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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

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

Integral Urban Ecovillage Challenge

Country or Countries Where Challenge Takes Place: 
United States

The challenge is to create a network of Integral Urban Ecovillages in the St. Louis Missouri region, as a model for emergency preparedness, distributed renewable power, food and water production, that is grid positive, more as an exporter of goods and services, including capturing and treating precipitation that falls on the site and treating greywater, vegetative waste and sewage for nutrient energy and water recapture and reuse.

Commodity: 
Water, rivers, caves, trails, people, parks, gardens, mineral springs, water, food, old buildings
Custom & Culture: 
Pride in neighborhood, importance of family, symphony, students earning service hours, schools, universities, art galleries
Knowledge: 
Future residents, universities, schools, engineering professors, climate scientists, school of nutrition, Capstone projects, storytellers, gardeners, Botanical Garden
Money: 
Contract with Commerce Bank for tax credits, sub-local currency, equity, unit reservations
Technology: 
Tools, equipment and materials for SCIPs manufacturing and gardening, Integral Urban Ecovillage, You and I technology, cohousing and ecovillage methodology, cost savings synergies among businesses healing arts, transformational training
Well-Being: 
Community focus, health care facilities, alternative health practitioners, dance, gardens, relationships
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2011-05-21 17:00

Milk Does the Body Good – Can the Government Deny us Freedom of Food?

 

Apart from illegal drugs, raw milk may be the most rapidly traded underground commodity in the United States.  The controversy surrounding the distributing and  selling of raw milk across state lines was brought into the public eye yet again this week when the Feds raided an Amish farm in Kinzers, Pennsylvania. The Feds had been conducting a “covert operation” on Amish farmer Dan Allgyer’s farm for several weeks and are accusing him of violating federal interstate commerce law by selling raw milk to a Maryland food club.

Submitted by DLH on Tue, 2011-05-17 13:06

Woodfired Kiln - Alternative to Electricity

Associated Challenge: 
Arkhangai Greenhouse

According to regional expert, kilns can be built into hillsides.  These kilns must be lined with fire bricks, i.e. bricks that can withstand temperatures over 2376F.  These kilns can reach this temperature being fired with wood and hold thermal mass for 4-5 days.  This style is popular in Korea, Japan and China.  Here are some local example links.  This post will be enhanced upon further research. 

Commodity: 
Firebrick (brick that can withstand high temperature), hillsides, wood
Custom & Culture: 
Use of natural materials vs. electricity
Knowledge: 
Building the fire appropriately
Money: 
market price of firebrick
Technology: 
structuring the kiln and brick configuration
Well-being: 
Use land and natural resources for fired outcomes, clay, glass, etc.
Submitted by KAD on Mon, 2011-05-16 15:00
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