Category Archives: Engineers Without Borders

Volunteering with the Navajos

Posted on 01-April-2011 by

Two weeks ago, I spent 10 days with 50 student volunteers from the College of Eastern Utah, Brigham Young University, and the University of Utah.  The students were accompanied by an assortment of professionals from Engineers Without Borders, the Bureau of Reclamation, and … Continue reading →

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Lighting Up Diablo Canyon, Arizona

Posted on 27-January-2011 by

According an article by Cindy Yurth in the Navajo Times (22 Dec 2011): [Paula] Curtis is the first beneficiary of the Plateau Solar Project, a partnership between Navajo nonprofit IINA Solutions, Mark Snyder Electric and Global Solar Water Power Systems. … Continue reading →

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Container Home

Posted on 25-January-2011 by

From a magazine I picked up in The Netherlands:

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Ugandan Swing Set with the Best View

Posted on 04-December-2010 by

We spent last night in Katosi (3 Dec 2010), a small fishing village not far from Kampala.  The village is located on the shores of Lake Victoria. Today, a group from SeeeMe Institute (Logan, UT) traveled to a local women’s center to … Continue reading →

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Africa . . . What to Do?

Posted on 04-December-2010 by

I’m currently in Uganda, in east-central Africa.  This is my 5th trip.  The reasons I come here are many.  Uganda doesn’t get a lot of tourism, so crime isn’t the problem it is in neighboring countries.  The people are very … Continue reading →

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Low-Tech Training

Posted on 20-November-2010 by

Jay Reeves (The Associated Press) had the following published in the SLTrib (19 Nov 2010): Hundreds of people from about 85 countries have come to rural Alabama for training in the 31 years since the opening of Servants of Faith … Continue reading →

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Hogan’s Heroes . . . Part II

Posted on 16-November-2010 by

Last weekend (11 Nov 2010), a BYU student club and several members of the Great Salt Lake Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) traveled to the small Navajo community at Westwater (adjacent to Blanding City, UT).  The goal was … Continue reading →

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One Strange Day

Posted on 06-November-2010 by

On November 2, 2010, I overnighted in Moab, UT.  I got up the next morning and headed to a gasoline station.  There I met an old acquiantence.  He had once worked for the USDA as their Navajo coordinator.  He “quit” … Continue reading →

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Gaviotas Colombia . . . Part III

Posted on 02-November-2010 by

The following is quoted from an article by Laurie Guevara-Stone in Home Power (Dec and Jan 2011).  It concerns a trip several of us took to Gaviotas, Colombia, in March 2010: Innovation through Experimentation According to (Pablo) Lugari, the community (Gaviotas) thrives on overcoming … Continue reading →

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Global Mormon Feminists in Northern Uganda

Posted on 30-October-2010 by

The following is taken from an article written by Pegger Fletcher Stack for the SLTrib (29 Oct 2010): (Judy) Dushku–a political science professor at Suffolk University in Boston, LDS Boston Stake Relief Society president and now president of an international … Continue reading →

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