Light Humanity
Press room
Everything you need to report on Light Humanity and its Ecosocial Innovation Lab: facts, press releases, images, media coverage and contact details.
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The lab in figures
- proyectos
- 36
- countries
- 6
- media outlets
- 88
- news stories and videos
- 172
- first project
- 2017
These update automatically with each project and news item published on this website.
About Light Humanity
Light Humanity — also known as Light for Humanity or Luz de Humanidad — is a Spanish NGO registered as Asociación Light for Humanity and based in Madrid. It was founded by Eugenio García-Calderón Huerta.
Its Ecosocial Innovation Lab drives projects in community solar energy, ultra-efficient mobility, ecological housing and sustainable communities. Each one has its own page on this website, written as a press release.
Press releases
One per project, from newest to oldest.

Competition to Develop an Open-Source Efficient Solar Vehicle2027
Competition to Develop an Open-Source Efficient Solar Vehicle

Humanity.wiki2026Early stage
Humanity.wiki maps humanity's challenges and tells you when it has no data

Organic Urban Model2026Early stage
Light Humanity publishes its organic urban design for self-sufficient communities in 3D
Human Consciousness2026Ongoing
Human Consciousness

Wiki Creator App2026Completed
Humanity.Wiki, formerly Wiki Creator, builds websites with connected databases like this one

Minimum Viable Homes2025Ongoing
The NGO Light Humanity is developing minimal homes that are self-sufficient, efficient and ecological

Arte Ser Humano Festival2025Ongoing
Light Humanity devotes its only cultural project to the Arte Ser Humano festivals

Ecological House Factory2025Ongoing
Light Humanity supports Econ House, a maker of ecological and passive wooden houses
- Oasis del Jarama, the natural housing community Light Humanity is promoting in Madrid
- Ikigaia, the intergenerational ecovillage taking shape on 240 hectares in Periana (Málaga)
- Light Humanity designs the Aeromóvil in 3D, a light electric vehicle with solar panels
- Light Humanity is developing an electric solar boat for 20 passengers on the River Amazon
- Remote self-consumption in Mazarrón: solar panels for people who cannot install them at home
- Villalbilla energy community: a state school now shares solar energy with its neighbours
- Comunidad Solar's energy retailer brings remote self-consumption to people without a roof of their own
- The Villabosque ecovillage began on a former paintball field in Villaviciosa de Odón
- A collective loan brought solar panels and aerothermal heating to the Lázaro home in Madrid
- 37 lenders financed solar energy for 1,600 people in La Guajira, Colombia
- Solar energy in Honduras: collective loans with the goal of reaching 30,000 people
- A hydroelectric plant in Ligüérzana shares the energy of the River Pisuerga among 2,010 members
- Light Humanity invests in Aptera, the ultra-efficient three-wheeled solar car
- Light for Kenya: €20,000 to bring solar energy to rural families without electricity
- 24-hour solar energy for La Casa Nueva, a shelter in Sagunto
- Remote self-consumption: solar energy from Cáceres for the Zaqueo shelter in Toledo
- Solar Crowd turns small loans into solar energy for families in energy poverty
- Solar irrigation in Mozambique: a system for some 200 farming families in Magunde
- Cañada Solar brought solar energy to some 100 families left without power in Cañada Real
- Solar installer courses: Light Humanity trained residents of Cañada Real
- Solar-powered delivery: electric cargo vehicles that carry their own panel
- Solar lamps instead of kerosene for more than 3,000 families in the Brazilian Amazon
- A twelve-sided solar loudspeaker for the climate marches in Madrid
- The Nuevo Baztán energy community is now sharing solar energy among its first residents
- Solar Pedalling: 3,890 km around Spain by solar bicycle against the sun tax
- A solar bicycle and two energy labs brought renewables into schools
- An electric bicycle with a three-panel solar trailer travelled 3,890 km around Spain
- Each lamp sold in the solidarity solar shop funded another in the Amazon
Press kit
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Project photos
A selection of project photos, credited to Light Humanity.

Photo: Light HumanityAeromóvil Download: Eugenio García-Calderón and a companion sitting in a blue Dutch electric velomobile with the canopy openPNG · 1068 × 1424 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveArte Ser Humano Festival Download: Arte Ser Humano Festival project: a man with a painted face dances while a woman singsJPG · 2000 × 1501 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveOasis del Jarama Community Download: Group of people with hammocks, folding chairs and dogs on the sandy bank of a riverJPG · 2000 × 1501 px 
Photo: Light HumanitySolidarity Solar Shop Download: A hiker walks through a fern forest with the Solar Folder panel hanging from her backpackJPG · 1600 × 1068 px 
Photo: Light HumanitySolar Installer Courses Download: Three men beside solar panel mounts on a rooftop in Cañada RealJPG · 1600 × 1200 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveVillabosque Community and Ecovillage Download: Aerial view of the Villabosque ecovillage: a meadow crossed by a dirt trackJPG · 2000 × 1125 px 
Photo: Light HumanityLight of the Amazon Download: Kerosene lamp made from a tin can, lit beside an open bookJPG · 1600 × 1200 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveThe Green Voice Download: The Green Voice: twelve-sided solar loudspeaker with two panels, on a cart with a signJPG · 1600 × 1253 px 
Photo: Light HumanitySchool Outreach Download: Battery module open on a wooden table, beside its black lidJPG · 1600 × 1200 px 
Photo: Light HumanityCañada Solar Download: Solar panels on the roof of a home in Cañada Real, beside a muralJPG · 2000 × 1500 px 
Photo: Light HumanityCasa Nueva Sagunto Download: La Casa Nueva shelter in Sagunto, among farmland and electricity pylonsJPG · 1600 × 896 px 
Photo: Light HumanityAeromóvil Download: Eugenio García-Calderón lifts the canopy of a blue Dutch electric velomobile on the coastPNG · 1068 × 1424 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveArte Ser Humano Festival Download: Group of people smiling outdoors at dusk, with the moon in the skyJPG · 1898 × 1424 px 
Photo: Light Humanity archiveOasis del Jarama Community Download: Oasis del Jarama working meeting with hand-drawn plans on the tableJPG · 2000 × 1501 px 
Photo: Light HumanitySolidarity Solar Shop Download: The Solar Cube solidarity solar lamp, lit on a rock on a riverbankJPG · 1600 × 1600 px 
Photo: Light HumanitySolar Installer Courses Download: A group of men listen to an explanation in front of the electrical panel of a solar systemJPG · 1600 × 898 px
Each photo has its credit: please cite it if you publish it.
In the media
What has been published about the lab's projects, year by year. Each card links to the original article or video.