the school children without electriciy in Kamonyi, Rwanda with our solar lamps. Learn more 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!
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."
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 2018), we have distributed a total of 838,308 Little Suns worldwide. Of those, over 510,844 lamps went to areas without electricity. And that number is rapidly growing…
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