Thursday

FoST-Nepal wins the Shell BBC Challenge 2007


Goals and brief introduction:

The country of Nepal is facing an environmental crisis with wide-spread deforestation, excessive pollution, inadequate mobilization of natural resources, lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and a heavy dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuels.

The Foundation for Sustainable Technologies (FoST) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization creating awareness to counter these trends by providing low-cost, low-tech, easily adaptable, locally-built sustainable technologies and education to improve the quality of life of the rural people.


Here's the link to the video and several others at http://www.fost-nepal.org/:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8265929164207306024
http://www.gorpproductions.com/fostvideo.html

Did you know, FoST-Nepal secured $10,000 as the seconds runner-up?