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Solar Sister and NextAid Showcase 5 Promising Technologies for Africa

Posted September 23, 2011 9:54 AM

From TreeHugger:

Solar Sister showcased just some of the efforts taking place around the world. Here, the Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania install solar panels in their villages.

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09/26/2011 12:18 AM

An article from TreeHugger?

You can almost guarantee it will be loony.
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09/27/2011 9:41 AM

I didn't find it loony, actually, pretty cool.

The pump designs by Kickstart look good and are obviously already making an impact on people's ability to grow the food they need. It's a good thing.

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09/29/2011 1:57 PM

Had you seen what the 'treehuggers' were attempting to save in Humboldt County, California perhaps your 'opinion' of the organization might be different. The damage to the ecological base remains severe: so much so that an entire salmon fishery was destroyed due to silting of the spawning beds.....just one example from many for your perusal.

I'm not a tree hugger but ..... this was a crime committed in the interests of repaying one mans' bank debt and to hell with the consequences.

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09/27/2011 11:40 AM

The hip pump can be useful - the rest and in particular anything using batteries will be scrapped in short order.
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