{"id":154,"date":"2011-03-05T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=154"},"modified":"2011-03-05T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:07:51","slug":"the-solar-women-of-totogalpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2011\/03\/05\/the-solar-women-of-totogalpa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Women of Totogalpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the sixth in <a href=\"..\/2011\/01\/09\/renewable-energy-projects-in-nicaragua-3\/\">a series<\/a> of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SolarWomen.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156\" title=\"Some of the Solar Women with their children\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SolarWomen-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SolarWomen-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SolarWomen.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the Solar Women with their children<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2011\/02\/28\/is-renewable-energy-practical\/\">last post<\/a>, I described helping to provide power for a &#8220;solar restaurant.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The Solar Women of Totogalpa have decided to open a restaurant which will be completely run on solar energy, will use solar ovens and will sell food that they grow and produce on-site. They have already begun an organic vegetable garden to supply the restaurant with ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 This latest business venture could provide the women with added income to spend on their families for things such as education as well as to further invest in their community.<\/p>\n<p>This group, Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, was recently featured on Channel 2 news in Nicaragua.\u00c2\u00a0 If you speak Spanish, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canal2.com.ni\/verarticulos.php?idArticulo=5895\\&amp;idArticulo1=Las%20Mujeres%20Solares%20de%20Totogalpa&amp;idArticulo2=20%20de%20Enero,%202011\" target=\"_blank\">please take a look at the exciting coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other posts in this series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"..\/2011\/02\/28\/2011\/01\/15\/2011\/01\/09\/renewable-energy-projects-in-nicaragua-3\/\">Renewable Energy Projects in Nicaragua<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"..\/2011\/02\/28\/2011\/01\/13\/the-problem-cooking-with-firewood\/\">The problem: cooking with firewood<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"..\/2011\/02\/28\/2011\/01\/15\/the-solution-solar-ovens\/\">The solution: solar ovens<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"..\/2011\/02\/28\/2011\/01\/23\/re-seeding-the-forest\/\">Re-seeding the Forest<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2011\/02\/28\/is-renewable-energy-practical\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is renewable energy practical?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;solar restaurant.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The Solar Women of Totogalpa have decided to open a restaurant which will be completely run on solar energy, will use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[12,24,14,15,13,17,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}