Solar India

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/11/bangladesh.solar.power.kalihati/index.html

This article from CNN details a program that has been active since 1996 that sells solar panels to homes and businesses in Bangladeshi villages. Although these panels are rather expensive on the average Bangladeshi salary, they are slowly introducing electricity to thousands of people who have never had it before, and they are doing so in an environmentally friendly manner.

a) This is a very effective action because Bangladesh is a part of the world that is developing at a fast rate and will be using increasing amounts of energy in the near future. Starting many of the homes and businesses in the area off on solar energy will form good habits in the village and cut down on a good bit of energy consumption in the future as well as the present.
b) This action originates from civil society. The company that started this program, Grameen Shakti, is a non-profit organization in Bangladesh that combines several causes into one solution. Not only does this organization provide green, solar energy, it also trains women in the community to install and maintain them, giving many of them jobs. 
c) With the proper funding, this program is definitely replicable and would be perfect to impliment in many of the other developing nations that are going to be using larger and larger amounts of electricity in the near future. This would even be a good program to replicate in already developed nations to decrease our dependence on oil and gas.
d) This program does give me hope because it suddenly makes the threat of the billions of people rising out of poverty and using similar amounts of energy as developed nations a little less scary. If more people outside of Bangladesh adopted similar programs I would be even more comfortable with the coming future.