Obama’s grandma goes solar at village home
28 Aug 2009
Greenpeace activists have installed solar panels on President Obama’s grandmother’s house in Kenya.
As well as solar panels on “Mama Sara’s” roof, the activists put them on the Senator Barack Obama School in Kogelo Village.
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IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C
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Decline in global oil and gas field output accelerating, IEA says
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Australia: Cost of years of inaction on climate change is now revealed
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Shipping companies support a first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases, opposed by Trump officials
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Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria.
