By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

The title of the article offered by Inter Press Service and truthout.org gives us, Egypt: Rooftops Empower The Poor. The article is really quite helpful and offers simple technology using readily available materials and techniques.

I won’t review the article, but I will post a small quote from the article to pique your interest.  Not necessarily in the hope that you’ll salvage everything you can to replicate a rooftop in Egypt, but to suggest opportunities which might make a difference in your own life:

The two solar panels and bio-gas unit on the roof of Soliman’s building in Darb El-Ahmar provide hot water and cooking gas to his two-bedroom apartment, reducing his family’s carbon footprint and energy costs. The clean energy appliances, made mostly from recycled material, have reduced his household’s waste and have meant that “my gas and electricity bills are much less than before,” says Soliman. They shaved nearly 50 percent off the utility bills.

Carbon footprints are of little interest to me at this time because it seems that the whole “global warming/climate change” effort has tumbled rear-end over teakettle … at least for now and maybe far into the future.  Something about scads of emails and weather cold enough to freeze the horns off of a brass billy goat.

Here’s the article in its entirety from Inter Press Service and truthout.org.

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