'PICO POWER'
The Portable Light project brings together ancient textile weaving techniques and contemporary solid state electronics to design a new material form for light—a cost-effective, de-centralized textile lighting infrastructure made up of many small, portable and interactive renewable energy sources which may be used separately or aggregated together to create larger arrays of light and power. Lightweight, easily rolled or compressed, readily shipped, transported and carried, Portable Light can be deployed at a global scale for education, household health and economic production and community practices.

With no fragile parts, glass light bulbs or heavy, large, and breakable solar panel equipment to ship and transport, Portable Light energy harvesting textiles offer significant cost advantages over rigid glass-based solar power systems and conventional centralized AC electrical power. Its textile medium is adaptable to the needs and practices of many different cultures, efficient in its use of energy, light output, ease of transportation and implementation and versatile in its multiple uses as a textile product which offers the production efficiencies of large run textile manufacturing.

POTRABLE LIGHT IN THE SIERRA MADRE
Portable Light initiatives are currently underway in a number of countries. Portable Light in the Sierra Madre will enable Huichol women to harvest electrical power from the sun, own and carry their own light with them, and use it to improve literacy, create better options for education, increase household income and improve family health and nutrition. This pilot project will create immediate, direct and tangible benefits for Huichol women and their families—bringing light to serve a collective community group of more than 300 people in the Huichol Sierra.