Beyond solar fields and parking lots: how repurposed pipeline sensor tech delivers verified carbon data and power to off-grid communities worldwide.

When people finally get what you're really about. How authentic purpose builds unshakeable trust with clients and investors.

When people finally get what you're really about. How authentic purpose builds unshakeable trust with clients and investors.

How education multiplies impact in solving energy poverty. Simon Doble explains SolarBuddy's model of community-led learning, STEM training, and women's leadership in tech-enabled solutions.

On selfless CSR, key purpose indicators, and why genuine impact starts without expecting anything back.

“That emptiness you feel inside is not a problem to fix. It’s a direction to follow.” 

For decades, charities were expected to perform miracles on shoestring budgets. Facing humanity’s biggest problems on low overheads and short-term funding. It was unsustainable then. It’s unworkable now. The solution is well overdue. At SolarBuddy, we’re leveraging business principles like innovation, ecosystem thinking, unique partnerships and forming the best teams to build a model for the future. 

Nobody ever designed a good thing from the comfort of their desk. 

EP91: The Speech That Changed Everything: Simon Doble on Fear, Purpose & Global Impact. A masterclass for emerging speakers who dream of making an impact but feel the weight of fear, nerves, or imposter syndrome.

Along the Thailand-Myanmar border, solar panels are doing more than lighting homes: they’re reducing violence risks, cutting costs, and giving students a chance to study safely. A glimpse of what happens when the global clean-energy transition reaches those who need it most.

Fast fashion creates 92m tonnes of waste yearly. Here’s how circular design can unlock $700B while cutting emissions and textile waste in half by 2030.

Most people search for their mission in the wrong place.

They think it’s something you find.
No, it finds you.

For me it was 2011. My world was falling apart.
Then I read a single article about energy poverty and everything clicked.

I had seen the issue before, but I wasn’t ready to act.
It was the crisis that made me pay attention.
Suddenly I saw the path forward.

Crises don’t just disrupt, they reveal who you really are and reshape what's to come.