Trees, Water & People Fall 2011 Newsletter (Digital Edition)

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hoto By Pete Iengo

The newsleer of Trees, Water & People

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ByLacey Gaechter, Assistant Naonal Director

I got the phone call one Sunday aernoon from Alexis Bonogofsky,our partner who runs the Tribal Lands Program for the Naonal WildlifeFederaon (NWF). Her voice was ever so slightly shaky with emoon. I justwanted to let you know, she explained, that the training was amazing.

She was referring to the solar air heater installaon training that weprovided to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, thanks to a generous grant from theNWF. Henry Red Cloud, our friend and partner at the Red Cloud RenewableEnergy Centerin South Dakota, traveled to Lame Deer, Montana to teach 16Solar Warriors how to install solar air heaters on their own reservaon.

Alexis was deeply impacted by the change she witnessed in thetrainees over their two weeks with Henry. By the end, they all looked upto him so much. They wanted to help other people and help the planet likehe does. They saw a way they could be powerful and successful for theircommunity.

From Survival to Success Whats InsideFrom the Board

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Friend of the Trees

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A Cookstove Revolu

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Bricks and Mortar

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The Wealth of the Lak

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Expanding Our Reach

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Waes Plant Trees

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By Jeremy Foster, Trees, Water & People Board Member

There has been much hard won success on the Pine Ridge Reservaonmy rst visit. In 2004, Henry Red Cloudand his crew had begun installing thesolar air heaters, but they were manufactured elsewhere. Henry and his family nearby, a quiet place by a creek. A very dierent scene greeted me when I vithere this past June - a large Quonset hut had been purchased and moved the property. Powered by sun and wind, it is now home to Lakota Solar Enterp(LSE) and the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center (RCREC). A well-equipped

manufactures the redesigned solar heaters from scratch and is selling and instathem on Pine Ridge and six other reservaons. Upstairs are two dormitory rowhere tribal trainees stay while aending workshops on solar air heang, electric, wind energy, straw bale construcon, and more.

Though more than 300 trainees from many tribes have aended worksthrough RCREC, facilies are cramped. So I was pleased to be present when Hformally dedicated and blessed the site of the new Red Cloud Training Annex.new building, which will provide needed living, dining, and classroom space, hasbeen delivered and construcon has started. Much work and funding will be ne

From the Board

One of the most enthusiasc training parcipants, Landon Means, greon the reservaon in Muddy Creek. His father worked as a mechanic for the necoal strip mine, and Landon couldnt help but noce that, It looks like an enintensive way to get energy!

I think theres a beer way. There

has to be a beer way, says Landon ofcoal-red electricity. Together, Trees,Water & People, donors like you, and our

Nave American partners are creang that beer We are working with Landon and his fellow trainKale Means and Leo White Bear, to help them estaInnovave Indigenous Industries Incorporated, a Nave-owned renewable energy company. This prorepresents an excing evoluon for Trees, WatPeoples Tribal Renewable Energy Program. With

years of building an eecve and powerful traprogram, we know that the need to culvateonly technical skills but also livelihoods is crucispreading sustainable technologies to communthat need them most. Now, we look forwarproviding not only sustainable energy soluonsalso sustainable economies for our Solar Warliving on reservaons, moving them beyond surand into success.

I think theres a beer waThere has to be a beer way

From Survival to Success Connued...Photo:

n August, Trees, Water& People held a straw

ale workshop at the RedCloud Renewable EnergyCenter. Volunteers likeandon Means came to

et hands-on experiencen building the energy-cient housing.

On the Cover:

traw bale homes aren energy-ecient

nd aordable way torovide shelter. Here, Leo

White Bear works on therame of the straw baleemonstraon building athe Red Cloud Renewablenergy Center. To learn

more about the building,lease visit hp://bit.ly/KOYzp
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BySebasan Africano, Deputy Internaonal Director

TheGlobal Social Benet Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University (SCU) isa yearly fellowship program for social entrepreneurs who have innovave soluons

for the worlds most pressing problems. Now in its ninth year, the GSBI has becomea world-renowned program for developing sustainable business ventures, with thebelief that organizaons and businesses can contribute posively to society, localeconomies, and the environment. This year I was honored to be selected by GSBI torepresent the Zanmi Pye Bwa Hai Cookstove Projectcurrently being developed byTrees, Water & People (TWP) and Internaonal Lifeline Fundin Port-au-Prince, Hai.

Zanmi Pye Bwa means Friendof the Trees in Haian Creole. It is thename for the cookstove weve designedto be produced by Haians, for Haians,

creang income for metal workers,revenues for small businesses that sellthe cookstove, and a 40% savings in fuelcosts for Haian families. This translates to roughly 25% of annual household incomefor the average family dependent upon charcoal -money that was previously going up in smoke.

My days in the GSBI Program were spent inclass gaining important insight into the processof building a sustainable enterprise, led by facultyand professionals from a wide variety of elds. The

experience was intensive, thorough, and mely,as we needed the rigor of this program to ensurethat we will successfully implement our ambiousand impacul project in Hai. To see more of ourwork with the Zanmi Pye Bwa, please visit www.treeswaterpeople.org/stoves/programs/hai.

The Zanmi Pye Bwa has a 40%saving in fuel costs for Haian

families. This translates to

roughly 25% of their annualhousehold income.

Friend of the Trees

to erect it and to nish and furnish the interior, but hopefully by next year it will beready to welcome a new group of trainees.

This dramac transformaon,which is bringing hope and jobs tosome of the poorest people andplaces in America, is the result of closecollaboraon between Trees, Water

& People and Henry Red Cloud and ismade possible by hundreds of volunteers and supporters. Wont you join my wifeand me by adding your support to this very successful and important project?

This dramac transformaon

is bringing hope and jobs to

some of the poorest people and

places in America.

Photo:

The Zamni Pye Bwa ccookstove, built in H

by local metal workea collaboraon betwTrees, Water & Peopand the InternaonaLifeline Fund.

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ByClaudia Menendez, Internaonal Project Coordinator

Aer a hot and bumpy two and an half hour drive up a steep, winding we reached the community ofLa Cuchilla (The Blade), El Salvador, a referenthe mountain ridge that it sits atop. Weve come to visit Alicia Cock, a Peace CVolunteer whos been living here since August of 2009. Around the table, Alicia sh

with us a list of this years projects, including promong economic opportunfor women and the introducon of Justa cookstoves to La Cuchilla. While onfamilies live in this ny community, 65 of them now cook their meals on cleancookstoves, an accomplishment that Alicia speaks of with great joy.

The remoteness of villages like La Cuchilla can be a challenge for coordina clean cookstove project. Some supplies like wood ash and clay can be contribby the locals, but the griddles, combuson chambers, and chimneys must be supby Trees, Water & Peoples Salvadoran partner,rboles y Agua para El Pueblo. Wextra funding was needed, Alicia raised an addional $2,000 through the PCorps Partnership Fund by asking her friends and family to donate. Once the sup

arrived, she provided training to a father and son team who became the resicookstove builders (tecnicos).

Blanca Lilian Ebarr is one of those cookstove beneciaries. Shes a buyoung woman who was happily making torllas when we arrived to say hello. Wasked how she liked her new Justacookstove, she cheerfully sharedwith us all the benets and ways herlife has improved. I dont breathe insmoke anymore and I can cook rice,stew and make torllas all at once. The griddle heats up really well, cooks fast, anpots stay clean. When asked about rewood consumpon, Blanca said she noright away that she was cooking with about half of what she habitually used

said that she doesnt have to buy rewood because her husband goes uhill and prunes the trees instead.

now with this stove he less oen and hes very grafor that!

Alicia returned to the UStates in August. She hareported the 15 families, originally werent intereare now asking to be inclin the project. The familievisited said that theyll be sasee Alicia go, but will rememher fondly as they cook on much appreciated, clean economicalJusta cookstoves.

I dont breath in smoke anymorand I can cook rice, stew, and ma

torllas all at once.

A Cookstove Revoluon

Photo:

eneciaries like Blancailian Ebarr can useheplancha (griddle)n herJusta cookstoveo make torllas.he rocket elbow, an-shaped combusonhamber, allows wood

o burn up to 70%more eciently, usingess wood than aradional stove.

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By Jonathan Freedman, Trees, Water & People Supporter

Our Honduran tecnico, Victor, was keeping a fast pace as several of us assistedhim in building our rst Eco-fogon. He wanted to make a lot of progress by lunchme, but knew we were also there to learn. It was mid-morning, but in the corner ofthis room with adobe walls, the light was dimming as the sky clouded over.

Victor showed us how to mix concrete on the dirt oor by making a volcaniccalderalike cone in the middle of the mixture to pour the water into. He used asawed-o two-by-four to make sure the angles on the stove base were straight. If acinder block dipped slightly to the right, he taught us to press gently on the le sideto compact the damp mortar rather than using the level too much. Meanwhile, theSeora of the house, a single mother with three boys, was outside collecng rocksand dirt to ll the spaces in the cinder blocks.

Eco-fogones cookstoves are built withmaterials available most anywhere in Honduras

(cement, cinder blocks, bricks, dirt, rocks, and asheet metal chimney), using simple tools (trowels,shovel, and a level). But it can improve a familyslife immediately. Now, they can spend a lot lessme in the forest gathering rewood, and theybreathe cleaner air. The tree planng acvies ofTrees, Water & People (TWP) is just as important.Replanng forests restores watersheds, improvessoil, and stores clean water, making a sustainablefuture for people living on the land.

What the work tour shows best is thesimple power of the TWP programs. You roll upyour sleeves with the tecnicos and the families,talk with them, build and plant with them. You feelthe work in your hands, arms, and legs. You take muscle memory back home with you,the kind of memory that really scks. The memory of having made a contribuon,and with the cookstoves, really building with bricks and mortar.

It isnt always comfortable or easy. Part of what scks with you is what lifemight be like for poor rural Hondurans. They are very reserved people, probablya lile nervous around these trained

builders from the city, and the peoplethey bring from far away for a dayor two. Their gratude is quiet, butunmistakable.

Now it is early aernoon. The light in the room has shied. Soon, thunderwill sound. The nal touches are going on theplancha (griddle) atop the cookstove.Victor is pleased as he goes over instrucons with the Seora. Tomorrow, there aremore cookstoves to build and more trees to plant, but today has been a success.

Their gratude is quiet, butunmistakable.

Bricks and Mortar

Photo:

In August, Trees, WaPeople took 18 peopHonduras for a workIn just 10 days, the gplanted over 300 treand built 12 cookstofor beneciaries like Amador Sunig and hfather Alfredo Sunig
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In the Lakota culture, wealth is measured not by what a person has bwhat that person can give to others. It is in this spirit that Trees, Water & PeoTribal Renewable Energy Program ventures toward collaboraon with some oColorado neighbors.

The partnership began, thanks to our generous donors, with a gi from TWater & People (TWP) to the Smith* family; the gi of a solar heater. John andSmith are currently living at the Colorado Homeless Families facility in Arvada their three children. Moving from the Ukraine to the Denver area in 2009, John

been working as a carpenter. Yet, like so many Americans, Johns inccould not pay his bills, and the family soon found themselves withhome.

Luckily, the Smiths found Colorado Homeless Families (CHF). Uthe guidance ofExecuve Director Connie Zimmerman, the organiz

transions working families out of homelessness by providing twith housing and community support as well as resources for cadevelopment. The Smiths will stay in the home provided by CHF their oldest daughter nishes school and can earn a second incomthe family.

Our organizaon, explains Zimmerman, is not designedgive people a hand-out. It is really meant to move people ouhomelessness. We just give them the opportunity to get their fethe ground.

As such, no one at CHF has a free ride. Like the otherresidents, the Smiths are responsible for paying the ulies for house. Winter heang costs about $300 each month, and is a mnancial challenge. The Smiths can expect to save about $100 month with their new solar heater!

Zimmerman has no plans of stopping with just this one family; she hopouit most of the 40 residenal units on her property with solar air heaters. more impressive are her plans to incubate a renewable energy business as of CHFs career placement program. The company will start as a solar air heinstallaon business, and TWP and Lakota Solar Enterprises (LSE) will train its

employees to become skilled solar technicians.Its nice to go o reservaon for

this project, jests Henry Red Cloud, theOglala Lakota owner of LSE and TWPsprimary Tribal Program partner. Weare used to working in Nave Americancommunies where the need is great. But we have a lot in common with the pehaving a hard me here in Colorado. We have a choice to let our struggles inmake us bier or make us beer. We are all choosing the beer path.

We have a choice to let oustruggles in life make us bie

make us beer.

The Wealth of the Lakota

Photo:

Trees, Water & Peoplesolar heaters can reduce

a familys heang bills by

up to 30%. Here Lydia RedCloud, granddaughter ofHenry Red Cloud, helpso install a new solar

heater onto a ColoradoHomeless Family house.

Names have been changedo respect the privacy of theamily.
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With the tremendous success and popularityof our renewable energy training program comes theneed to expand our facility and our oerings at theRed Cloud Renewable Energy Center (RCREC).

In August, we invited Nave and non-Navepeople from all over the country to our StrawBale Construcon Workshop and volunteer trip.Parcipants came from as far away as North Carolina,and joined us from four dierent tribes OglalaLakota,Cheyenne River Sioux,Northern Cheyenne,and Shoshone Bannock. Together we built a strawbale house in a week. In the process, Henry RedCloud showed his fellow Nave Americans howto build extraordinarily ecient and sustainable

housing for less than $3,000, funded mostly through generous donaons toour Facebook Cause (hp://bit.ly/oGNJlK). This building will serve as a demonstraonof a beer way to live on reservaons, an alternave to reliance on poorly madegovernment housing.

Now, the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center is equipped with a 24 strawbale demonstraon home, which will allow us to launch our Trainers in ResidenceProgram. By construcng this building, we have created the opportunity for expertsin a wide variety of renewable energy elds to stay at the RCREC, providing trainingthat we could not otherwise oer and connecng our Nave trainees with inuenalthinkers in their elds of interest.

At the same me, we are addressing an increasing need to expand andimprove our training facilies. With a generous gi from a supporter, we havepurchased a building to serve as the Red Cloud Training Annex. When completed,the Annex will be dedicated solely to renewable energy educaon and training. Thenew building will be complete with dormitories, a commercial kitchen, a classroom,and a demonstraon room.

We are very excited to see ournew buildings coming to fruion but ourtrue excitement comes from knowing

what potenal is contained within theirwalls. The Tribal Renewable EnergyProgram operates with a vision thatthe power of nature can, and should,be used to improve the lives of NaveAmericans, and all of humankind. Nowas we expand, we hope to make bigger strides towards our goal of harnessing thepower of Mother Nature for the First Peoples of this country.

The Tribal Renewable EnergyProgram operates with a vision

that the power of nature can, andshould, be used to improve the

lives of Nave Americans, and allof humankind.

Expanding Our Reach

Photo:

The new straw baledemonstraon homeand Red Cloud TrainiAnnex will add muchneeded space to theCloud Renewable EnCenter campus. HereHenry Red Cloud (leworks with voluntee

begin construcon oAnnex.
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Forests Forever is published by Trees, Water & People. If you know someone who cares about the environment and should be addedto our mailing list, please contact us at 877-606-4TWP or email us [email protected].

Program PartnersAnanda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT), HaiInternaonal Lifeline Fund (ILF), HaiLeonel Jarqun, GuatemalaPROLEA, Nicaraguarboles Y Agua Para El Pueblo (AAP), El SalvadorHonduran Associaon for Development (AHDESA),HondurasLakota Solar Enterprises (LSE), South DakotaWildlands Restoraon Volunteers (WRV), Colorado

Consultants and InternsAprovecho Research CenterBirch Hincks, Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center Intern

Jessica Jackson, Internaonal Development InternEdmee Knight, Naonal Program InternKari Lamphier, Development InternBenny Mosiman, Tribal Development InternConnor Shank, Tribal Development InternDaniel Sidder, Internaonal Development InternTeri Tracy, SunMobile Intern

Board of DirectorsJon Becker, PresidentJim Volpa, Vice PresidentKevin Shaw, TreasurerAdele Dinsmore, SecretaryJenny Bramhall, Gerry Conway Jr., Patrick Flynn, Jeremy Foster,Kathy Cosgrove Green, Mona Newton, Garth Rogers

StaStuart Conway,Internaonal DirectorSebasan Africano,Deputy Internaonal DirectorClaudia Menendez,Internaonal Program CoordinatorRichard Fox,Naonal Director

Lacey Gaechter,Assistant Naonal DirectorDiane Vella,Finance DirectorPete Iengo,Oce & Facilies ManagerHeather Herrell,Development Director

Amanda Haggerty, Data & Mailings ManagerMegan Maiolo-Heath,Communicaons CoordinatorAnibal Benjamin Osorto, Internaonal Regional Coordinator

Trees, Water & People633 Remington Street Fort Collins, CO 80524 877-606-4TWP www.treeswaterpeople.org

ByHeather Herrell, Development Director

On October 2, 2011, nearly 200 friends and familMike Ray gathered together to celebrate his life, shmemories, and of course, eat waes. In its 11th year,Wae Feedis a labor of love hosted by Stacey Baumgand his wife, Jennifer Davey, at their Fort Collins, Color

home.

Stacey and Jennifer held the rst Wae Feed the yaer Mikes death, providing food for 45 friends family. All that they asked in return was a contribuof $1 per person. The rst year, the couple matched edonaon, and raised enough money to plant 90 trees

The WaeFeed has now

raised over $11,000 and planted

more than 11,000 trees in the Mike Ray Memorial Forest in El Salvador.Reecng on his ongoing project, Stacey muses, When I think of Mikeand forests I think of vibrancy and the many layers of life... One treeor one person is not enough to make a forest or a community but,when you have a bunch of trees or a group of people, then you havesomething special.

One tree or one person isnot enough to make a fores

or a community but, whenyou have a bunch of trees orgroup of people, then you ha

something special.

Wafes Plant Trees
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