Sentences with phrase «little sun project»

These small sunflower shaped lights are from the Little Sun project by Olafur Eliasson, the project supports communities without electricity, an aspect of life many people in the modern world take for granted.

Mr. Eiliasson's Little Sun project, which was further developed with research from several of MIT's schools and labs, is a small portable solar powered lamp that can act as a renewable light source for people living in remote areas.

In 2012, Eliasson launched his Little Sun project at Tate Modern as part of the London 2012 Festival.

The Little Sun project was launched in 2012 at the Tate Modern in London, where the lamp continues to be available for purchase.

The Little Sun project was officially launched in July 2012 at London's Tate Modern and currently has distribution in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, as well as in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and the U.S..

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Little Sun engages in projects with partners such as art institutions, international agencies, NGOs, and the private sector to raise global awareness of energy access and solar power.

I am sleeping better, I don't feel fatigued from my daily activities / job anymore, I don't want to sit and watch TV in the evenings or Sat / Sun mornings like I used to, I'm spending more time walking my dogs, cleaning house, or getting little projects done that I have been putting on the back burner, and my body seems to handle hot summer days better too.

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«But even as many parents have embraced the new schools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University has found.

The almost perfectly circular Pilanesberg national park, due to its lying literally in the void of a 1200 million year old volcano crater, lies 150 kilometres north west of Gauteng, virtually on the border of Sun City - one of the biggest draw cards to the area - and, by comparison, receives little of the acclaim it deserves... The 55 000 hectare Pilanesberg park opened in 1979 in one of the largest game resettlement projects in the history of South Africa, and possibly the most expensive as commercial farmers gave over land to be restocked with wildlife.

Join us on a guided tour for families followed by the workshop «To live in darkness» developed by Studio Olafur Eliasson for the humanitarian project Little Sun.

Little Sun is a social business and global project founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen to get clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.2 billion people in the world living in off - grid areas without electricity.

Consequently, in 2012, Eliasson launched Little Sun in collaboration with solar engineer Frederik Ottesen, a social project with the mission of bringing sustainable and clean energy to regions without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa.

The exhibition involves a range of artists who have created pieces that will be sold online in a benefit auction, with proceeds going to Little Sun's Solar Kids School Program, a humanitarian project that supplies sustainable, solar - powered light to schools in Rwanda.

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.