Custom & Culture

Our Partner's Mission Continues To Develop And Grow

 

Behind every amazing foundation is a mission and set of values that helps them to achieve their fullest potential. Recently, after a couple of years already working hard following a certain mission and instilling their values on everyone they interact with,  our partner, Krishna Gurung, of the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation, sat down to fully develop the written description of their mission and values.

 

KREMEF MISSION STATEMENT:

Submitted by DRT on Wed, 2012-02-15 05:14

Papua New Guinea Windmill & Water Project

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Please click on sections below to see the open source technology solutions to the PNG Windmill & Water Project:

Submitted by KAD on Tue, 2012-02-14 10:07

Papua New Guinea Water Project

Country or Countries Where Challenge Takes Place: 
Papua New Guinea
Related GIC Challenges: 
Reynosa Mexico - Plastic Recycling and Water Cleanup

Overview

In 2010, approximately 3,000 families in Papua New Guinea were displaced by a new Liquid Natural Gas extraction operation installed by Exxon Mobil.

The extraction operation displaced four distinct tribes, each with their own unique culture and traditions.  These four communities families are now living together in an open encampment just outside of Port Moresby, without access to clean water, sanitation, power, or adequate shelter.

Commodity: 
Water, land, fertile soil, grasses, trees
Custom & Culture: 
Displaced communities, custom, highland traditions, organization, elders
Knowledge: 
Site/property design/layout, water depth, gravity usage, technology implementation
Money: 
From project contributors, crops, market exchange
Technology: 
Windmill, well drilling technology, piping/distribution, holding tanks, Satellite imagery, photography, video, storytelling
Well-Being: 
Currently negative health conditions, aiming for improved health conditions. Currently organized in a displaced persons community, relocating to a community managed property. Healing, cultural rebirth, sharing, stewardship
Submitted by KAD on Wed, 2011-10-19 09:59

10 Resourceful & Creative Ways to Conserve H20

Many of us who live in the United States do not give much thought to the concept of conserving water. Instead, we choose to water our grass to ensure that it looks pretty throughout the Summer months, we endulge in bubble baths whenever we're stressed, and we let our children run through the sprinklers as long as they want to. Despite this, each of us should be more mindful about our water consumption.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-09-20 19:25

Elegant Solution to Climate Change - By Margaret Barton, M-CAM Intern

 

Climate change is a problem in a world that is rapidly urbanizing. The magnitude of the problem is overwhelming.  By 2050, about 8 billion people are expected to live within one day’s travel of cities. We need to do more than we already are.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-08-30 00:51

Plans to Apply Integral Accounting to the KRMEF Nepal Project

 

The Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF) created an eco-village which is striving to protect the local ecosystem while providing economic opportunities and education to the surrounding poor, disabled, and leper population.

Submitted by DLH on Wed, 2011-08-24 03:23

When the Art of Felting Intertwines 2 Worlds

 

In the summer of 2010, M•CAM team members Ken Dabkowski and Dr. David Martin ventured to Mongolia to initiate the Heritable Innovation Trust program. The Heritable Innovation Trust Program (H.I.T.) is the first non-property based means to document, protect, and steward indigenous and customary knowledge. Enkhtuya Tsend of the Mongolian National Business Incubator Federation introduced them to the members of two felting co-ops; one in Dalanzadgad (the Gobi Desert) and other in IkhTamir Soum, Arkhangai.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-08-16 15:40

Updates on Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation - by Kim Schreiber M-CAM Intern

KRMEF has been nominated for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. Please click the link below for more information please visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/2011Semi_Finalist_PromotingHealthandtheEnvironment.

The foundation is busy working with local NGO leaders and grassroots organizations to plan a large seminar on biodynamic farming that is to take place in three different locations throughout Nepal this November.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-08-02 07:34

A Light in the Dark - By Margaret Barton, M-CAM Intern

Until recently, the digitally created ‘information age’ has broadened the knowledge gap between the rich and the poor. While the developed world has open access to communication and education resources provided by technology, developing countries do not. Digital media has created a problem, but it also can be used to create a solution. One Laptop Per Child (OPLC) is a non-profit organization founded by Nicholas P. Negroponte that provides children in developing countries with a highly durable, low power and low cost laptop.

Submitted by DLH on Fri, 2011-07-22 02:40
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