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Opportunity to Donate
Great Commission Air
Solar panel/battery combos needed to set-up radios in remote villages
if Guatemala for an air ambulance services. www.GreatCommissionAir.org
Seven Generaciones
Seven Generaciones is a starting eco-neighborhood project in Arachania,
Rocha, Uruguay.
We have 3 families and growing. We're building cob houses, using composting
toilets, recycling greywater, growing food, etc. We need lanterns for
when we run out of batteries, and a solar panel to recharge what we have.
We don't have a refrigerator - wind power is not enough for a regular
fridge. If we have a gas one, it would really help. Especially in the
summer! We are also looking for a system to aerate our greywater for recycling.
We share books about sustainable living and educate children or a sustainable
future, so if you have any resources to send, we would really appreciate
it! www.7generaciones.org
El Paso Solar Energy Association
The El Paso Solar Energy Association (EPSEA) would like to have some material
written in Spanish to add to our web page, or references of books written
in that language. They would also welcome other Spanish educational material,
especially books on solar ovens and LED lighting. www.epsea.org
Ferrocement Educational Network
The Ferrocement Educational Network is a not-for-profit organization.
We have the only online ferrocement discussion group in existance and
we currently have over 170 members from around the world. www.ferrocement.net
Food for the Hungry International
Food for the Hungry Int'l in Bolivia, is devoted to helping the poor to
provide potable water, health and agricultural training and intervention,
and many infrastructure projects. Currently we are finishing a 15 km irrigation
canal in a region of the altiplano to extend the growing season for 5
farming communities.
We need to monitor the climatic factors in the area to understand the
success or failure of the crops with the use of the irrigation canal.
Currently we use a desktop computer at the remote station to download
the data from the weather monitoring equipment. The computer is also shared
by 6 agricultural and health field trainers who work 20 days a month in
the area with the people. There are panels at the site but we do not use
an inverter since lighting is dc and so is the radio for communication.
our group has a generator that is also shared and is used to generate
AC power for the computer but at times it is needed in other communities
to show videos for trainings. If we had an inverter that stayed at the
station, the computer would be accessible more often and there would be
less need for constant coordination for the shared generations. www.fh.org
Gaia
Gaia is a non profit association founded in December 1991. Its founding
mission is the promotion of sustainable societies by creating human settlements
based on the practice of Permaculture systems and methods. Since 1996,
the first Ecovillage project is being developed on a 20 hectares' site
in a rural area near Buenos Aires City. We have founded the Permaculture
Institute of Argentina and are currently involved in a world-wide Living
and Learning Center project. We have organized a number of courses, which
have been attained by people from different sustainable projects from
all around Latin-America. We are also very focussed on networking. For
that reason, we have participated in the creation of the G.E.N (Global
Ecovillage Network) in 1995 and we have been very active members since
then. We are ENA council members, and function as a South American contact
office.
Hunger Plus
Hunger Plus, Inc. is a not-for-profit relief agency that provides food
and related supplies for emergency use and for longer term projects to
improve food security. Our mission statement is: 'To feed the hungry and
help them become self-sufficient.' We partner with individuals, NGOs,
government agencies, church and civic groups. Projects in self sufficiency
focus on food preservation, agriculture, water, health, education, housing
and technology. www.hungerplus.org
Jovenes con Fronteras
Jovenes con Fronteras is an organization that provides vocational training
to young people in Quito, Equador. We have no phone line in our office,
and are seeking a long range phone to use with a friend's line.
Ocean Arks International
Ocean Arks International is researching new applications of the Restorer
technology which is a floating platform that supports plants to help treat
polluted bodies of water or wastewater lagoons. We are interested in exploring
the possibility of growing alternative paper pulp plants on the Restorers
and harvesting them for use in production. This would essentially turn
a wastewater treatment system into a paper producing nursery. We have
several funded projects that could incorporate this idea including treatment
of waste in a sewage canal in China and a wastewater treatment lagoon
for a poultry processing plant in Maryland. www.oceanarks.org
The Renewable Energy Resource Center
The Renewable Energy Resource Center, a non profit organization that works
to educate the public about renewable energy and energy efficiency technology,
is trying to put together some solar energy equipment for demonstration
purposes. www.rerc-vt.org
ShareCircle
The purpose of SHARECircle (or simply SHARE) is to help save lives, create
economic opportunities, restore hope and forge a better tomorrow for the
orphans of single mothers, and widows of war, and civil strife. SHARE
is looking for water purification and solar lighting equipment for 10
offices in different locations around Angola. www.sharecircle.org
State College Friends School
The State College Friends School has recently established a Green Energy
Council made up of parents, staff, and interested community members setting
a goal of bringing more sustainable energy to the school. They are looking
for a wind speed indicator to assess wind power as an alternative for
their school. www.statecollegefriendsschool.org
Tara Mandala
Tara Mandala is a Buddhist retreat center, as well as a 501(c)-3 tax deductible
religious organization. The organization conducts instructional retreats
on their property each summer. They have one 12V and one 24V battery/PV
system at present, with a third one likely this year. They have a need
for DC lighting for an outdoor kitchen area, latrines, and meeting areas.
A total of 20 lights would not be too many. Also, they've been struggling
with a Dankoff DC pump system that keeps breaking down. I have advised
them to replace this pump with an AC submersible. They'll need an inverter
to make the AC pump work, but the budget is strained.
Gift of the Givers Foundataion
The Gift of the Givers Foundation is a South African based foundation
which works with local artesans to produce goods for sale. They are looking
for equipment that will take plastic bottles and convert them to beads
for African products (for cultural artesania). www.giftofthegivers.co.za
GOAL Ireland
GOAL's mission is to respond quickly and efficiently with emergency supplies.
We believe that the money we collect must be spent directly on the people
who need it most.
To do that, we keep our administration costs to a bare minimum. We also
believe it is essential to train local people so that they can continue
to provide healthcare and other services long after GOAL has left the
country. Each of our projects is staffed largely by local people. Currently,
over 2000 local staff work on GOAL programmes worldwide. GOAL is looking
for a solar-powered reading lamp for a worker in the Southern Sudan. www.goal.ie
Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project
Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project (BLSCP) is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3)
organization formed in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado. BLSCP is helping Tibetans
in Tibet through programs in Solar Electricity, Health Care, and Education.
In the rural areas of Lhasa Prefecture, 70% of the Tibetan families have
no electricity. In 1998, BLSCP began a solar PV demonstration program
for these herders and farmers. As many as 330,000 Tibetans are suffering
from a deadly parasite. If not treated, this widespread disease can cause
failure of the liver and lungs, which leads to a painful death. BLSCP
conducts visits to rural Tibet to demonstrate solar PV technology for
enterprises, schools, medical clinics, monasteries, and homes and to develop
methods for prevention of the fatal parasite disease. Our delegations
include solar energy specialists, medical personnel, and others, some
of whom are visiting a developing area for the first time. www.bouder-tibet.org
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