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SELF project: Myeka High
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To encourage each reader to become an agent against global warming, we are
again issuing a challenge. For each person who reads these three primers and
commits to pursue them, we will make a $100 donation in his or her name to the
Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF). SELF is a truly worthy non-profit organization
that
simultaneously fights global poverty and climate change. SELF’s primary
mission is
to install local solar electric power generators in rural third-world areas.
In many
instances, SELF’s installations are directed to education, health and irrigation
facilities and can include joint ventures, where local participants invest in
a portion
of the project. Providing solar electric power to remote, off-grid people frees
them
from the unpalatable alternatives of either using kerosene-generated power (which
is both bodily and environmental dangerous) or living with no electricity, no
lights,
no irrigation possibilities, and no connection to the outside world. |
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As with last year’s
challenge, to accept the challenge below, you only need to
send us an email. Tell us you will commit
yourself (on the honor
system) to move forward toward more climate-friendly living
and that you’ll try
to complete the
steps below. The $100 contributions to SELF
will be limited to the first 1,000 responders. |
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Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs)
1. Read the primer and commit to converting 25% of the
light bulbs in your house or apartment to CFLs.
2. Pass the link to the CFL Primer along to one other person,
who you think could make a difference. |
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Tankless Water Heaters (TWHs)
1. Read the primer and commit
to seriously considering a conversion to TWH when your
present
water heater wears out.
2. Pass the link to the TWH Primer along to somebody who
uses a lot of hot water or has a
second/vacation home. |
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Reduce Idling
1. Read the Anti-Idling
Primer and commit to view climate
security as a worthy beneficiary when
we reduce our comfort-
or habit-driven idling.
2. Pass the link to reduce idling along to somebody whose
reduced idling you think could make
a big difference. |
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Once you read the
three primers, if you agree to commit yourself to taking
these three initial, though not lifestyle-
changing actions,
then send a confirming email to purewaste@thehcf.org
with your name and e-mail address
where you'd like the
acknowledgement sent, and the Hinkle Charitable Foundation
will make a grant to SELF
on your behalf. – Hal
Hinkle |
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