Program

Sustainable Resources initiated new projects and collaborations

Boulder Biodiesel and Gaviotas
The Boulder and CU biodiesel programs met Paolo Lugari from Gaviotas, Colombia during the SR3 conference. As a result, a team traveled to Colombia and established a biodiesel plant. The biodiesel will be used to transport bottled water from Gaviotas to Bogota. The water is a result of a regenerated rain forest, produced and bottled with only renewable energy sources. All of the revenue from the water sales go toward creating more rain forest and a resulting aquifer increase.

Reggie Sawyer, Ghana
Reggie met several new partners and funding sources that will launch projects to install solar street lights. "You have recharged my battery, and I'm now full of strength and ideas to keep our company going for a long time. After talks, a Ghanaian in New York is willing to invest $100,000 in Highcrest! We have agreed to start operations with the Streetlight Project. Once again, THANK YOU so much!" - Reggie Sawyer, Ghana

Henry Okiria, Uganda
Sponsored by ACT, Henry attended SR3 and told his story of Ugandan villages burned, civilians killed, 80,000 refugees, thousands of children kidnapped and brainwashed. During the conference he met drip irrigation specialist Henry Chapin and now there are over 1000 drip systems in his area replacing food stolen by the rebel army. People who heard Henry's story donated over $10,000 that was used to buy food, blankets, medicine. He also found hand grain grinding equipment that in effect doubled the relief food supplies. Updates on Henry.

Brus Westby, principal of a local high school (September School) met Isa Roske at a Gen 7 presentation and invited her to present at his school, which she did. As a result, many of his students participated in a Youth Leadership event, which featured Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a speaker, and then a march of 500 youth to Boulder High School to create a human picture of a scale with a $ sign outweighed by the world. It was featured in the Daily Camera newspaper and created a nationwide impact.

Potters for Peace, Nicaragua
"Since the last conference we have been in dialog with 5 organizations we met at the conference and we will be carrying out international work with 3 of them and another person came to Nicaragua. Thank you for your help in everything." - Ron Rivera

Waylon Lewis from Elephant Magazine met Satish Kumar from Resurgence and they agreed to collaborate and work together. Per Waylon, "SR4 was Valhalla! Based on new conference-created connections, we've changed our plan to take Elephant national from two years down the road to starting right now and increase our circulation this year from 44,000 to 100,000."

Vinod and Kamala Parkeh from Village Earth and Bunker Roy from The Barefoot College met and decided to collaborate on some rainwater catchment systems in India

Riane Eisler from The Center for Partnership Studies met representatives from local peace groups and made plans to start a local chapter of her organization, Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence

Todd Pesek from Naturaleza met people from several other countries in Central America and extended his Rainforest protection and reconnection efforts into 3 new countries

Jack DeBell from CU recycling used the conference as leverage to start CU’s first composting effort

Santosh Dhakal from Nepal met Richard Stanley from Uganda and agreed to work on a briquetting project. He also me Richard Komp and planned a small photovoltaic manufacturing project.

John Todd from Ocean Arks International and Paul Stamets from Fungi Perfecti met and decided to work together more closely

Robert Manning met Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, invited him to be the first member and launched the “Religious Peacemakers’ Circle”

Bill McDonough met John Bernardo from Albertson’s and started a working relationship. He also met Dr. Olivia la O’ Castillo from the UN and APRSCP who invited him to speak at a conference next year in the Philippines

Richard Stanley from the Legacy Foundation met someone who agreed to help him with fund-raising projects.

Film maker Chuck Davis met several people during the conference and will include them in his new documentary, "Transforming Energy".

During SR4, Tamdin Wangdu from the Tibetan Village Project met Susan Still-Brewer from the Taos Artists for the Earth Medicine Art Gallery. Susan's now organizing a display of the art Tamdin's bringing in from Tibet as fund-raising project for the remote villagers he helps.

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