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Workshops
Community Organization
- Mobilizing community involvement, organizing a task-force, and developing
a five year village development plan
Micro-Finance – How to set up
and organize a micro-lending organization.
Education - Training the trainers;
educational methodologies for assuring the best participation and success
of project implementation.
Preventative Health Care - Keeping
people healthy, connecting with volunteer health professionals
Micro-Enterprise Creation
Agriculture, Small Scale - Ways to
improve crop yields in small areas; permaculture and proven, new techniques.
Agriculture, Larger Scale - New farming
methods for high altitude and specific growing conditions.
Animal Husbandry - Taking care of animals,
improving strains, basic veterinary skills.
Aquaculture – Renewable energy
powered fish-farming for nutrition, health, help in ending hunger and
micro-enterprise.
Bio-Generator Power System - Village-scale
power in remote locations without a fuel source, much less expensive than
solar or wind, uses available agricultural waste.
Briquetting - Making a more efficient,
smokeless fuel source with local materials and without wood, keeping dung
for gardens and pastures instead of going up in smoke.
Cooking Oil Production - Hand and solar-powered
presses to make everything from cooking oil to bio-fuels that can power
vehicles.
Communications - Bridging the "digital
divide"; satellite, long range phone, and internet communication
systems.
Cooling (Refrigeration) Systems –
How to make and use “pot-within-a-pot” earthenware cooling systems
with locally available materials (clay pots, sand and cloth). In dry climates,
using these super-inexpensive systems, vegetables stay fresh for weeks
instead of just a few days.
Eco-Tourism - Ways to develop an income
by serving tourists; clean water, showers, clean beds, internet service.
Education - Training the trainers;
educational methodologies for assuring the best participation and success
of project implementation.
Food Storage - Solar crop drying methods,
Butter/cheese storage, meat preservation; coffee, nuts, grain.
Internet Café - Ways to create
micro-enterprise services from a satellite Internet connection
LED / Hand-Generator Manufacturing
- The least expensive lighting systems for remote villages, a proven,
small-scale manufacturing opportunity.
Micro-Hydro Manufacturing – How
to make small hydro units from car alternators.
Mushroom Growing
- Ways to quickly improve nutrition. Medicinal benefits and mushrooms
as a significant tool for soil restoration, replenishment and remediation.
Photography, Audio-Video Production
- Training people to earn an income by taking pictures, recording video
and sound.
Rainwater Harvesting – How to collect and store rain; the
tools and techniques.
Sanitation - How to improve waste
water treatment, make composting toilets, greywater systems; from small
households to large villages.
Shelter
- Improved building methods and materials, using cob, straw, adobe, passive
solar design, etc.; the best of the new cutting-edge architectural breakthroughs.
Solar
Cooking - How to use the sun to cook, make cookers for resale
and/or micro-enterprise, from small household cookers to systems capable
of cooking over 1000 meals per day; 2 weeks.
Solar Electric Training and Demonstration
- Teaching people how to design, size, install, and maintain photovoltaic
systems.
Solar Greenhouses - Growing food during
cold months without a fuel source; passive solar greenhouse construction
and use.
Solar Pasteurizing - Using the sun
to purify water, create a mini-mfg/assembly business (cost $30 for family
of 4).
Solar Space Heating - Solar heating
methods that can be made or assembled locally.
Water Pumping – How to size and
specify the correct pump, how to install and maintain systems.
Water Pump Manufacturing – How
to build and maintain “ram” water pumps that use the force of
water falling to pump a percentage of the water uphill; making manually
operated well pumps.
Watershed Management - Protecting,
preserving, and restoring one of our most essential resources.
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