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Biogas for All!

In Tanzania, we are working with local schools on Green Gas systems (Anaerobic Digesters) for both education and energy supply. Tanzania is facing extensive deforestation – the schools send the kids out foraging for wood to cook lunch. Two schools now have Anaerobic Digesters that turn cow manure into Green Gas – and they have gas cook stoves for lunch. They are teaching the kids and their parents how the system works to turn waste into energy! Larger Scale Solid Waste to Energy is in Boston, Middlebury College and many other places.

KiSES Clean Cooking Kit

Our next project, initially in Tanzania, is the KiSES Clean Cooking Kit – a complete battery operated electric kitchen kit with dual hob induction cook-top, induction pans, solar recharging, and spare outlets for other electronics and USB recharging in one complete, easy to install kit with all components included. KiSES will also provide education on electrical safety and electric kitchen operation. The KiSES Kit not only eliminates fuel cost and burnt fuel pollution, but also addresses Rural Electrification, Clean Cooking, Renewable Energy, and aims to lessen poverty from energy and fuel bills.

In Haiti, we are working with Rezo Lekol Kreyol (Network of Kreyole Schools) on solar electric replacements for diesel generators for water, device charging, and lighting. 

We are also developing a "Kinder Garden" program to associate growing food with the school lunch program, as well as cash crops, such as bamboo. Bamboo growing and processing can help address multiple needs – protein food, building materials, pulp and paper, textiles, and clean biomass fuel. We are seeking funding to partner with MIT to develop a new Garden School Campus (Click - Exec Summary) built from sustainable Bamboo.

Vermont is also facing clear-cut forestry for energy. Burlington's McNeil power plant is the state's largest point polluter with 376,077 tons of CO₂ annually because it burns GREEN WOOD harvested from among other places, National Forests and State Forests – hardly green or clean! 

The plant is 50 years old and sells its "renewable energy" certificates to Connecticut rate payers for $6M/year. 

Let's RETIRE MCNEIL!