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AIDG Blog [Appropriate Technology, Development, Environment]
AIDG’s Konkou Biznis Ayiti business plan competition is seeking applicants for its 2011-2012 season. Do you have a great green business idea in water, sanitation, energy or housing? Apply now to KBA2011 for a chance to win $25,000 to launch your enterprise. KBA applications close November 28th.
Do you have a green business idea for Guatemala? Now is your chance to get $25,000 in support from AIDG. Guateverde applications close November 18th. Apply today!
AIDG Blog interviews Donald Stevens of Shelter 2 Home about the Build Back Better Communities Expo, the growth of his company, and the housing sector in Haiti
AIDG Blog interviews Duquesne Fednard of D&E Green Enterprises 2010-2011 Konkou Biznis Ayiti winner. Duquesne discusses his stove product the Eco Recho, carbon offsets, and the challenges of running an enterprise in Haiti.
In response to the devastating January 12 earthquake, the theme of the 2010 Konkou Biznis Ayiti was Haïti Renouvelée (Haiti Renewed). We were looking for Haitian entrepreneurs and sustainable businesses that can aid in the country’s reconstruction. Here are our six semi-finalists.
Gael Pressoir Lwil Agogo
Modelled after the award-winning Lèt Agogo, Lwil Agogo will use jatropha to provide a an environmentally friendly fuel source, animal feed and land restoration crop all while ensuring a decent and stable livelihood for small and medium sized farmers. Jatropha oil can be used in modified engines as a diesel substitute (the second largest commodity market in Haiti, absorbing 17-25% of Haiti’s hard currency, potentially US 280 million US). Jatropha shells can be used for briquettes ($60 million US market) and the seed pulp for animal feed (approximately $65 million US market). The initial franchisee (Lwil Agogo Saint-Marc, based in Artibonite region of Haiti) will employ 250 farmers and We will provide an internal rate of return> 20% to our investors. For an initial investment of 316 881 USD during the ten (10) years with a discount rate of 10%, the NPV is close to 166 580 USD (and assuming a low productivity). The NPV is positive after the sixth year.
Duquesne Fednard & Jean Fritz Fednard D.&E. Green Enterprises
D & E Green Enterprise, is an institution working in the field of clean and renewable energy in developing countries. Our goal is to find sustainable local solutions to energy problems for all those using biomass as primary energy source by using the market model. Our stoves (EcoRécho) are equipped with a ceramic coating which makes them very efficient and are capable of reducing coal consumption by 50% without affecting the speed or the cooking method. In addition, our products are manufactured locally using local raw materials, creating jobs and other business opportunities in Haiti, where more than 66% of the population was unemployed and 80% lived below the poverty line before the earthquake. To date, we have manufactured and distributed to the local population more than 6,000 improved stoves.
Gary and Tania Pierre-Charles K-Rapas
K-Rapas seeks to solve two issues simultaneously: using non-biodegradable refuse (car tires, juice bottles, milk cans, Styrofoam take-out boxes) to build temporary housing for internally displaced populations. Units are quick to build and quick to take down, cost approximately $2,500 (but per-unit cost diminishes with larger-scale projects) and recycle 250 tires, 3,000 plastic bottles, 500 milk cans and 8,000 Styrofoam plates. The homes will be sold in packages (25, 50, 75, 100) to developers and/or resettlement initiatives.
Lesly Grandin & Jean Eveillard Cazeau BONGAZ
Bongaz was founded in Hinche, Plateau Central in 2009 to help rural people gain access to propane stoves. Sensitive to Haiti’s intense environmental degradation, it’s goal is to spearhead on the one hand, a of propane gas supply center, distribution of stoves adapted to the specific needs of street vendors and canteens; and on the other hand, a simple distribution model suitable for low-income households. Bongaz will build a network of stove distributors across 5 neighbouring municipalities in the region. The company seeks to achieve a turnover of 5.5 million gourdes, or U.S. $140,000.
Elan Moncher ACOD
ACOD (Action et Cooperation en Developpement) was started with the goal of generating income and promoting the availability of certain services in the communities of Mont-Organisé and Carice. Focal points are integrated agriculture, agro-industry and marketing of agricultural products and inputs. The first product will produce vermicompost from kitchen waste, crop residues and starter worms. The product will be used in ACOD organic vegetable farm and excess production will be sold to other farmers and agricultural organizations of local and regional market, representing 75% of farmers in target areas is more than 10,000 consumers whose majority is made up of heads of families. It will play an important role in sanitation as it uses waste as input.
Frantzcy Bien-Aimé & Wilner François CPCEA
The Centre de Production et de Commercialisation d’Energies Aternatives (CPCEA - Centre for Production and Marketing of Alternative Energy) seeks to be a one-stop shop for renewable energy in the goal of protecting the environment while turning a profit. CPCEA is planning to market ranges with improved furnaces and super-efficient fuel briquettes to the surrounding communities who hyper-consume charcoal. Based in Gonaives, the company will target the metropolitan population and that of surrounding communities (70,000 households, or 264,000 inhabitants) and is hoping to achieve a turnover of 28 million gourdes, or U.S. $700,000.
AIDG’s Executive Director Peter Haas got interviewed on building practices in Haiti for the CBC/Radio Canada radio show “The Current”. You can hear the broadcast online:
TED.COM just released a video of AIDG’s Executive Director Peter Haas, talking at TED Global in Oxford, about building collapse in Haiti and the importance of mason training programs like AIDG’s.
You can help us train a mason by giving $68. It is a great investment that will save lives in the next earthquake. Donate $68
If you think this talk is informative please RATE IT as INFORMATIVE on the TED.COM site. This will help keep the message alive.
Date: May 31, 2010 Time: 630PM Location:
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall
200 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101-3428 Google Map Ticket Prices:
Seating chart: http://www.seattlesymphony.org/_dwn/seating_chart.pdf
$35 Founders Tier (VIP): Includes: best house seating and VIP lounge access
$35 Rows A-R
$25 Rows S-RR
$20 Second Tier
$15 Third Tier
Student rate $5.00 off second and third tier seating (must have valid student ID)
Special group rates are available please contact Farah Ebrahim 206 499-8079 or info {at] lucidseattle [dot} com.
Please be aware that there is an $8 Service Charge per order for tickets purchased on-line. There’s no additional fees for tickets purchased at the box office or at LUCID.
Description:
The IO Jazz Awards will honor those individuals, groups and organizations in the Seattle jazz community and beyond who exemplify this quality of sharing what is on the INSIDE, OUT. 100% of the proceeds from the event will be used towards the relief efforts in Haiti.
Seattle bassist and composer Evan Flory-Barnes presents “Acknowledgement of a Celebration: Inheritance, Authenticity and Healing,” a large-ensemble fusion of jazz, hip-hop, and classical music, complete with modern dancers and freestyle break-dancers.
Clarence Acox is an awarding winning band director and jazz drummer. He is a familiar figure in the Seattle music scene and is a native of New Orleans. An accomplished and in demand drummer, Acox co-founded the Seattle Repetory Jazz Orchestra in 1995 and performed with the Floyd Standifer Quartet (now Legends quartet) at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant for more than two decades. In August 2007 Clarence Acox was awarded the Mayor’s Arts award by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.
The group’s live performances have become a celebration of life, and a dip in the sea of rapture. The music weaves seamlessly through a myriad of feels – boom-bap hip hop grooves, explosive swing, emotion-laden rock, “fat-man” blues, samba, drum ‘n bass & meditative chanting.
Miles Davis Tribute Performance
Owour Arunga, Aham Olu, Scott Morning, Jason Parker
“Playing his own take on Rumba, African funk Seattle guitarist Leif Totusek leads one of the most promising groups, Freestyle Candela”, raves Fernando Gonzales, Boston Globe. His compositions are based on Soukous guitar with infuences ranging from Hendrix to Haiti.
Street poet Jesse Lee personifies what happens when dreams take flight. Born Seattelite his vision is simple: to paint poetry back into the hearts & minds of the masses using visual backdrops of mixed media projections & a tailored sound score of live and synthesized music. To some his unique presentation may signify the evolution of poetry, to Jesse Lee it just simple poetry, excessively dressed.
Seattle’s soul-singer-songwriter Darrius Willrich drips a sensuous interplay of soul, jazz, and inner city longings. Sure to engage all your senses, with the look, sound and feel of yesterday’s soul-today. The spirit of Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo, and Herbie Hancock, season the musical stew that is Darrius…Sweet Urban Soul
Trombonist/Composer Andy Clausen established his sextet in 2007 with fellow members of the Roosevelt High School jazz band to serve as a testing ground for their diverse compositions. The compositions range in tone from powerful to lyrical to whimsical, yet each song conveys the commitment of the members of this group of young musicians and friends to a common vision of jazz that is both fresh and sophisticated
Greta Matassa wins wide acclaim in the Pacific NW for her contribution to Jazz Music. Readers of Earshot Jazz Magazine have voted her the best jazz vocalist in the Northwest. Jim Wilke, host of the syndicated “Jazz After Hours” radio program, praises her versatility. “She has a fearlessness in approaching material.” Seattle Times critic Misha Berson described Matassa as a vocal chameleon who “can sound husky or crisp, ebullient or wailing, girlish or jaded.” Matassa consistently displays these qualities in each of her performances.
“A rising Seattle talent, Kelly blends classic jazz and contemporary jazz, soul, blues, funk and Brazilian music to create an engaging atmosphere. Subtle, sensitive and polished, her honest delivery complements the rich, soulful quality of her voice.”
Seattle’s favorite neo-soul artist, Adrian has shared the stage with national R&B and soul artists Jon B, Avant, Case, Carl Thomas, and Dwele to name a few. With numerous performances at a steady pace and word-of-mouth spreading among the town and it’s artists. Counting Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, D’Angelo and Raphael Saadiq as some of his primary influences, Adrian has combined his inspirations into a stunning new sound all his own.
EMILY MCINTOSH is an indisputably gifted Vocalist and one whose voice deserves to be listened to and celebrated. This Cum Laude Cornish College of the Arts Graduate is a full-time Vocal Coach & Session Singer. Emily has many accolades to her credit. She is the voice singing jingles of many of the most popular radio shows including The Delilah Show. She was the opening act for soul legend Al Green last year, and she’s shared the stage singing duets with Huey Lewis.Be on the look out for big things from Seattle’s Soulful, Jazzy Songstress Emily McIntosh
Guitarist Tom Baker, drummer Greg Campbell, clarinetist Jesse Canterbury and bassist Brian Cobb have been working as a quartet since 2004, playing modern avant-jazz tunes and crafting beautiful and haunting improvisations. Their music blurs the boundaries between notated music and free improvisation; the unique sonic landscapes that result are grounded in history, while pushing at the boundaries of avant-jazz music.
In the days and weeks following the January 12th earthquake, relief organizations and redevelopment efforts swarmed into Haiti—fueled by the immediacy to rescue survivors and develop temporary living scenarios. Now, with the disaster out of the headlines and the rainy season looming, opinions and direction are swirling as to “how” to construct a new Haiti. Will social venture prevail? How will the Haitian community be justly represented? How can the cycle of poverty be reversed and a more self-sufficient economy nurtured? Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, and Peter Haas, founder of Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group [AIDG], explain their perspectives, fears and truths surrounding the epic redevelopment effort.
AIDG’s Technology R&D Program is pleased to present a new series of technical documents that have been produced during various projects we have worked on in the last 5 years. During the first 3 years of the program, the documentation was produced in a haphazard way, but around the beginning of 2008 we realized that that wasn’t going to provide a good base for future work the way that more systematic documentation could. Since that point, we have tried to document projects more thoroughly as they are ongoing, so that the information isn’t lost and we and others can build on the work that has been done. During the last year, we have been extremely lucky to have intern Ben Dana undertake the arduous task of pulling together information from many of the previous projects and put into one place.
In presenting these documents, we would like to accomplish two things. First, we would like to provide anyone who is interested the opportunity to learn from our mistakes and our successes, to see a bit of the process we have gone through in different development projects, and apply those lessons to their own projects. Second, we would like to tap into the worldwide appropriate technology community and stimulate further development of the technologies we have worked with.
We’re still developing a plan for how to best stimulate this type of development. In the next few months, we hope to pursue alliances and implement tools to allow the information to spread as far as possible, to encourage people to do further work, and to provide a forum for discussion of that work and presentation of results. In the meanwhile, we’d like to present several documents, and we invite everyone to comment on them, on anything and everything that comes to mind. We’re looking for feedback on format, appearance, the type and quantity of information that the documents contain, and anything else.
Mitchell-Banki turbine
These are the documents we will be presenting over the following weeks:
Picohydro Bucket Generator
Build Manual
Turbine Performance Testing Results
Alternator Performance Testing Results
Serpentine Solar Water Heater
Build Manual in English and Spanish
Design Manual in English and Spanish
Rocket Box Stove
Build Manual in English and Spanish
Design Manual in English and Spanish
Jan Portegjis’ Hummingbird Electronic Load Controller
Our experience with the circuit and modifications we have made, in English and Spanish
Condensed Design Manual in Spanish
Mitchell-Banki Turbine
Design Manual
Fabrication Manual
Project Summary from Corazon del Bosque Installation
Waste Oil Foundry
Design Manual
Build Manual
Pelton Turbine
Our experience with the turbine and modifications we have made of Practical Action’s design
Manufacturing guide
Project Design Document from Nueva Alianza Installation
For each of the technologies we will be doing a blog post, and the documents will be linked to from the blog post. I hope that you all enjoy the documents, that they are useful, and most of all that you tell us what you think.
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