[Sdpg] This May Be On Water - Fri.- "Sustainable World Radio Interview"

Wed Jun 24 00:56:27 PDT 2009

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>    1. *FRI JUNE 26/Sustainable World Radio Interview with Tara
>       Blasco & Lyn Hebenstreit of GRA Tanzania
>       (Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network)
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:59:33 -0700
> From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
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> Subject: [Sdpg] *FRI JUNE 26/Sustainable World Radio Interview with
> 	Tara Blasco & Lyn Hebenstreit of GRA Tanzania
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> Friday, JUNE 26, 9-10am, Sustainable World Radio
>   Interview with Tara Blasco and Lyn Hebenstreit
>   of Global Resource Alliance in Tanzania
>
> on Sustainable World Radio, KCSB 91.9 FM PST
>   also streaming live on www.kcsb.org, interviews 
> posted later on  www.sustainableworldradio.com
>
> 	Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World 
> Radio for an interview with Tara Blasco and Lyn 
> Hebenstreit of Global Resource Alliance (GRA, 
> http://globalresourcealliance.org/) working in 
> the Lake Victoria region of Tanzania with 
> natural, holistic and sustainable programs in 
> water (primary water), permaculture, AIDS orphan 
> support, education, malaria prevention, 
> micro-finance and more.
>
> Joining Jill in studio will be Wes Roe and Margie 
> Bushman of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network who 
> first connected with Lyn and Tara when organizing 
> a conference in Santa Barbara called Permaculture 
> & Sustainable Aid for the 21st Century in July 
> 2006.  Both Santa Barbara Permaculture Network 
> and Global Resource Alliance Tanzania will be 
> attending and participating in the upcoming 9th 
> International Permaculture Conference in Malawi, 
> Africa in November 2009 (www.ipc9.org).
>
>
> More Info/Resources/Websites:
>
> Global Resource Alliance (GRA)
>
> GRA is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization 
> http://globalresourcealliance.org/ dedicated to 
> bringing hope, joy and abundance to the world's 
> most impoverished regions. By sharing ideas, 
> volunteers and financial resources with local, 
> community based organizations we seek to promote 
> natural, holistic and sustainable solutions to 
> the challenges of poverty, malnutrition and 
> disease. The inspiration and leadership for our 
> work comes from the communities we serve. We 
> believe that empowering local communities to 
> address pressing social, economic and 
> environmental challenges according to their own 
> vision and their own creative potential is the 
> key to lasting solutions
>
> All GRA's programs and projects are designed and 
> implemented in collaboration with local residents 
> and organizations through a process called 
> Community Participatory Development, where all 
> residents are represented and claim a stake in 
> the positive outcome of projects.
>
>
>
>
> Lyn Hebenstreit
>   Lyn founded Global Resource Alliance (GRA) in 
> April, 2002 after being invited to work as a 
> volunteer finance and accounting consultant for 
> Foundation HELP, Tanzania - a small NGO on the 
> shores of Lake Victoria. Prior to that, he owned 
> and operated an industrial sewing machine 
> company, served as Chief Financial Officer for a 
> manufacturing firm and, for the past 15 years, 
> has served as an accounting and database 
> consultant for many small businesses and 
> non-profit organizations in Ojai, California.
>
>
> Tara Mar?a Blasco
>   Tara coordinates GRA programs related to 
> alternative health, malaria prevention, education 
> and orphans support and has been involved with 
> the organization as a volunteer since 2003 and 
> has served on the Board of Directors since 2004.
>   She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a 
> specialty in prenatal and birth psychology from 
> Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
>   Presently, Tara lives in California with her 
> husband Lyn Hebenstreit and co-directs the Ojai 
> Wisdom Center.
>
> <<<>>>
>
> Upcoming Event:
> Fundraiser
> Sunday June 28, 2009 12pm-5pm Water for Live GRA 
> Event Ojai Retreat, 106 Besant Road, Ojai, CA
>
> Global Resource Alliance is holding an event on 
> June 28th from 12-5pm at the Ojai Retreat. We'll 
> be providing a delicious complimentary lunch and 
> refreshments. We'll have live music and screen 
> two new short films about our programs in the 
> Lake Victoria Region of Tanzania. One of the 
> films is about our water project that has already 
> brought water to thousands of people who do not 
> have access to clean, safe water.  We hope you 
> can make it!
>
> We will be raising money with a silent auction 
> that features a beautiful collection of Beatrice 
> Wood pottery. We have also had several donations 
> of healing services, products and art and would 
> like to offer even more. This is where we could 
> use your help!  I've attached a donor form for 
> the silent auction in case you are so moved to 
> donate an item. Your donation is 100% tax 
> deductable and 100% of auction proceeds will go 
> to programs benefiting impoverished communities 
> in Tanzania.
> Thank you very much for your consideration to 
> donate to our auction. Please come have lunch, 
> socialize, bid and learn more about GRA's 
> natural, holistic and sustainable programs in 
> water, AIDS orphan support, education, 
> permaculture, malaria prevention, microfinance 
> and more on June 28th!
>
>
> Water Resource Development: Primary Water
>   Water is essential to overcoming hunger, poverty 
> and disease, yet worldwide, more than one billion 
> people still lack access to safe drinking water. 
> Five million people, mostly children, die each 
> year from water-borne diseases - double the 
> number of deaths caused by AIDS. Some 60% of all 
> infant mortality is linked to infectious and 
> parasitic diseases, most of them water-related.
>   In December 2003, the UN General Assembly 
> proclaimed the years 2005 - 2015 to be the 
> International Decade for Action, "Water for Life" 
> - an international drive to bring safe water and 
> basic sanitation to communities around the world. 
> The goal set by the 
> <http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/index.htm>UN 
> Millennium Project is to halve, by 2015, the 
> proportion of people without sustainable access 
> to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
>
>
> GRA has responded to the call by initiating a 
> bold and unconventional water resource 
> development project called "Maji Mengi" (Abundant 
> Water). Utilizing innovative techniques developed 
> by the late Stephan Riess, of Ojai, CA, we will 
> begin drilling boreholes and developing wells in 
> communities throughout the Mara region of 
> Tanzania suffering from severe water shortages. 
> The project's leader, Pal Pauer, is a prot?g?e of 
> Riess with over thirty years experience locating 
> and tapping the abundant, crystalline water found 
> in fractured primary rock.
>
>
> Kinesi, a village of 5,000 residents in the 
> Tarime district of Tanzania, will be the first 
> site developed beginning September, 2007. 
> Residents presently use polluted, untreated water 
> from Lake Victoria for drinking, bathing, 
> cooking, irrigation and laundry. Clean, safe 
> water will not only dramatically reduce the 
> incidence of cholera, typhoid, dysentery, 
> schistosomaisis and other parasitic infections, 
> but also demonstrate the potential of "earth 
> generated" water to enhance the quality of life 
> in communities currently without access to safe 
> sources of water.
>   More About Primary Water
>   Primary water is created within the Earth's 
> interior and travels toward the surface via 
> fissures and fractures in primary rock. It is 
> accessed by drilling directly into bedrock, often 
> at depths of just 150 to 300 feet. Also referred 
> to as new, juvenile, or earth-generated water, 
> discussions of primary water can be found in 
> modern literature, although it is not generally 
> recognized by the hydrological community. It's 
> potential to ameliorate the world's growing water 
> crisis remains largely unrealized.
>   Evidence of primary water comes from a variety 
> of sources. Natural springs, for instance, can be 
> found throughout the world that have been 
> producing thousands of gallons of pure, fresh 
> water per minute continuously since biblical 
> times. Many of these, like the Fountain of Apollo 
> in Libya and the Ain Feigh in Syria, have seeded 
> civilizations. Others, like the giant spring 
> gushing from solid granite in Kings Canyon 
> National Park, are merely wonders of nature.
>   In addition to these naturally occurring 
> springs, primary water is often encountered 
> accidentally when tunneling through rock for 
> mines, roadways or waterways - even at high 
> elevations, far above any drainage basin. The 
> famous Comstock silver mine on the Eastern slope 
> of Mt. Davidson near Nevada City, for example, 
> pumped over 5 million gallons a day out of 
> flooded mineshafts until the pumps failed and the 
> mine was closed in 1886. In the 1950's water was 
> struck tunneling through the Santa Ynez Mountains 
> in Santa Barbara that flowed at over 13 million 
> gallons a day. Construction was halted until the 
> gushing fissure could be sealed.
>   Many castles in Europe, built hundreds of years 
> ago on high rocky promontories, have wells hand 
> hewn in solid rock that have been producing 
> fresh, pure water non-stop for centuries. More 
> recently, in the past ten years, exploration 
> projects in Sudan, Somalia and the West Indies 
> islands of Trinidad and Tobago have successfully 
> tapped the abundant water locked in fractured 
> bedrock. By defying conventional hydrological 
> wisdom, an innovative engineering company was 
> able to obtain yields of up to 50 times that 
> estimated by the "experts", at a fraction of the 
> cost of other alternatives.
>   Utilizing techniques perfected over many decades 
> of experience, GRA's primary water project will 
> demonstrate practical, economical approaches to 
> locating and tapping the Earth's abundant water 
> to meet the needs of communities suffering from 
> severe water shortages.
>
>
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