{"id":32,"date":"2008-05-18T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-54-213-215-163.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-10-25T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:15:03","slug":"massive-change-interview-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/18\/massive-change-interview-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Change interview revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I did the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brucemaustudio.com\/books\/massive-change\/\"><strong><em>Massive Change<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0back in 2004, I was asked mostly about solar home lighting systems and the use of microfinance as a way of making this technology affordable to rural households in the developing world. Aside from a brief discussion of wireless communications, I didn&#8217;t really go into the multiple ways in which solar energy can be used for a wide range of applications beyond the home at the community level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, we had just launched our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.self.org\/project-archives\/nigeria\/\">project<\/a>\u00a0in northern Nigeria, where each of three villages had been equipped with solar systems for water pumping, school, health clinic, street lighting, mosque, and a microenterprise center. This holistic approach later evolved into what has become our &#8220;solar integrated development&#8221; (SID) model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I did the\u00a0Massive Change\u00a0interview\u00a0back in 2004, I was asked mostly about solar home lighting systems and the use of microfinance as a way of making this technology affordable to rural households in the developing world. Aside from a brief discussion of wireless communications, I didn&#8217;t really go into the multiple ways in which solar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}