Here\u2019s a bit of holiday cheer\u2013a video about a community solar network that is bringing electricity and WiFi to an off-grid rural village in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The question raised by this bottom-up approach is whether enough people can be helped to make a difference. The video says the sponsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/energypedia.info\/wiki\/ME_SOLshare_Ltd\">ME\u00a0SOLshare, Ltd<\/a>., plans to bring installations like this one to 1 million people by 2021. (The current population of Bangladesh is 170 million.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>You may also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/the-way-of-tau\/\">The Way of Ta\u2019u<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/the-cost-of-climate-inaction\/\">The Cost of Climate Inaction<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a bit of holiday cheer\u2013a video about a community solar network that is bringing electricity and WiFi to an off-grid rural village in Bangladesh. The question raised by this bottom-up approach is whether enough people can be helped to make a difference. The video says the sponsor, ME\u00a0SOLshare, Ltd., plans to bring installations like … <a href=\"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/community-solar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community Solar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-solar-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6FkJj-8Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/l-stires.com\/thinking-slowly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}