Initiatives - 4x4electric

Zipline – delivering medicine with drones

This company once started in the USA and is now active in several countries in Africa, delivering medicine to remote areas in Africa with drones.

ADETOP – Association Découverte Togo Profond

ADETOP was once founded to restore 1450 hectares of forests that were cleared as revenge (read more about this below), now it is so much more.

Restoring mangroves by Wetlands International and Greenchoice - 4x4electric

Restoring the mangrove

Did you know mangroves store even more CO2 compared to a regular forest? In this video, where we visit a sustainable initiative in Guinea Bissau, we explain to you why.

Off-grid Africa

Off-grid Africa is providing 300 villages in Senegal with solar electricity completely off-grid. In the future, they plan to help even more villages in Senegal and other countries in Africa.

Noor Solar Power Station

This is the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant. With an additional 72 MW photovoltaic system the entire project was planned to produce 582 MW.

Pikala Bikes

Eco-tourism. Cantal Bakker recycles old bikes to organize eco-friendly tours through Marrakesh. She also uses these bikes to deliver packages and learn locals how to ride a bike.

Redeeming plastics

Making new products out of plastic waste. Kate Beer has a start-up, Redeeming Plastics, in Morocco to start recycling plastic waste and educate children to do the same.

Did you know that meat in the supermarket is almost only from female cattle? Nel Schellekens has her own kitchen at Keunenhuis in Winterswijk. Here she invites people to her table where she cooks with 100% taste and 0% waste.

B&B made out of reused materials

A gypsy wagon made of an old site hut. Karin Zwaan has a B&B named ‘boerderij de Klaproos’ in Westerwolde, the Netherlands. Besides her extraordinary hospitality, she offers an old farm to stay in nature, restored with only reused materials.