Please select the links below for media coverage of WE CARE Solar.
In the News
Voice of America
Here's a nice story and radio show that played on NPR about our work to bring solar suitcases to Haiti and Africa. http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/american-life/people/American-Obste...
Post Independent, Yampah students make the case for solar energy
Students at Yampah Mountain High School, Glenwood Springs, CO, volunteer to help build solar suitcases destined for Haiti. (5/13/2010)
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20100513/VALLEYNEWS/100519945&par...
ASPH, Berkeley Chancellor’s Awards Recognize Student, Professor for Public Service
Dr. Laura Stachel, a DrPH candidate, received the Graduate Student Award for Civic Engagement from the UC Berkeley Chancellor. (5/7//2010) http://fridayletter.asph.org/article_view.cfm?fl_index=1620&fle_index=12721
CBS 5 News, Solar Project Sheds Light On Desperate Conditions
Kate Kelly reports on Jefferson Award Winner Dr. Laura Stachel. (5/5/2010)
http://cbs5.com/jeffersonawards/jefferson.awards.stachel.2.1674318.html
Psychology Today, “Laura Stachel: Giving Light and Life” by Carlin Flora (June 2010)
UC Students Mobilize for Haiti
Donna Hemmila talks about the efforts of WE CARE Solar in Haiti and the impact of Solar Suitcases on the relief efforts. (4/26/10) http://bit.ly/c7k7FQ
ECE Students, Faculty Help Expand Impact of "Solar Suitcase"
In the Villanova Univerty College of Engineering, students learn to see the value of applying their skills to benefit the greater good. In the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this commitment can be seen in the growing collaboration between ECE faculty and students and WE CARE Solar. http://bit.ly/9lpLAk
DC Kids Build Solar Kits for Haiti
Here's a Fox News video on the participation of DC urban youth involved in our solar suitcase project under the direction of WDC Solar and ARCH Development. These suitcases are being made for Haiti.
http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/news/watch/v19900756Tj23caky
Sunlight Captured In a Suitcase is Saving Lives
Darlene Hartley captures the essence of our mission in this article written for an on-line semi-conductor publication called Bright Side of the News. (March 15, 2010)
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/3/15/sunlight-captured-in-a-su...
The California Report, "Solar Suitcases"
Rachel Dornhelm recorded the sounds of WE CARE Solar members Hal Aronson and Laura Stachel as they prepared to send suitcases to Haiti and Zimbabwe. Listen in to NPR's The California Report, first broadcast on March 12, 2010.
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201003121630/e
Sacramento News and Review, “Sunlight Suitcases” by Sena Christian, (February 25, 2010)
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1375699
One Million Lights, “Imagine a Hospital without lights” by Laura Stachel (February 2010)
http://www.onemillionlights.org/currentprograms_Nigerian_Hospitals.html
Daily Californian, “Couple's 'Solar Suitcases' Give Haitian Hospitals Solar Energy” by Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato, (January 5, 2010)
http://www.dailycal.org/article/107959/couple_s_solar_suitcases_give_hai...
Berkeley Daily Planet, “Solar Power: From Berkeley to Haiti and Beyond” by Raymond Barglow, (January 28, 2010)
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2010-01-28/article/34546?headli...
Global Engagement, “A smart way you can help Haiti,” by Annie White (January 26, 2010)
http://globalengagement.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2010/01/26/a-smart-way-yo...
World Vision Report interview by Peggy Wegemeyer, “WE CARE Solar” (January 9, 2010)
http://www.worldvisionreport.org/Find-Stories/Week-of-January-9-2010/We-...
Sacramento Bee, “Elk Grove students power up medical solar suitcases to help save lives” (November 10, 2009)
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/2316027.html
Berkeley Health Magazine, School of Public Health, Portable Solar Power for Health Facilities (Fall 2009 issue)
http://sph.berkeley.edu/pubs/magazine/mag_fall09/pdf/student_spotlight.pdf
California Magazine, “Delivering Health” by Gail Bensinger (Fall 2009 issue)
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/fall-2009-constant-c...
Winner of NY Times Half the Sky Contest (October 2, 2009)
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/half-the-sky-contest/
BBC World’s Clark Boyd features podcast on We Care Solar (August 7, 2009)
http://www.theworld.org/?s=solar+suitcase
Hesperian Foundation “Renewable Energy in Rural Health Clinics” (July 23, 2009)
http://hesperian.typepad.com/weblog/2009/07/renewable‐energy‐in‐rural‐health‐clinics‐.html
Tonic.com “A Very Bright Idea” by Kendall Hunter (July 22, 2009)
http://www.tonic.com/article/solar-suitcase-hospital-electricity/
New Hampshire Public Radio – Word of Mouth, features radio interview by Virginia Prescott, (July 6, 2009)
http://www.nhpr.org/node/25951
UN Dispatch Childbirth via “solar suitcase” (June 4, 2009)
http://www.undispatch.com/node/8341
Reuters AlertNet – How a “solar suitcase is saving women’s lives” (June 2, 2009)
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/43224/2009/05/2-182125-1.htm
N.Y. Times Opinion piece (April 18, 2009) by Nicholas Kristof, “Childbirth by Flashlight”
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/childbirth-by-flashlight/
