Next Meeting: Innovative climate solutions for Developing Countries

Tuesday, 16 February at 5:30-6:30 in ECCR 265  

Speaker, Tsegay Wolde-Georgis

EWB Team will open the meeting by discussing what they did at their sites in Rwanda, Peru and Nepal over winter break. Then we will move on to our main speaker. 

Tsegay Wolde-Georgis is a member of the Consortium for Capacity Building based out of the University of Colorado. He does outreach in the interaction between climate and society with particular focus on rural livelihoods. The consortium focuses on increasing the capacity of societies for climate change adaptation in the areas of food security, energy (e.g. biofuels), and water (drinking and irrigation) with a focus on rural communities (those in Africa in particular).

The presentation will be on clay pots that are burred for watering in low rain climates. From their blog : Unglazed clay pots are buried in the sub-soil and filled with water. The seeds or seedlings are planted around the water-filled buried clay pot. The roots of the plant take advantage of the sub-surface water that seeps through the pores in the pot to wet the soil and water the plants. 

For more information:

Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) Website  

Other Meetings this semester 

16 February: Building low cost housing for refugee communities, by Professor Jelacia with Five Squared.

20 April: Affordable high-altitude, cold-climate biodigeseters, by Virgil Weatherford (BSP Master Student, UCB)

TBD: EWB Workshop on Engineering Issues for Developing Communities! 

EWB and Haiti

As people try to find ways to contribute to helping the victims of Haiti's devistating earthquake, many have naturaly turned to EWB. While EWB is not a disaster relief organization, the problems created by the earthquake in Haiti will require long term engineering solutions long after the world's attention has turned from immediate humanitarian disaster. Therefore, for those looking to help Haiti in a long-term way through EWB we invite you to donate to EWB-USA Haiti teams through their site. This link lists several professional and student chapters that are currently working to improve the lives of Haitians.