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Little Sun officially launched FEBRUARY our distribution in Nigeria … Ghana Zambia Burkina Faso … which would become only the first of Little Sun light this year – later joined four new African countries to distribute by Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Zambia! Artist and Little Sun Founder Olafur Eliasson Frederik Ottesen, and the Little Sun Team MARCH brought Little Sun to the MIT for his 2014 collaborated with students on the lamp McDermott Award residency. Throughout and project, generating innovative ways the academic year, Eliasson, Co-Founder to spread sustainable energy. At the famous Coachella music festival solar energy access for everyone – APRIL in sunny California, Little Sun surprised the #AbsolutLittleSun Bar and festivalgoers with a unique interactive Sunlight Graffiti! experience to raise awareness about MAY Little Sun also brought Sunlight Graffiti and social engagement together: to Viva con Agua’s social art and music a tangible experience of sustainable festival Millerntor Gallery in Hamburg, energy and solar light to all participants. which brought street art, music, In response to feedback from our A fluorescent ‘on/off’ button that JUNE users, Little Sun debuted a popular makes your lamp easy to find and new feature: activate in the dark! Little Sun travels Summer is the perfect time to embark on travels and adventures, and Little Sun visited many places this year… Times Square, NYC The Great Wall of China The 25th Fall of the Wall anniversary, Berlin The Eiffel Tower, Paris A popular Little Sun Pop-Up Shop Iceland – and sold out of lamps due to AUGUST brought solar light to Reykjavík, high demand! Little Sun on the road At Little Sun, we constantly travel to new places, meeting with people to set up Little Sun distribution. We chronicled our travels in our ‘Little Sun On the Road’ blog series of first-hand accounts from members of the Little Sun Team. Ghana Zimbabwe Burkina Faso Senegal The first Little Sun lamps arrived in launch of Little Sun Colombia SEPTEMBER South America in preparation for the at Art Bogota in October! In Copenhagen Little Sun visited Ice focusing our attention on the urgent OCTOBER Watch by Olafur Eliasson, 100 tonnes issue of climate change facing us all. of inland ice from Greenland which Let’s turn climate change into climate melted slowly in City Hall Square, action. #climate2014 #IceWatch In partnership with the Velux group, imagine future solutions to provide people NOVEMBER Little Sun launched Natural Light, an worldwide with sustainable energy by international design competition. The designing a special edition solar lamp, competition challenges students to which will be produced in 29,000 units. Little Sun collaborated with Fondation by Olafur Eliasson. Proceeds from DECEMBER Louis Vuitton to produce a special sales support delivery of Little Suns limited edition of 1000 Little Sun to 11 African countries. solar lamps, numbered and signed Great people we met this year The best part of the Little Sun project is delivering clean solar light and meeting wonderful people along the way, and this year was no exception.… Philanthropist and Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown From politicians and scientists ... Mars Desert Research Station Crew Bill Nye the Science Guy Commander Nick Orenstein To shopkeepers and retailers ... Children and their families ... Working with our Kenyan distributors users get their Little Suns first and JANUARY solaTaa, MyC4 and KEEF brought Little pay in flexible installments – with the Suns to rural Kenyan villages with their money they are saving by no longer micro-financing payment plans, where purchasing unsafe and toxic kerosene. Artists and musicians… Ivy Quainoo Marteria Ai Wei Wei On tour with Dillon And many more! Working with our Kenyan distributors users get their Little Suns first and JANUARY solaTaa, MyC4 and KEEF brought Little pay in flexible installments – with the Suns to rural Kenyan villages with their money they are saving by no longer micro-financing payment plans, where purchasing unsafe and toxic kerosene. Little Sun, Thank you for being a part Big Impact of the global Little Sun community! Here’s what we accomplished to date: 400+ African entrepreneurs 124,000+ joined Little Sun lamps sold in off-grid areas 500,000+ lives changed 8,300+ tonnes CO2 emissions $3,200,000 reduced from the atmosphere Working with our Kenyan distributors users get their Little Suns first and saved on energy expenses JANUARY solaTaa, MyC4 and KEEF brought Little pay in flexible installments – with the in off-grid households Suns to rural Kenyan villages with their money they are saving by no longer micro-financing payment plans, whereAnd therepurchasing is unsafe much and moretoxic kerosene. to come... Thank you for helping us to spread sustainable solar light around the world. Every lamp sold in an area with electricity delivers one lamp to an off-grid area at a locally affordable price. 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