[ Human stories ]

Technology is only useful if it changes a life.

Field reports from the households, schools and neighbourhoods living inside MEER installations. Documentary photography and first-person accounts, with the measurements to match.

The summer the ceiling stopped burning.
Gujarat, India

The summer the ceiling stopped burning.

For families in a rural Gujarat village, MEER-installed panels turned upper-floor rooms from uninhabitable to sleepable during the pre-monsoon heat.

Cooler classrooms, longer school days.
Freetown, Sierra Leone

Cooler classrooms, longer school days.

A pilot in a coastal school district measured a 4°C reduction in classroom temperature — extending the effective learning window during heat season.