the FoST Revolution - an article about FoST on Celsias.com
Celsias.com:
....... FoST uses a myriad of tools and workshops to help fight poverty, deforestation and water and airborne diseases. Based on the documentary (see bottom of post) made by Sandra and her family, only 29% of the forest remains due to land clearing and the high demand for timber and fuel. Not only does this deforestation contribute to global warming and decreased biodiversity, but also more directly to landslides and avalanches among other maladies.
The poor waste management of the Kathmandu Valley has ruined the air and water quality (slaughterhouse waste dumped directly in what they refer to as the “Holy River” in a residential area!), requiring the people to boil drinking water on a daily basis. This means that not only do they not have access to clean drinking water, they’re spending 20% of their daily expenses (which total about $2.00) on fuel.
So, Shrestha invented briquettes made from acceptable household, forest and industry waste. Because the briquettes are so dry, they burn very clean, get super hot and are virtually smokeless. He’s introduced solar cookers and ovens — pollution- and fuel-free cooking tools that can be made of recycled materials and rely on heat and light from the sun to cook food.
A non-solar alternative to solar cooking is heat retaining boxes in which one places a stove heated pot inside the box, where cooking is completed by retaining the already generated stove heat, using about 1/3 of the energy......
If you wish to read more please visit the Celsias website by clicking (or copy and paste) on the link below.
http://www.celsias.com/2008/03/21/the-fost-revolution/
we need to keep pushing energy independence. Every other political concern is secondary. If we want peace and a greener world we need to stop paying for oil wars and stop paying dictators for oil. If we want to revive the economy we need to stop giving our money away to oil tycoons in foreign lands. We need to spend that cash on domestic sources.
What can you do in your own life for energy dependence and a more sustainable existence? There's some information floating around the internet that gives
food for thought:
Gas Station dependence on Middle Eastern oil:
* Shell................205,742,000 barrels
* Chevron/Texaco.......144,332,000 barrels
* Exxon /Mobil.........130,082,000 barrels
* Marathon/Speedway....117,740,000 barrels
* Amoco................62,231,000 barrels
* Citgo..........0 barrels
* Sunoco.........0 barrels
* Conoco.........0 barrels
* Sinclair.......0 barrels
* BP/Phillips....0 barrels
* Hess...........0 barrels
If it's true, it gives an indication of where you should and should not buy gas.
Another consideration: if you don't use phone books why not opt out of getting a new one 4 times a year.
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