Gen 2.1 La Mazateca cookstove design at the machine shop

Yesterday was a day of significance. After much too long we finally met with Sound manufacturing (Kent WA) to show them our new stove drawings. It has taken us a long time to get to this point but we are confident in our design and Sound manufacturing to make the tooling.

Our first tools and parts will be for the combustion chamber (smallest part of the stove) to test the tooling manufacturing modeling process.

This is a HUGE step on our way to implementing 50 Gen 2.1 Laz Mataca clean cookstoves in Chiapas this coming fall. We are still working on the intellectual property (IP) filings so I can not show any photos or images yet. I hope to have the IP secured in a month or so. When this is complete we can show the public our innovation.

Israeli Solar Desalination Process Cuts Energy Costs by 90%

Israeli ​startup ​TSD (Tethys ​Solar ​Desalination)​ plans to ​revolutionize ​the process ​with a low-cost,​ off-grid, ​scalable, and ​environmentally ​friendly module ​technology ​using only the ​power of the ​sun. 

The most ​common method ​of reverse ​osmosis using ​membranes is ​costly, energy-​intensive, high-​maintenance, ​and environmentally ​problematic. It ​is best suited ​to mega-scale ​plants built on ​large tracts of ​high-value land ​near the ocean ​and consumes ​enormous ​amounts of ​electricity ​generated from ​fossil fuels. ​Then, the ​treated water ​has to be piped ​great distances ​to farms, ​industries, and ​households. ​ (more)

Shrinking glaciers cause state-of-emergency drought in Bolivia

The government of Bolivia, a landlocked country in the heart of South America, has been forced to declare a state of emergency as it faces its worst drought for at least 25 years.

Much of the water supply to La Paz, the highest capital city in the world, and the neighbouring El Alto, Bolivia’s second largest city, comes from the glaciers in the surrounding Andean mountains.
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Give a Little -- Change Lives

Help support our "La Mazateca" cookstove builders

  After a year of development, our Generation 2 cookstove is almost ready to implement.

Your support now will allow us to get this new design in the field sooner.

Your donation directly supports our cookstove building program in Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. That "makes greatness possible" and improves livelihoods for these indigenous, rainforest families and communities.

Researchers find "sweet" solution to kill E. coli in drinking water

Paper strips laced with sugar could be the sweetest solution so far, literally, to kill E. coli in contaminated water. York University researcher Sushanta Mitra says the "DipTreat" discovery will be key to developing a new generation of inexpensive and portable water treatment devices, with human health benefits in Canada and around the world.(more)

Today is World Toilet Day - November 19, 2016

World Water Day - March 22

Water for Humans commends the vital link between water and forests recognized at this UN website for World Water Day.