Sustainability

We've seen a lot of location based services form up around social media, but none of them seemed quite right for Voltaic. That's until we found SnapGoods, located in our same office space in Brooklyn....

The move towards standardizing on Micro USB means that we all have to buy and carry fewer AC chargers. We don't need to have a stock of ten different ones in our drawers. So who is slowing down the...

In our original bags, we slid each panel under an aluminum frame. This held the panel snug, but wasn't the most efficient use of materials. In our newest line of products, we eliminated the frame and embedded...

Smallbean is down in Tanzania kicking off its' Citizen Archivist Project and it seems that our Generator solar panels are working well to charge their electronics. Smallbean trains participants to document...

There is an ongoing struggle to meet the energy demand in remote areas of the world. We haven't seen that many good articles measuring the efficacy of different approaches to providing power to remote...

The New York Times had an article in the Sunday business section about how sustainability is tied to positive economics. We agree to a point and we'll discuss some of these benefits in later...

The team at Sol Design Lab in Austin showed off their retro-modern Solar Pump Station at this year's Maker Faire. The design couples an iconic 1950's gas pump with solar to create a power station for...

We recently read a report by the GSMA that lays out the economics for solar charging phones in developing countries. In one field study in Kenya, they found that phone users spend about $0.25 cents to charge a...

A new Stanford University study claims that solar-powered drip irrigation systems can be used to irrigate farms and improve yields in Sub-Saharan Africa on an equal cost basis with liquid-fuel systems....