Momentum For Change Podcast

By increasing both the production of low-carbon housing and the supply of mortgages for such housing, EcoCasa is helping Mexico reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. By providing financing to build more sustainable houses, they're helping to construct over 27,000 low-carbon or 'passive' houses. This week, we talk to Klaus Veigel, Senior Project Manager at KfW about EcoCasa's work.

In the slums of Bangalore, children cannot do their homework after the sun sets. Families use polluting kerosene lamps, and the fuel eats up a significant percentage of their humble incomes. Pollinate Energy trains members of the local community to distribute and install solar lighting systems as micro-entrepreneurs. We talk to Monique Alfris and Ben Merven, co-founders at Pollinate Energy, about their initiative.

We talk to Swisscontact's Jon Bickel about reducing the carbon footprint of traditional brick-making in Peru. By installing new, energy-efficient kilns, brick-producers have cut down their fuel consumption and carbon emissions by almost 50 percent, while increasing their incomes.

This week we talk with Elwyn Grainger-Jones about the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP). ASAP finances smallholder farmers so they can access the tools and technologies that help build their resilience to climate change.

This week our host Sarah Marchildon talks with Kwaku Kyei of Recnowa in Kumasi, Ghana. Recnowa employs local artisans and street youth in poor urban communities to take recyclable waste out of landfills and off the streets.