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Activities
Technology Innovation
The Foundation has direct experience with development and application
of a variety of technologies including: solar heating systems,
rural and village water supply, wind energy, rural transportation,
and low cost housing.
Our current work is to develop a micro-enterprise-based
briquetting technology, which
converts non-productive agricultural residues, yard wastes and
junk mail into economic and environmentally sound heating and
cooking fuel for families and communities in developing countries
and the USA.
In developing nations, the briquettes are sold in the open market
as a less expensive
alternative to fuelwood. Briquette projects provide
employment, especially to women,
while saving the environment.
In the USA, the emphasis is on research and development of a
technology for families and community to turn their junk mail
into a useable fuel including the development of a compact,
efficient briquette making machine. The Legacy Foundation is
also testing emissions from the briquettes to ensure environmental
compliance.
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Media / Communication
1. Videos
In order to create mass awareness
for environmental problems and demonstrate
solutions, we rely heavily on
media promotion through videos, multimedia and the internet.
We believe that only when people are fully aware of the scope
of a problem, are they able to participate in creating solutions.
Legacy partners with Goat Tea Productions, a multi- faceted
production facility, to provide videos and new media projects.
The principals of Goat Tea and Legacy have created over 15 environmental
and community awareness videos for such clients as the United
Nations, Red Cross, USAID and the European Union. Visit Goat
Tea Productions for a complete list of credits and services.
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2. Information Training
Centers
There is little doubt about the widening gap between rich and
poor, about the increasingly crowded cities and the abandoned
rural villages in the third world. At the same time there is
a growing presence of telecommunications resources, including
cel phones, internet and fiber optic networks. In taking advantage
of these events, Legacy has embarked upon an ambitious and unique
development program designed to give a self-sustaining
voice to the rural areas.
The process starts with combining tailored database software
with conventional email, backstopped by radio modems and cellular
phone technology. Then, under the direction of a locally trained
three person communications team, the needs and resources of
the rural poor can be organized more efficiently and cost effectively
and allow them to better communicate with each other.
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The Information Training
Centers will provide:
- Market information
to the farmer, enabling them to optimize their pricing,
wholesale purchasing and transportation to the market.
- Affordable technical
assistance and training at cost to groups of interested
rural citizens on a scheduled basis.
- Effective and accountable access for
humanitarian and emergency relief.
It is through such a program that
Legacy Foundation encourages a reverse migration to rural areas
which is not subsidized but rather driven by market and natural
social forces. The goal is to see population and resources better
balanced and the quality of life improved in the new global
village economy.
Legacy Foundation believes such centers can be sustained on
a franchised basis, once initially capitalized and operated
for 12 months.
Consulting / Management
Legacy Foundation principals are regularly requested to provide
assistance
in technology innovation, training, participatory development,
planning, program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
They have worked with the United Nations Development Program,
The Swedish International Development Authority, the United
Nations Capital Development Fund, the United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation, USAID, the World Health Organisation,
Plan International, CARE, the European Union, the Red Cross
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