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Earth Enable Floors

Earth Enable Floors

Website: www.earthenable.org Description: What is Earthen Flooring?Earthen Floors are made by compressing different layers of natural materials tightly down, and sealing it off to make it waterproof using a layer of oil. These floors are less expensive than concrete floors. Dirt floors cause significant health problems. Eliminating a dirt floor from the home results in dramatic reductions in childhood asthma, diarrhea, malnutrition, and parasitic infestations. Earthen floors

Cities of Service

Cities of Service

Website: https://citiesofservice.org/ Description: Cities of Service is a US nonprofit that networks city mayors and city chief executives to help leaders engage local communities and residents, identify challenges, and solve problems together. Blueprints and playbooks are available to download and share. Make your city stronger... starting with your leadership.They work with cities to build city-led, citizen-powered initiatives that target specific needs, achieve long-term a

Cool Roofs

Cool Roofs

Website: http://www.citiesofservice.org/content/cool-roofs Email: Description :Save money. Stay cool. Lowering the temperature of buildings and homes can be easy. A cool roof is one that has been designed to reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat than a standard roof. Cool roofs can be made of a highly reflective type of paint, a sheet covering, or highly reflective tiles or shingles. Nearly any type of building can benefit from a cool roof, but consider the climate and o

Love Your Block

Love Your Block

Website: Cities of Service: Love your Block Program Description: Community templates for communities to tackle one block at a time. Well-tended public spaces help create sustainable cities and prevent crime. The Cities of Service Love Your Block Blueprints help residents revitalize their neighborhoods, one block at a time. From community gardens, to block art or Graffiti Busters. Proven methods for mayors to target community grants that go a long way. Implementation Effort: M

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Barefoot College

Barefoot College

Website: http://barefootcollege.org Description: Training that addresses problems of drinking water, girl's education, health and sanitation, rural unemployment, as well as social awareness and the conservation of the organizations that already exist in the villages whose wisdom, knowledge and skills are neither identified, mobilized nor applied just because they do not have an educational qualification.The Barefoot College is a place of learning and unlearning. It's a place

Shallow Well Rope Pump

Shallow Well Rope Pump

Website: http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/modules/wat-ro.htm Description: Complete plans for creating a shallow well rope pump. Training documents on this web site, this one is based upon the principle that communities can best be strengthened (empowered) by doing things for themselves rather than waiting for outside charity. The technical or engineering aspects are meant to be used as an illustration of that principle. Link includes details, illustrations and pros and cons. Why: The

Heifer International

Heifer International

Website: Email: Description: Heifer envisions…A world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet. Heifer’s mission is…To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. Heifer's strategy is…To “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches

NRDC Action Center

NRDC Action Center

Website: http://nrdc.org Description: NRDC's Action Center provides tools, tips and information you need to help protect the earth's extraordinary wealth of natural treasures. Sign up for free bi-weekly email alerts on urgent issues needing your immediate action, join our Activist Network. Allows users to send correspondence to government representatives. Why: Allows users to be informed about natural resource issues and respond to issues. Implementation Effort: Simple Audien

E-Stewards

E-Stewards

E-Stewards - Reducing High-Tech Toxic Export Website: http://www.ban.org Description: This site provides contacts for vendors providing appropriate high-tech recycling. Using appropriate recycling of high-tech disposal is the only way to avoid exporting escalating global trade in toxic, obsolete, discarded computers and other e-scrap collected in North America and Europe and sent to developing countries by waste brokers and so-called recyclers. Why: The e-Stewards are North A

KickStart Irrigation System

KickStart Irrigation System

Website: http://kickstart.org/why-irrigation/#the-solution Description: Fights poverty in sub-Saharan Africa by selling low-cost irrigation pumps that dramatically raise farmers’ crop yields and incomes. Why: Pumping water can help a farmer grow grain in the dry season, when it fetches triple the normal price. Inventor Dr. Martin Fisher described customers who had skipped meals for weeks to buy a pump and then earned $1,000 the next year selling vegetables. This innovation h

Low -Cost Internet Kiosks for Developing Countries

Low -Cost Internet Kiosks for Developing Countries

Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X8Y989Jro8 Description: Low-Cost Internet access and employment. These kiosks provide valuable services to communities while providing profitable employment options to the entrepreneurs who open them. A Google Tech video presentation Why: Users can download vital records, land records, consulting on medical and agricultural problems, crop and personal insurance, communications and banking. Low cost, reliable, user mobility, uses existi

Solar Cookers International

Solar Cookers International

Website: http://solarcookers.org/ Description: Plans for building your own solar cookers, or purchasing, training as well. Why: Food is easily and conveniently cooked with solar energy as the "fuel" in devices called solar cookers (or solar ovens). Solar cookers are an ideal addition to any kitchen wherever there are predictable hours of sun many days of the year. Solar cooking and baking are easy. Solar cookers are safe around children and provide a great way to learn about

Bamboo Bike Project

Bamboo Bike Project

Website: http://calfeedesign.com/calfee-bamboo-diy-kit/ Description: The bike is an inexpensive and effective option for impoverished regions made from Bamboo that has been smoked and heat treated to prevent splitting. Lugs are available in carbon fiber or hemp fiber, for the all-natural look. The chain-stays are available in carbon fiber for extra stiffness in the drive-train. Award-winning effectiveness. Why: The Bamboo Bike Project is a collaboration between Scientists and

Biosand Water Filters

Biosand Water Filters

Website: http://www.rowleyprojects.com Public Email: angelarowley@ntlworld.com Description: In rural W. Kenya we have successfully set up workshops to make Biosand Water Filters which are able to filter the local river water, making it fit to drink even for us! Lab tests have confirmed that the water is rid of all harmful bacteria. The workshops then run as small businesses selling the filters. Why: In rural W. Kenya we have successfully set up workshops to make Biosand Wate

Jaipur Foot Artificial limb

Jaipur Foot Artificial limb

Website: http://www.jaipurfoot.org Description: Effective, lightweight, versatile and realistic artificial lower limb. The Jaipur foot costs only $35 or less in India , though it would cost thousands in Western countries. Why: The Jaipur foot is a light weight, low-cost, durable, waterproof and effective artificial prosthesis. Those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles--and its low price. The inventors, Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, an orthopedic surgeon, and a renow

Stop Junk Mail

Stop Junk Mail

Description: Tired of all those credit card applications and catalogs clogging your mailbox? Now you can do something to help stop junk mail--and fight deforestation and global warming. ForestEthics is making a difference. Learn more here. Why: Junk mail destroys forests, fills landfills and misuses resources. It's an easy way to improve sustainability... we can all insist on NO more junk mail. rnIt takes more than 100 million trees to produce the amount of junk mail that arr

Chicken Tractor

Chicken Tractor

Website Public Email: Description: A chicken tractor is a movable floor-less chicken coop for the purposes of pest control, lawn care, fertilization, and sheltering the chickens. When compared to traditional chicken coops the chicken tractor is far superior in many ways. The chicken tractor is a large step towards sustainable farming, and solves many of the problems that are presented by traditional coops and buildings used to house chickens. A chicken tractor is a bottomless

Child and Family Wellness Shops

Child and Family Wellness Shops

Child and Family Wellness (CFW) Shops The HealthStore model is a network of micro pharmacies and clinics whose mission is to provide access to essential medicines to marginalized populations in the developing world. Based on a unique collaboration of micro-finance and franchise models to keep costs down and provide consistent quality healthcare while providing income for a professional healthcare worker. The HealthStore outlets target the most common killer diseases includi

Keeping Children Safe - Child Protection Toolkit

Keeping Children Safe - Child Protection Toolkit

Website: http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/ http://www.keepingchildrensafe.org.uk/resources Email: jwijnants@keepingchildrensafe.org.uk "Keeping Children Safe Toolkits" and resources enable organizations, wherever they are in the world, to develop practical child protection procedures and give staff vital training and support. Why: Keeping Children Safe - a toolkit for child protection has been developed in collaboration with the NSPCC and a coalition of international age

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