Using technologies to change the world

[hans.dek...@gmail.com]

Two billion people do not have access to electricity and are therefore
deprived from many blessings that most of us take for granted. The IEA
and G8 have taken note of the fact and argue the need to embark on
development programmes to make a change, but there are in the shorter
term opportunities to jump-start the change. One is to support
Practical Action, which is an organisation that takes into service
innovative low-demand energy technologies and renewable fuels to
disseminate in small scale among the poor. Or as the say themselves:
"using technologies to change the world".

They have a multi-facetted energy menu and also publish good energy
technology briefs that help selecting the proper technology for each
situation. And the projects also have a distinct social function. One
example is the energy-efficient stoves that reduce the need for fuel
collected by women and children in hostile neighbourhoods. Such stoves
save both suffering and probably also lives.

More information and links:
http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/877