An Interview with Mr. Polycarp Igathe, MD Vivo Energy, Chairman of PIEA Somewhere in the small rural village in Kenya, a woman prepares a meal for her family. She switches on her gas stove and is pleased by the fact that a crisp blue flame begins to bring her stew to a boil….
Read moreIt was a Friday, 11 March 2011. At 2.46 pm, Tokyo time, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake stuck off the coast of Japan, setting off a terrible tsunami that devastated the entire northeast coast. The Great East Japan Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to hit Japan and the fourth most powerful earthquake…
Read moreStaring out her office window, the barren landscape weighs heavily upon her mind. She knows much of Sub-Saharan Africa, including East Africa has had its natural forest cover stripped due to unsustainable, over reliance of wood fuel as a source of primary energy. The fact that this has contributed noticeably to climate change, mud-slides, loss of watersheds,…
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