They're sitting pretty ... hands folded and placed in-between their legs. They're sitting pretty.

People!! Wharrup? Eh? Kilode? What's good? Que pasa? Comment ca va? And all o' that ... and all o' that!


Mehn, I've got pictures on the 1st ever National (Ghana) Congress on Environment, Water, Sanitation, Science to show y'all ... now where that folder at? 
I'll set it up in a bit soon as I settle, okay? Ha!


Okay! So have you donated to our TUORI Biogas Facility Fundraiser yet?
Why not? Oh.


Please .... my eyes are closed. Before I open them, swivel your lovely eyes up to the top right-hand corner of this page ... yes, this very page ... and softly CLICK on the "Donate" button there ... and D O N A T E.


Donate something people. It takes little effort and time, but impacts these people in Tuori in a big way. If you (still) don't know what I'm talking about, see HERE to read all about this Biogas facility for this struggling little farmstead + cattle ranch up north of my country. 
We raising only $3500, and the team to build it donating their own logistics in support (about $3000) ... but we need your donations to make it happen!


Now, have you finished reading the "HERE" link?
Have you clicked the "Donate" button?
Have you donated?


Now, please tell another body...
     .....
I'll wait for you. Please go tell another body.
............................................
(2 hours later)
All done?


Good. Great. Now .... Ghana has gotten REAL PROGRESS in the bio-diesel direction.
A fabulous guy who has also, like me, fought against the odds for almost 5 years to make it happen, has ACTUALLY produced bio-diesel out of normal palmoil, waste vegetable oil, and is working on a 2500-litre capacity for anyone who wants to/feels like using bio-diesel (available right here in Ghana). 
There is also a brilliant Ghanaian from up North with success in sunflower bio-diesel, though not on the same scale as my friend's palmoil and waste vegetable oil AND any other fat source set-up. (Tell you more in next post). And these two people have met ... and I have met one of them, and we are going to meet together ... and you get the idea.


The side products - glycerin - will be used in creating job opportunities for the people in soap making and body lotion too (I use glycerin often when I'm in Europe 'cus my skin gets very dry) and the palm chaff, palm kernels, palmkernel-nuts - will be used for animal meal AND briquettes!!!! 
More jobs. More sustainability!


The bio-diesel from the palm and the waste vegetable oils and the other sources of fat (I have seen the team and the equipment, people!) CAN be used in diesel generators, diesel cars, diesel motors, diesel commercial processors, diesel everything .... and my engineer partner in Aburi is ready to develop more appropriate technology to meet the bio-diesel team of S. Tawiah  for more innovative machines for power, cooking, burning,lighting that can utilise this.


Side intentions are  ... to use the steam produced from the esterification and other processes ... to also power equipment ... on-site and near-site and off-site!


Oh God! I see the future coming, and it looks so good people! And it looks good Ghana style! 
You cannot imagine how happy, hopeful, and high I have been these past few days, just meeting S. Tawiah, seeing his progress, seeing how my plans, works, and his are dove-tailing ... and the vast opportunities and possibilities.


And y'all know I don't write about just anything ... I write about what I am SURE of, whether that thing is good, or bad ... I am often sure about my facts.
And THIS development I am sure about!


I shall be writing more about this, introducing S.T to you all, and making you part of this incredible journey that is now looking very good.


Now .... back to my TUORI Biogas Fundraiser ... 
I am auctioning an awesome picture from RQV (Rodney Quarcoo Visuals), a popular excellent photographer here in Ghana. 
He donated it in support of the fundraiser! I am so grateful! (visit www.ayigbeboy.com to see some of his work).



I am AUCTIONING it, and the funds will go into the Biogas Fundraiser for Tuori. Please join in the auction too ... see the image of Rodney and the picture in question below: 

Rodney Quarcoo with image he donated to Tuori Biogas Facility Fundraiser ... for auction!

Rodney autographing the picture ... at his studios in Accra.

He calls it "No Parking" and it is the first-ever printout of the image. 
He shot it at dawn at one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Accra called Jamestown, and captured the fishermen about to set off in what looked like an impromptu convoy of fishing boats ... the rising sun ahead, on the horizon. 
I will pay $500 for this in a heartbeat. 
It will come framed, can be FedExed to you, and it is autographed by Rodney himself.


I am also going to try and put it up on e-bay, but if not, email me or comment on here, or GooglePlus me about the auction. 


Current offer is GH200cd for the image. It is still going higher.
Someone out here can do better, and get this actual AUTOGRAPHED Rodney Quarcoo image original that tells people you SUPPORTED a Ghanaian village get a biogas facility!
How cool is that?! Let's do this, people!!
Donate too!


MAKSI, the FashionHouse supporting us also handed over their 1st cheque from a percentage of their clothing line sales that they designed to support everything we're doing here at Energy Solutions Foundation. 


They initially intended to support till August, but they fell in love with what this one woman (me, yes me!) is doing here and decided to extend it indefinitely ... so every 3 months, they intend to donate percentage of their sales.


This first cheque came for GH150cd and I put it into the Tuori Biogas Fundraiser kitty.
We have now raised GH1200 cd with GH3300 more to go! HELP people!
See the image of handover below (forgive the quality. A better one will come.) That's Nana Darkoah Sekyiamah of MAKSI (www.maksiclothing.com) handing over the cheque to me:

Nana Sekyiamah of MAKSI handing over 1st cheque for GH150cd  in support of ESF!

One of the fliers MAKSI has out for their campaign with us (ESF)

... And that's me (sans my spectacles). Hello.

People are struggling really hard with fuel, power, energy sources, comrades.
People are fighting hard to get access to what should not even have to be a problem.
When I was in Lawra, Yargpelle and Tuori, the women would leave home at dawn and go scout for twigs, grass, fallen branches (treasure!) and logs (ooh la la!) and carry them home, getting back about almost noon. Before they go fetch water, come and cook, and take care of the home.
The girls and the women do this. Where is the time to make a career or a job, or even go to school? Where is the peace of mind for developing their community, or even the time?
They come down here in droves and flocks and we wonder why. Their sons, brothers, and fathers might become criminals and attack us in our homes, and we wonder why?


Where is the parliamentarian who talks big and joins a string of big words together, and forgets people are actually dying every single one of the minutes he is spouting rhetoric nonsense right here in Ghana ... from poverty, low standards of living, poor housing, nutrition, education, unemployment??
Where is the policy-maker who has the Energy Bill and Renewable Energy Bill of Ghana sitting in his toilet as spare/emergency wipe, or on the magazine rack as comic material instead of actually working hard to pass the damn thing into law and fine-tune it for the people?
Where are the Ghanaian businessmen and wealthy "boggers" who can come together and help people like me, S. Tawiah, others out there also struggling to develop alternatives and future safeguards as we are doing ... to help us financially, network-wise, contact-wise, investment-wise ... to do this?
Where is the President of Ghana?
Where are you, you the one reading this right now?


Are you going to help? Or are you just gonna sit pretty, and clasp your hands in-between your legs ... looking at me?
ARE YOU JUST GONNA SIT PRETTY? ...


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When i went to Wa ... (Last Half of the account)

In the canoe on the Black Volta, approaching the bank, at Lawra

Uncle Dan and the 'gondolier-boy'  - on the Black Volta tributary, Lawra

So we arrived at Uncle Dan’s friend’s place. Francis.

Francis was to be our point of contact for the assessment for the firewood-alternative project.

He made a living by running a small bar and canteen in his compound, and I remember particularly liking the fact that the compound spread into a green green expanse of bushes, baobab and acacia trees which seemed to be 100 years old, and the little dirt road which connected to and from his village, Yargpelle. It was an unfenced compound which blended into an Eden-like surrounding … I felt at any moment, a waterfall would appear to my left, and butterflies would burst out on my right.

There were indeed, birds chirping and singing in the trees nearby, and every now and then, his chubby little puppies would waddle into the bushes and hide in there to gnaw a bone in peace.

It was around a small plastic table on this “compound” that we at and bared our hearts to each other.

I spoke of how all my life, I had never set foot in that part of my country, neither for work nor for pleasure, and most Ghanaians regard them as another country altogether, hardly bothering to learn about them and understand them …

… and how my NGO was often disturbed by news of firewood issues and scuffles amongst their people, knowing how it is their main source of fuel, and also the main cause of deforestation, a situation already making mince-meat of the existence of their brothers and sisters in the other Upper and Northern regions.

I and my assistant were there to lay the foundations for training the women and interested individuals in making briquettes to replace the firewood, and also to give them a source of income because it could easily become a commercial venture to anyone determined enough.

Francis, our host, thanked us, and said his friend and brother, the prince of Tuori, a neighbouring village would speak on their behalf as ‘most worthy’ … Prince Joshua, a.k.a God (indeed they know him more as God than Joshua) .

God told us how his women wake up at dawn each day, and leave home by 5am, out to look for pieces of wood, twigs, and burnable plant life and materials. If they are very very lucky, they will get a log of two.

I cut in and ask, but this place is very green and has quite a number of small trees. What has stopped them from plucking a branch here and there?

God replied, no one is allowed to simply wander onto someone else’s compound or land and pluck off branches or cut trees, no matter if it’s a vast unwalled field. The penalty is dire.

You can only pick twigs on the boundaries, or in the gutters, or on government lands, but even then no one is allowed to cut the trees on said property.

Some people have to resort to cut a tree or 2 on their own compounds or properties in the leanest periods, or for money … but any idiot can see that the trees are diminishing, and there is higher and higher demand for firewood.

So, he concluded, they leave at dawn and usually arrive late morning with whatever they found, and come and cook, farm, tend to the house.

He also told us how pito-brewing also consumed a lot of firewood, and how the wealthiest people were pito-brewers because it sold very well amongst the people. He mentioned that very often, most women sold the best finds of firewood and logs to pito-brewers, because they needed the money more … and that the situation was getting bad.

We then told him how briquettes work, and together we decided on January 2011 as the best time for the training to be given the women, because it would be just after the harvesting period, and the women would be idle and mostly jobless, there would be a lot of post-harvest leftover to use for briquette combinations with cow dung, animal droppings, food peelings, etc. and the atmosphere would be ideal for the training.

In a recent telephone conversation, he has asked me to take one more trip there in November/December to see the women in the village and ascertain the training location before January … things are not easy for them.

In some chit-chat which followed later, we asked him if there was anything else they needed, so we could see if we could help, and he said, “Clay-mining. It’s killing the people. It’s so dangerous, and I lost one of my mothers (his father, the king, has several wives) to it.”

How?

Well, he said. There was a part of the Black Volta tributary which runs through Lawra nearby, where the people extract clay and use for pottery and pito-containers, gourds for chilling water and drinks, keeping food cool, etc. Selling the clay and/or the pottery also brings good income, so most of the women take to it as well.

The thing about it though, was that the clay layer was several feet underneath the top sandy layer, so the miners often dug little rabbit-like holes into the earth to extract the clay.

These rabbit-holes often lead further and further under the superficial loose layer of soil, and many a time, it comes crashing down for lack of support and stability –which would be impossible in that kind of situation. And because the miner is often a woman, and often jammed into the narrow tunnel with no turning space, much more enough air to breathe, if the weight of soil which comes crashing down is very heavy, they suffocate to death or are crushed and choked to death, especially if unable to be pulled out in time.

It was such a crash which killed his ‘mother’, and he is always worried about the fatality of the job.

But due to the amount of money it brings them, they will never stop.

Can we get a machine which will be able to do the drilling beneath the top layer to the clay and get it out for the women?

Sure, there are machines like that, and if not, one can always be fashioned in some of the ingenious metal workshops in Ghana, we say … but how do you power it there at the bank of the tributary, and how reliable is the power (electricity) supply to that part, we ask.

Power it? He asked. And shook his head with a smile.

Do you have good supply of power in Tuori?

Well, things are normal there … we have no electricity, he says easily.

And as our jaws hung wide open, he rested his case with a swig of his Guiness. Drowning his frustrations in drink? No, he’s being Michael Power – strong.dark.powerful.

Gooodammmit! Politics is something, ain’t it?

Whatever happened to honour, keeping your word, seeing to the priorities of your people?

Why were there not factories, processing industries, lively tourist industry, service providers offices, culture and heritage vending supermarkets, several ventures scattered throughout the region?

The people I met in Wa, Jirakpa, Lambussie, Lawra, Tomblibli, Bebli, etc … are very hardworking people. They do not even see themselves to be poor … all they know is that life is hard, and they are suffering with inadequate/complete absence of transportation, insufficient meals, enough money to cater to their health and physical needs, etc.

They are beautiful people, and astonishingly very honest – I have been told of how if you leave something lying somewhere, you are most likely to come back and see it still there, how the Fulanis often infiltrate them, rape their girls and women, steal their livestock and agric, mess up things, and create a bad environment for them.

They speak very very good English, and speak it with a fascinating lilt.

They are fluent in more than 2 other local Ghanaian languages, and are very resilient.

When our crew drove down to Lawra, after our meeting with God, Joshua and co, we passed by the Black Volta tributary (Lawra), and met a canoe returning a woman and her baby to shore.

She had gone over to the “French” (Burkina Faso) side of the tributary for firewood, as most of the women did too, and had returned empty-handed.

The first thing she did when the canoe struck land, was hop down into the water, scoop some up with the calabash she held in hand, and give it tenderly to her months-old baby … who drank it, and she tipped the rest into her own mouth.

The water was brown, very very unclean!

But that was and is their life … is this a great divide or what?

Especially to think that I would stand in some fancy supermarket back in Accra, and bitch about a bottle of sparkling water not being cold enough, giving the shop attendant stress about it, especially since the 0.30p markup on the price out to account for well-chilled water, innit?

I was ashamed and disgusted with myself … ashamed and disgusted that this beautiful district and town, with its surrounding villages was so neglected, its large potential for tourism (it is soooo beautiful) is also ignored.

I still wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad … and when I go back to train them in January 2011, it is with the hope and intention that I would contribute more than a widow’s mite to their development and betterment.

The Okyeame network of Ghana has donated GH800 cedis so far to the project, and some of their members have pledged a bit more … if you wish to donate something, anything for this training, you’ll be much appreciated.

If you wish to volunteer physically to this project and come along with me to train the women, send me a message or call me … and I will give you the terms and conditions.

Either ways … I’m doing this.

World Habitat Day! How can we let you know how important it is?

A child in the slum of Kibera

Kibera

I'd like you all - readers and fellow bloggers - to note this day down in your books, to blog about this in advance or on the day in solidarity, to think about the deepness of this problem, and to spread the word to others via your conversations, blogs, and writings ... 


October 4th, 2010 ... World Habitat Day ...


... tell the world that people need access to affordable housing; to basic amenities; to hope ...


Yes, it's none of your business.
But what if a freak of circumstances, of genes, of nature, had placed you within your parents arms, and they lived in such locations of stark poverty; and you were born into it and know no other?
What if your child got lost in that situation after you had died early? Or you had happened to be a victim of war, devastated in the aftermath.
Or a natural disaster had crushed and shattered your luxurious world and left you on the verge of madness, thinking "this is a dream. I still have my home and my money ... living a good life", and you're still not waking up from that dream?


What if ... what if ... what if ....?


You'll never know, will you? Never know when this nasty situation of homelessness/deprivation will strike at your gut, and rip out a chunk of it, leaving you as just another statistic.
Strike a loved one, or the relatives of someone you love deeply, and you cannot help but feel the pain rub off on you ... strike the people you rely on so that your world comes crumbling down ...


So, reach out and help. Talk about it, and ask questions. Find solutions or recommend some.
Be a propagator and a helper ... help us bring adequate and affordable housing to the people who really need it ... today. Now.


Please.
Visit http://worldhabitatdaynews.org/ lend a hand.

Adopting villages ...

I need some help in making a few choices.

Adaklu-Tokor?

Mampong-Akuapem?

Akyem-Abuakwa?

Aowin-Suaman?

Akwatia?

Though this might seem awfully like 5 Degrees of Separation, it's really not.

Think Renewable Energy ... if you want to know what ought to bind them together.

Help me out here if you are interested ... If ESF is about to 'adopt' a village, where we can best learn how to implement effective Green Energy initiatives, which of these communities should we go for?

If you had this choice to make ... which one would YOU go for?

And if none feels right to you ... which community in Ghana, outside of the city, would you encourage us to adopt?

Now, here we are, sitting in a computer-age of serious technological advancements and child-genuises.

We have a country full of hills and mountains in places ... valleys and plains ... savannahs and forest zones in others.

We could have done better with tourism ... but not as much as we OUGHT to have done much more with them, in terms of producing Green Energy for the people living there.

If the excuse was that it was too expensive back then, well ... it isn't anymore. 'Too expensive' that is.

Neither does one always need to start on a large extensive scale first ... nor does it only have to be the most expensive technology that gets promoted.

On Phase 2 of the Greenfoot Campaign ... we bring you the practical, affordable aspects of acquiring alternative and green energy FOR YOURSELF, BY YOURSELF.

You'll be surprised.

Then you'll wonder why people aren't being made aware of this.

And maybe ... you'll help us do something to avert this energy crisis that looms over Ghana and Africa now.

So ... which one?

On your marks ... 4 weeks to go!

Hi dearies!

So far we've gotten 15 volunteers who have signed up to work with us on the 17th.
Did I hear some clapping? Go on, standing ovation won't hurt! lol ... but I think I'll go ahead for 15 more and stop (or keep taking!). The vols are from Ashesi and Legon so far ... whatsup Central, Winsonsin, Valley View, UCC, KNUST, Zenith, all dem dems?!!!! Represent.

You oughta know, we've got a promotion running as well : for the youth and students who need the extra cash ... every person they sign up into any of our sports competitions (Marathon, Swimming, Cycling) gets them GH 1 cash ... so you sign up 50 people, you get GH 50 instantly!

For those who have already signed up with us, we have promised to refund their registration fee of GH 10 when they get 5 others to sign up! Word ... we will.

So far, so good!

We did a lot of trudging around with fliers from Friday and all through this week.

Most people were excited to hear that the gate fee is going to be GH 2, and if you come in a group of 4, its going to be GH 6 ! Are we crazy?!!! No ... just chilling! lol

Reggie's ticket is going for GH 20 and is for only 150 people. Charity ball tickets are going for GH 50 and for 200 people. We are busy like mad ... and its just 4 weeks away, crikey!

From the pictures above, you can see that we have been around town this week ... We went to Legon to put up fliers and posters, went to Ashesi (whose ITC level allowed us to utilise the digital spreading of fliers ...which has been marvellous), sent some to Central, and sent SMS to all the students we knew personally, so they spread the word. We are putting up campus TV and radio adverts, so that a max of students can be reached. We need their generation primed and ready to go green when they take over the reins of control.

Also, we dedicated one day to taxi drivers, shops and businesses, and other services ... who needed to know about the fair stands.
We will be putting up one last advert in the Graphic in a short while ... to round up final interested people for the fair stands.

Now,I called Zoomlion up to track our letter, and it couldn't be found. Not unusual, if you're wondering ... we face it in most places.
However, the peculiar aspect for Zoomlion's head office is that the employees themselves couldn't seem to tell me which department I could send concerns and invitations to .... There is such a profusion of departments in there, even when they sent me in, i was sent from block to block - receptionist to receptionist ... and finally ended up in a PR office ... where it seemed like the letter would be laid to a decade's rest.

When i tried to fish for a name or a definite person ... people got confused ... The security man told me at the gate ..."it gets in there to the wrong person, and it's lost forever. So you gotta be very precise, lady." Na wa ooo!

How can you have so many departments, such a huge expanse of work area ... and no coordination of data, information, and communication????!!!!

Well, we met Mr. Agyenim Boateng of Wilkins, North Kaneshie (they assemble solar lanterns, and do some solar engineering as well) on Thursday. He had requested the meeting, and was insistent on knowing us, and what the driving force for ESF was ...
Passion, we told him. Passion, and a dream. A big dream.
If there is someone we need to have on board, its him. He is a young success himself ... and we were excited that he was excited about the Greenfoot Campaign. Nice to have you on board, A-B!

Next agenda: Trashy Bags, Dzorwulu.
I was pleasantly surprised to find out from the sign at their gate, that they also advocate against Carbon Emissions and burning plastics (toxic fumes).
I didnt know thaaaaat! lol.

So i went in and met Elvis and Samuel ... two pleasant administrators. Unfortunately, Mr. Gold was not yet in ... apparently just back from a trip abroad.Stewaret Gold is the CEO for TB.

So I took the time to explain what we were doing, and why Trashy Bags would fit in tremendously in partnership of some sort ... and also why they simply ought to be at the fair on the 17th!

We had a good conversation, and I left the letters and promised to be back the following Monday, to try and meet Stewart Gold himself.

But of course, I couldn't very well leave without feasting meself to their goodies, could i?!

So i splurged on a "pure water"sling bag, and a cutsie "tampico" wallet of refreshing greens and oranges! Then I rounded it all up with a couple of pictures, as you can very well see.

Now, at the end of each day, my only problem is that our clients don't understand why we need to close off registration early enough to plan the fair well ... some of them call and postpone payments ... got me going red and black keeping my worries locked up, you guys have!!

I will like to thank Fred Anani-Frimpong ... for interviewing me and publicising ESF's work on his dotFAF.com. Every booster helps, and I was surprised to learn from comments on the interview, that we have some silent followers on our work as well. I thank all the commentators ... and appreciate the support. We need your help to make it whole, people!

On to next stop.
Next day or two ... I'm gonna stir up trouble.
I'm gonna talk about Lighting Africa, and what I think was behind what they did ... and somebody better call the police! It's going to be smoky in here ... cus you see, I consider abrasiveness as an occupational hazard for ESF, being young females as we are; and a start-up; and an NGO.

So when it comes up, it doesn't tickle me ... but I usually like to understand which angle the abrasiveness is from, cus it might be caused by something we genuinely did wrong, which we have to stop or alter ... and if i didnt search for the cause, i could overlook this and keep on doing it.

But when i don't see the cause, and abrasiveness comes ... especially in a hostile manner ... and i keep searching and searching and still don't see the cause .... I go PI. Yes ... so i went PI on Lighting Africa ... and I am going to share what I think happened ... in as nice a way as possible (unless they declare war first). Some of the 'advice' and 'positions' they took at our meeting ... and only for me to find out ... hmmmmm!!

People, we gotta stop the division now. Stop tamping down your fellow country (wo) man! .... Now. Stop it.

And ... Halt!!!

Ghana got waste! Ghana got it good ... waste! We got the trash, y'all!
And it's the most unpleasant stink ... shish! But the government's loving it ... oooo yah!

They have to be loving it, because we dont see them doing much about it.

Not even when communities fight with the rubbish-dumpster truck-drivers and people get killed in cold blood. Not even when the people in the community block the roads leading to the landfill sites because they never authorised anybody to make that place a dumpsite, and yet the Metropolitan authorities have made it so ... by force!

The people live WITH the trash ... its like the are living on an island surrounded by millions of cubic metres of trash.The stench is so unbearable ... they have nowhere else to live ... and by right ... it is their home. They say their families are dying, getting odd coughs and respiratory problems all the time ... they killed one person just last month at Masalachi, Mallam in Accra ... no worries ... the dumptrucks kept coming!

How do I know? I live just 2 kilometres shy of the place ... and I can smell the "shizz"! I can see it, and we all suffer for it, one way or the other. It is replicated all over Ghana, and horrible diseases keep coming up!

Government hasnt said a word. The MP for the area hasn't said anything. The NGOs and Civil Societys are oddly absent on the issue.

Whatever happened to creating biogas plants? Whatever happened to the Kumasi biogas pilot plant?

Why is the government allowing precious 100s of 1000s of hectares of agricultural land in the North and Volta regions to be used to cultivate jatropha for biodiesel ... when it is toxic to humans and animals ... when we dont have enough food in Ghana ... when we are generating 18,480,000 cubic metres of waste DAILY in Ghana and 90% of it has nowhere to go!!!!!!!!!!!!Why is the government not saving us?

SO I RECEIVED MY NGO CERTIFICATION from the Registrar-Generals last week. I was elated, at the same time ... stymied.I knew that funding would come due to who I knew, and that it would be a long hard struggle ... I want to focus on the local communities drowning under the waste ... to teach them how to take the waste and turn it into treasure and sources of income ... and therby reduce the volumes coming in as well as make some money of it.

I checked online for UNEP offices in Ghana. There is none. Closest are Kenya and ... I forget. I check UNDP. We do have one here, and they do have Energy and Environment on their agenda, and they are very busy with attaining the Millenium Devt Goals ... I really have to make it a point to go there ... I put them a little lower on my list because of bureacratic issues.I checked on AREED, and they said they funded entrepreneurs ... we are not-for-profit.

They however led me to KITE, and they are also not-for-profit and cannot sponsor another NGO. They have a lot of high-falutin reports on their website on RETs, past present and future research reports - done and ongoing - since 1999/2000 -

But why dont i see this evident in our communities? Where did all the research go? We are still drowning in waste, and they are talking "biomethanation" ... and cutting carbon emissions" ....I am so sad ...
How does Energy Solutions acquire the necessary funding to assist the very people who are dying of the trash?
No sooner had i gotten certified, than I see the barriers ... and I'm gonna go through them!!

Please check out these links:

http://www.wrm.org.uy/subjects/agrofuels/Biofuel_Northern_Ghana.pdf

http://www.actionaidusa.org/news/related/food_rights/women_lose_farms_to_biofuel_production/

And you're gonna help us ...

Please help ENERGY SOLUTIONS any way you can ... material donations, human resources with knowledge in waste engineering, funding ... 50 pesewas ... 1 dollar ... 2 pounds ... 3 GH cedis ... Ghanaians in the country and out of it ... all nationalities who believe in us ... people living in neighbourhoods affected by this problem ... we have a few people helping us with little cash donations so that their communities can enjoy transformation ... please join this march!!