Little Sun: the power of the sun for everyone

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世界著名艺术家OLAFUR ELIASSON和他的工程师合作伙伴FREDERIK OTTESEN共同推出了小太阳项目。这个具有意义的项目让光明走进世界各个角落的黑暗之处，用随处可得的可持续性能源为落后地区的11亿人口带去光亮与电力。小太阳有两款产品，一款产品是去年9月推出的太阳能电池驱动灯，另一款则是新近推出，众望所归的太阳能电池驱动的充电器。这两款产品用安全和可持续的方法解决了人们的关键需求，同时因为阳光是免费的，小太阳产品在用户购买的几个月后便能收回成本。

Following its successful Kickstarter campaign last September, Little Sun, the global solar project founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen, launches its long-awaited solar phone charger, Little Sun Charge, today.

Like Little Sun’s iconic first product, the Little Sun Original solar lamp, all Little Sun Charges sold in areas with electricity will make solar energy available in areas without electricity at locally affordable prices – strengthening communities from the inside.

After much research and development, Little Sun Charge is now being shipped to the 2,000 Kickstarter backers around the world who contributed €265,000 to bring it to life, as well as to buyers who ordered in advance. As of today, Little Sun Charge will be available for everyone to order online via the freshly designed website www.littlesun.com. The design brings a whole new user experience, featuring a streamlined webshop, an easy-to-follow illustrated timeline, an animated solar sketch and clearly defined future aims such as ‘energy access for all’, in keeping with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

小太阳从一面试就受到了巨大的瞩目，曾在 Kickstarter上筹款26.5万欧元，目前也依靠这笔费用推广到世界各地。大家可以到www.littlesun.com网站上进行订购。新的充电器拥有一个4400mAh的强大电池和内置灯，不光能在旅途中为手机，相机，电子阅读器以及mp3播放器等设备充电，也能为非洲撒哈拉沙漠以南无电区的人们带去光明。小太阳上的挂绳和扣钩能够方便人们装备在自己的背包或者身体上，让人们在进行大多数户外活动的同时也把电给充了。

2016年Olafur Eliasson将亲临凡尔赛宫进行小太阳现场销售，如果想更多关注小太阳，请参看下方英文。

Featuring an intuitive charge and battery indicator, a powerful battery (4400mAh) and a handy inbuilt lamp, Little Sun Charge is as useful to those wanting a smart, portable way to charge their phone, camera, e-reader, MP3 player and other small devices on the go, as it is for those living without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Little Sun Charge is designed to withstand all your adventures – music festivals, biking, hiking or just kicking back at the local park. It comes with a lanyard and carabiner hook, which enables Little Sun Charge to be attached to a backpack or slung around the body to charge it in the sun while out and about, or it can be used as a standing lamp with the optional custom-made stand.

Olafur Eliasson is the 2016 artist for the Palace of Versailles with Little Suns for sale onsite, making every person a ‘(Little) Sun King’ – holding the power of the sun in their hands.

Little Sun will spread this good energy around Europe this summer with a charging station at We Love Green festival in Paris, a sunlight graffiti booth at the Sonar festival, Barcelona, and with eco fun at Hoffest Brodowin, close to Berlin.

Stay in the loop online as the Little Sun Charge ‘Charge your phone. Charge your life’ campaign unfolds on Little Sun’s social media: twitter.com/LittleSun, www.facebook.com/ilovelittlesun, www.instagram.com/littlesunenergy/. Follow: #ChargeYourLife and #ConnectedByTheSun.

Solar power at its best

Spreading light and livelihoods

Little Sun puts the power of the sun in the palm of your hand – creating safe, convenient, sustainable light and energy you can take with you wherever you go. But Little Sun is much more than a lamp or a phone charger – it’s a global project and social business that is connecting the world through sharing the sustainable energy of the sun.

Using Little Sun in these o -grid areas means:

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Artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen developed the Little Sun solar-powered products to get clean, reliable, a ordable light to the 1.1 billion people living without electricity in areas of the world known as ‘o -grid’ areas.
Access to clean energy and a reliable form of communication are key to human existence. Little Sun addresses both of these needs with a safe, clean alternative. And because sunlight is free, Little Sun products pay for themselves after just a few months.

Share the energy

目前43万盏小太阳在非洲十多个国家以及欧洲，美国，加拿大，澳大利亚还有日本出售。点亮了世界各地。在发达地区，小太阳以较高的价格被出售，多余的差价用来补贴落后地区，这样落后地区的人们可以以较低的价格购买小太阳了。当你购买一个小太阳，你就确保另一个更需要它的人能够买到小太阳。大约一半的小太阳被销往落后地区。

Currently Little Sun is available in over 10 African countries, including in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana, as well as in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia,and Japan. Little Sun uses on-grid investment to kick-start
o -grid small businesses that sell Little Suns, providing funding for sales agents to receive business starter kits and micro-entrepreneurial training.

Little Suns are sold at a higher price in areas of the world with electricity so that the lamps can be sold in o -grid areas at much lower, locally a ordable prices. So when you buy a Little Sun, you are making sure that much-needed solar energy gets to people who need it the most.

About Little Sun

Little Sun is a social business and global project founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen to bring clean, reliable, affordable energy to the 1.1 billion people in the world living in off-grid areas without electricity. The project’s first product, the Little Sun solar LED lamp, is sold all over the world. The second product, Little Sun Charge, a solar phone charger, was made possible thanks to a Kickstarter campaign and is now available worldwide. Purchasing Little Suns in areas of the world with electricity makes the products available in off-grid areas at reduced, locally affordable prices, where they provide a clean alternative to toxic and expensive fuel-based lighting and a steadfast and clean alternative to relying on the electrical grid.

Little Sun addresses the need for energy in a sustainable way that benefits off-grid communities by working with local entrepreneurs, creating local jobs, and generating local profits. The Little Sun project was officially launched in July 2012 at London’s Tate Modern. Since then, more than 430,000 Little Sun lamps have been distributed worldwide, with almost half going to off-grid areas. In April 2014, Little Sun received a ground-breaking $5 million impact investment loan from Bloomberg Philanthropies, making it possible to scale Little Sun’s operations across the African continent.

中国有售  China retail locations 

北京Bejing
红砖美术馆Red Brick Art Museum
广州Guangzhou
维他命艺术空间Vitamin Creative Space
上海Shanghai
上海当代博物馆Power Station of Art

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