This post originally appeared on the Wokai blog on January 27, 2009.

What does it mean to be green?  How do energy sources relate to poverty alleviation in developing countries?  Who should be making decisions about rural energy use?

I’ve been thinking more about these questions lately.  We recently posted some new borrowers on Wokai, whose businesses focus on selling cow dung to burn as fuel.  Here’s one such profile:

Several things stand out to me in Aodunsiqige’s profile: her daughter’s poetic name and musical ambitions, her family’s transition from selling millet to lending equipment to selling cow dung, her awareness of options and prices for winter heating materials…

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