Green resource and all around interesting site Inhabitat has a really nice article up today about William Kamkwamba. Name doesn’t ring a bell? I’m not surprised. Positive press usually gets filtered out in favor of the horrific. I heard about him a little bit ago thanks to my close watch on the TED conference. William, without any training, taught himself all he could out of books borrowed from a school library. One of the things he learned was how to make a windmill, which he did, out of found materials. He used the windmill to support his family’s moderate power needs and continues to do so, improving the windmill whenever possible. His little project garnered him enough acclaim that he was invited to be one of 100 speakers at the international TED conference. Not bad for a poor kid from Malawi. Plus I think he’s wearing skate shoes in that photo, so we could definitely be bros.
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