Monday, 13 February 2012 08:06 Paul Tentena   East African Business Week KAMPALA, UGANDA – After completing her degree in Chemistry majoring in natural products, Angela Mbabazi did not sit home to look for a job, a common practice for many Ugandan graduates. She devised means of creating employment and transforming rural societies from peasants  to [...]

NAPECA ; The CEC Council has established a new grant program, the North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) to support communities in their efforts to address environmental problems locally. From The Climate Foundation; Converting Municipal Solid Waste to Biochar in North America http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=751&SiteNodeID=1084 Who the The Climate Foundation is; http://www.climatefoundation.org/who-we-are-b I really like [...]

Monday, February 06, 2012, 07:00pm – 09:00pm Biogas Cook Stoves and the Earth Healing Potential of Biochar On Monday, February 6th, Quimper Grange will host engineer and technology enthusiast, Francesco Tortorici. He will be talking about a revolutionary clean burning cook stove that can use anything from small twigs to peanut shells or even straw [...]

Two weeks ago, we kicked off the Estufa Finca Training program by cooking a great big pot of soup on the stoves with members from 18 BriBri households. All the participants came to ACOMUITA, the association of indigenous women’s chocolate, for the day to learn how to use the stoves and to save the biochar. [...]

TLUD Workshop being offered prior to ETHOS Conference: Biomass Energy Foundation is offering a Workshop on the technical and practical concepts of its micro-gasification units. Dr. Paul Anderson aka “Dr TLUD” will provide an overview of the science and technology of the Top Lit Up Draft (TLUD) stove and its applications in meeting the cooking [...]

by Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor Journal of Sustainable Human Development http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n12page1.html#editorial According to Christian tradition, a baby was born to poor migrant parents about 2000 years ago in the outskirts of Bethlehem of Judea – an obscure town approximately 5 miles south of Jerusalem in what is now the occupied West Bank. It was dark [...]

We hope that you are enjoying this holiday season with friends and family. Here in Costa Rica, we are busy preparing for holiday celebrations too. We made brownies last night to put in the Christmas stockings of the workers at the APPTA cacao association! Our project is off to a rolling start in the Talamanca [...]

Our project partners at ACOMUITA (Association of Women of Talamanca) and at APPTA (Association of Small Producers of Talamanca) have recommended Amubri, an Indigenous BriBri community, as a wonderful place to begin the Estufa Finca Project. So we decided to pay a visit to this beautiful town today. To get there, we hopped on a [...]

SeaChar.Org is announcing a turning point in our relationship with our longtime Estufa Finca-Costa Rica partners: APORTES. For two years we have worked together to create a biochar cook-stove project which would be run by and for the coffee growers and Panamanian Ngobe coffee picker community. On Saturday December 3rd, APORTES organizer Carolina Abraca Calderon and a team of [...]

Hola, It’s been a week since Erick installed Miriam’s stove so I walked to her home this afternoon to see how she was doing. The road into her finca is pretty rough but the scenery is gorgeous, so I really enjoyed the walk. We talked for a while about the event next Saturday and she [...]