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.
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.
SolarBuddy eyes US expansion to tackle extreme energy poverty
As the charity prepares to move out of “stealth mode” SolarBuddy Founder and CEO, Simon Doble, sat down with pv magazine to discuss how his organization plans to lift as many people as it can from extreme energy poverty.
Solving Energy Poverty with Simon Doble
As an inventor and humanitarian, Simon Doble is a champion of human-centered design.
How solving energy poverty could afford renewables a twofold opportunity
Solar as a solution to poverty – it’s the route Brisbane-based charity SolarBuddy is taking, bringing Australian school children with it.