Micro Enterprise Solar Harvest

Mission
  • Inform the general public about green solutions to poverty
  • Provide low cost solar products to low income families to help them reduce their energy bills
  • Provide the means for working poor to become eco-business owners.
  • Provide sustainable energy to meet the energy needs of these eco-businesses.
Organization Type Non-Governmental Organization

Contact Information

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Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work:

serving the working poor in Long Beach California and the very poor in Riverside and Imperial counties in California community projects.

Fuels/Technologies: Solar
 Sectors of Experience: Education
Energy
Environment
Financial/Banking
Renewable Energy
Small Business
Water

Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas

Social/Cultural barriers to using traditional fuels and stoves:

getting Americans to take small scale solar seriously and getting them to use solar cookers is extreamly difficult because they are seen as 3 world tools.

Market development for improved cooking technologies:

We use two solar cookers exclusively because their design is most "American" in appearance. The Tulsi solar cooker and the SOS sport, I do demos at grocery stores and outdoor festivals or farmers markets and of course we supply them to our clients (micro enterprise) We also promote them on the web.

Technology standardization for cooking, heating and ventilation:

We are using the tulsi and SOS sport exclusively

Indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring:

I do demos at grocery stores and outdoor festivals or farmers markets and of course we supply them to our clients (micro enterprise) We also promote them on the web."

Relevant Publications or Studies

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Our Contribution to the Partnership

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