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09/04/2007 - 21:19
Basil
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Check this guy out- talk about making something with nothing. He had to stop school as a teen because his family couldn't pay the fees, so he started building windmills out of things he found and it led him to the internet, donations for school, and a new life!

Check the archives in june and july for windmill info-

http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/

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09/04/2007 - 21:55
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More cool homemade items in Africa

http://www.afrigadget.com/ has a lot of interesting homemade (but very functional) items in Africa. 

Homemade: welder, bicycle driven knife sharpener, mill, folding metal house, etc.



09/04/2007 - 23:46
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Yes sir. When you're at

Yes sir. When you're at the bottom and have nothing to loose, some of the greatest things can happen to those that go at it that way.

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Rod Reidnauer
Class of Apr. 9-10, 2005
Status: GOT LAND! Prepping for driveway and septic
Thinking outside the vinyl sided box
My log model



09/09/2007 - 06:05
GT.
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water well drilling

http://waterforallinternational.org/videos.aspx



09/10/2007 - 14:27
Basil
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30,000 milers

thats what they call flip-flops made with grass string and the tread from used up tires. Cut the tread into the shape of your foot, punch a hole, tie some string. You got a 30,000 miler.

I spent a few months in africa back in '97 and saw all kinds of AMAZING things that remind me of how good we have it, and how necessity truly is the mother of invention.