The Charity Model of The Future Needs to Start Today
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.
Human-Centred Design: Creating Solutions with Lasting Human Impact
Nobody ever designed a good thing from the comfort of their desk.
Speaker Driven Business with Jacqueline Brooker
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.
We Can’t Wait for Peace to Build Infrastructure. We Need Infrastructure to Make Peace Possible.
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.
Rethinking Fashion for Circularity & Profit: A 2025 guide
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.
How to Save a Life | Simon Doble
Simon Doble is the Founder and Global CEO of SolarBuddy and CEO of Barefoot Citizens.
Energy Poverty, Time Magazine, Six Million Solar Lights
Six years ago, after reading an article in Time Magazine calling energy poverty the worst kind of poverty, Simon Doble was driven to take action, and SolarBuddy was born.
Simon Doble – Light, Energy and Education
Simon Doble is an inventor, an entrepreneur, a CEO, and one of the kindest and most compassionate individuals I’ve ever met. The SolarBuddy story is an amazing one.
Simon Doble On Building Sustainable Initiatives to Create Change
Simon Doble of SolarBuddy.org and Boo Boo Bikes shares his insights into how to create meaningful social impact, providing valuable learnings from his own journey.
The Batman and the Bridge Builder
We talk with Simon Doble, CEO of Solar Buddy. Light access (both day and night) is a basic need many people take for granted.
Simon Doble; Founder and Global CEO of SolarBuddy
In this episode we chat with Simon Doble the founder of SolarBuddy an incredible initiative that helps to educate people about energy poverty whilst solving the problem for those affected by it.
Illuminating Futures - Interview with Simon Doble - Global Advocate against Energy Poverty
A purpose driven humanitarian, social impact entrepreneur, innovator of sustainable solutions, author and keynote speaker, today we talk to Simon Doble.
Saxton Fireside Chat with Founder & CEO of SolarBuddy, Simon Doble
In this session, Simon shares his insights on the issue of Energy Poverty, the importance of education and the power of people to tackle global issues.
Illuminating the world with Simon Doble and SolarBuddy
What do you do with an innovation that can change the world for milllions around the world? Kick down the front door of the UN of course! Meet our guest Simon Doble, Founder of SolarBuddy.