The heat and the humidity are stifling, at the end of the rainy season in Saint-Louis of Senegal. Ancestral traditions and vestiges of the colonial past are combined in the estuary of the Senegal River, which marks the border with Mauritania. In the middle of the city, the Lycée Amadou Sow Ndiaye welcomes more than…
Created in March 2018, the “Switzerland Chapter” of the famous Explorers Club met for the first time in Switzerland, on Turthday, the 14 of June 2018. The Explorers Club is a historical institution, founded in New York in 1905. It counted among its members many great figures of exploration. Members of the Swiss Section met…
It’s official! The Foundation become again PlanetSolar Foundation, named in memory of the fabulous adventure around the world between 2010 and 2012 by the solar boat PlanetSolar. The Foundation’s team is proud to present you its new website – www.planetsolar.swiss – which will be a platform to follow its projects. This change of name and…
Derrière, l’océan Atlantique, et devant, l’immense océan Pacifique. Le navire de Race for Water, anciennement PlanetSolar (bateau du premier tour à l’énergie solaire) vient de traverser le mythique Canal de Panama, carrefour maritime qu’il avait déjà emprunté en 2011 lors de son premier tour du monde. Désormais transformé en un bateau multi énergies, après avoir…
Le 7 novembre dernier, la Fondation SolarPlanet a tenu son Conseil de fondation au cours duquel les anciens capitaines de PlanetSolar Patrick Marchesseau et Erwann Le Rouzic, ainsi que Roland Loos et Thierry Plojoux, du team SolarStratos, ont été accueillis comme nouveaux membres. Le Conseil de fondation a eu en outre le plaisir de désigner…
