Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives $50,000 from the UNDP to support a Waste for Life initiative in Lesotho
Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives $50,000 from the UNDP to support a Waste for Life initiative in Lesotho
Caroline, Eric, Thimothy, and Emily have just published a book about Waste for Life and the methodology we have honed during the past four years. From the introduction: Engineers can help make the world a better place. We can provide better access to water, health, food, shelter, education and warmth, and we have the potential [...]
Some members of our team in Lesotho, Australia, Italy, United States and Canada have been working to put together a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program GEF-SGP administered by UNDP Lesotho. The project proposal is in the final stages and it is likely to be funded very soon. The project involves 8 [...]
Describing the Kingston Hot Press in the making at the site powered by the WordPress… The last in many coincidences that led to this involvement. Before going on with the story about the press itself, let me step back a bit and paint the background. This journal entry, as the previous one, reads “Published by [...]
Here at Queen’s University in Kingston we are making the first press prototype these days (July 2007). The whole process is quite exciting for us all, but sometimes frustrating, of course. In the pages below, I will describe the press design, point out the things to watch out for while building the prototype, and describe [...]