!Si, se puede! by SignyM

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!Si, se puede!

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, August 4, 2007 00:02
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 8:33 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Solar power makes tiny village beam

GUDDA, India (CNN) -- In Gudda, a village with very little, residents are literally beaming. Just two years ago, villagers had never seen light after dark, unless it came from the moon. Then, solar light arrived and changed everything.
"When the lanterns first arrived, the villagers asked, 'What is this?' " says Hanuman Ram, the local solar engineer. "I explained to them how it worked. Then slowly, as people saw it, they said, 'Wow, what a thing this is!' "

Ram, the man credited with the transformation, doesn't have a high school degree. But he did attend an institution about an hour away called Barefoot College established 35 years ago with an emphasis on helping India's rural population find solutions for their problems among themselves.

... On a recent visit to the main college campus, a group of village women were hard at work making solar cookers, which can boil a liter of water in eight minutes. They are part of the "Women Barefoot Solar Cooker Engineers Society" -- six women who came together and started their own business.

Barefoot College serves an outlying community of 125,000 people. In a nearby village, women flock to a water desalinization and purification plant set up by the college and maintained by Barefoot graduates. The station, powered by solar panels, provides the area with a rare commodity: clean drinking water.

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Always look upstream.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:34 AM

LEADB

Nice to have a ray of sunshine in the news!

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 5:27 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Not only could this provide clean water in Africa and other places, it could be used to water trees to reverse desertification.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070604222124.htm

Date: June 5, 2007

Making Water From Thin Air

Two architects pursuing PhDs at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have devised a low-tech way to collect dew from the air and turn it into fresh water. Their invention recently won an international competition seeking to make clean, safe water available to millions around the world.

Inspired by the dew-collecting properties of leaves, one 315 sq ft unit can extract a minimum of 48 liters of fresh water from the air each day. Depending on the number of collectors used, an unlimited daily supply of water could be produced even in remote and polluted places.

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"Global warming - it's not just a fact, it's a choice."

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 6:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

That sounds too good to be true Signy... sure it wasn't some smart girls that played the part after they went back in time like on Timecop and started their own business which could not only give them riches beyond their wildest dreams, but also set themselves up to be the Goddesses of the town they conquered in some foreign land.

I mean, I can still go to Africa on a boat today and bring nothing but a lighter with me today and still be considered a God when I leave the boat and show the natives that I can start fire with my hand, right?

lol....

Just playing with ya Signy. As much as I like to play the happy loner miserable in his bs, I know that I'd probably be a well centered individual today if I had let one of the women who loved me be my anchor.....

Good for the Indian village. I pray that they never advance as far as we have in America, but I know ahead of time those prayers will be unanswered. It won't be a hundred years before they've gone from "no lantern" to "Mommy, will you please buy me an IPhone? All of my friends have one... don't you want me to be cool too?"

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 12:40 PM

FREDGIBLET

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It won't be a hundred years before they've gone from "no lantern" to "Mommy, will you please buy me an IPhone? All of my friends have one... don't you want me to be cool too?"

Oh come on 6ix, it's not "don't you want me to be cool too?" It's "don't you love me?" or if the parents are divorced "don't you love me as much as {other parent}?"

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

lol.... right Fred. My bad. Turning 28 this month... guess it's not like riding a bicycle. Forgot how that bit went word for word.

Got kids using that one on you yet?

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:33 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Damn uppity females. First they'll improve their families lives, then before you know it they'll undergo the demograpic transition and not want any kids. Don't they know they're supposed to be happy being barefoot and pregnant ?

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Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:50 AM

FREDGIBLET

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Got kids using that one on you yet?

Me? Spawn? ...no, in fact I'm 21 and considering a vasectomy specifically to prevent any chance of spawning. *Shivers at the thought of having kids*

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Thursday, August 2, 2007 7:00 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I'm sure you've heard this before, but the people most reluctant to have kids are prolly the ones responsible enough to be good parents.

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I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me.

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Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:00 AM

FREMDFIRMA

That's what evil little neices are for.

Pity the poor world they'll some day be unleashed upon

-F

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Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:25 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
I'm sure you've heard this before, but the people most reluctant to have kids are prolly the ones responsible enough to be good parents.

Heh... that's funny Signy. My dad's always saying that to me. He says I'm one of the ones that should be having kids.

'Course he's prolly biased and he's never seen me in action here...

Frem... it's better that the world your nieces are unleashed upon are in a position to make one pity the world, rather than the other way around.

Fred... boy, you're a youngin' too. Don't get the tubes tied just yet though man. I know that 10 years ago I thought a lot different about my life and the world around me than I do today, and I hope 10 years from now that outlook has improved. Who knows? You might find the perfect girl who really wants kids and can be very persuasive. Then you're looking at another surgery to undo it that might not even work. Pity if you would have to adopt or if she left you then for a guy that could bear her children.

Stick with the condoms for now. They make ya last longer too....

And NEVER NEVER NEVER believe her when she says she's on the pill. I've got a few friends that could tell you about that lie. Man, they love their kids, but when that trap is sprung, and the parents don't stay together, that's a whole lot of crap that kid's going to have to go through for the next 18 or so years, and they'll likely bring that baggage with them into adulthood.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Friday, August 3, 2007 8:25 AM

FREDGIBLET

Actually I've discovered a much better form of birth control then condoms...being myself. It works wonders

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Friday, August 3, 2007 11:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Pulling out? Yeah... that works well too....

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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Saturday, August 4, 2007 12:02 AM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

OK I was thrilled to read this thread and all the good news that's in it... but Jack... Don't you know pulling out is nowhere near as satisfying for you or your partner??

Sometimes it's just not satisfying enough...

And, you guys, these ladies are barefoot - what do you want them to be pregnant for anyway?

Oh by the way - I would dearly love to have kids of my own, but I am simply not prepared to do it without the right partner with whom I intend to remain for life... so as for 'saying' I'm on the pill... if I do say it, I mean it!!

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