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 [...]

SeaChar.org – Seattle Biochar Working Group Greetings, We will be holding a (Short Notice) BioChar Stove Building Workshop on Tuesday, November 22nd from noon to 4pm at S.E.L.F. – Seattle Earth Lost and Foundry, 4710 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle, Wa. 98107 (formally Viking Fire Foundry) We and our Nickelsville EcoVillage volunteers will be building five [...]

———- Forwarded message ———- From: Art Donnelly Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:55 PM Subject: My Little Pony and further SeaChar Adventures in Costa Rica Hi guys, I wanted to catch you up on this past 5-6 days. On Tuesday the 1st Chris and I head off to SeaTac. With me sicker than I [...]

Hola amigos! For those of you who don’t know, I’m in Santa Maria de Dota, in the Los Santos coffee growing region of Costa Rica working on the Estufa Finca – Santos project. Coffee harvest is going to be starting soon so we’re busy getting ready to install clean cook stoves in the homes of [...]