Tag: Idris Elba

Octopus Energy partners with Idris Elba and Siaka Stevens’ Sherbro Alliance Partners to develop Sierra Leone’s first wind farm on Sherbro Island

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Energy’s generation arm has entered into a milestone partnership with Idris Elba and Siaka Stevens’ development company, Sherbro Alliance Partners (SAP), to build Sierra Leone’s first wind farm as part of the Sherbro Island City project. Announced at COP28, the collaboration and project will help accelerate the country’s monumental renewables opportunity and collect vital data to foster greater investment into green energy on Sherbro Island, across Sierra Leone and beyond. The deal will see Octopus build a first-of-its-kind renewables project for the country in 2024, with the potential to…

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Digital City Brings Attention to the Devastating Impact of Illiteracy in the United States

Stuart Mitchell

A powerful visualization of the extent of illiteracy in the United States has been unveiled today in the form of ‘IlliteraCity’. Supported by Actor and Activist, Idris Elba, in conjunction with Project Literacy a global campaign founded by digital education company Pearson, the city has been launched to bring to light the many real world problems that people who cannot read and write face. ‘IlliteraCity’ was constructed from real-world demographics and statistics around literacy, and was created to provide a startling representation of the ramifications illiteracy can have on a city…

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