The Solar Women of Totogalpa

This is the sixth in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. In my last post, I described helping to provide power for a “solar restaurant.”  The Solar Women of Totogalpa have decided to open a restaurant which will be completely run on solar energy, will use […]

Is renewable energy practical?

This is the fifth in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. I went to Nicaragua to learn about renewable energy, both how it works and what the challenges and successes are in low and middle-income countries. I’m not going to write about who should use renewable […]

The solution: solar ovens

This is the third in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. You can imagine that I was pretty excited to learn how to make a solar oven. What’s a solar oven? There are many ways to make a solar oven (also sometimes called a solar cooker), […]

The problem: cooking with firewood

This is the second in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. I decided to start with firewood, since after living with a local family and breathing in those toxic fumes, this issue is near and dear to my heart (and my lungs!). In Nicaragua, as in […]

Renewable Energy Projects in Nicaragua

This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. I just got back from three weeks in Nicaragua, and so Aaron has asked me to write some guest posts about the application of renewable energy and appropriate health technologies that are helping the rural […]

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