[Santa_Cruz_Permaculture] *FRI JUNE 26/Sustainable World Radio Interview with Tara Blasco & Lyn Hebenstreit of GRA Tanzania

Tue Jun 23 20:13:06 PDT 2009

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 María 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.

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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 protégée 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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