This Appropedia Web page is Dedicated to creating an appropriate technology emergency response to the earthquake in Haiti by HSU students enrolled in engineering 305-Appropriate Technology - spring 2010. Students enrolled in other courses and wishing to receive class credit are also invited to participate. Bart Orlando [1]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A CALL TO ACTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are now estimated to be 1.5 million homeless earthquake refugees in Haiti[2] . Many of their essential needs can be provided for using appropriate technology: shelter, water pasteurization, cooking food, dealing with human waste, lighting, telecommunications, bathing and methods of aid cargo delivery, etc. We can design and build life sustaining appropriate technology systems and send them to the survivors! Engineering 305 students participating in this project are invited to contact Bart Orlando (bart6591@yahoo.com).


CONTRIBUTIONS

Members of the HSU administration, faculty, student body, local community and those around the world who are interested in supporting this project with contributions of a shipping container, materials, hardware, workshop equipment access, work space, storage space, shipping logistics and expert advise are encouraged to participate. Please leave your relevant information at the following link and you will be contacted.[3] email bart6591@yahoo.com

CURRENT NEWS AND ANALYSIS OF THE EARTHQUAKE CATASTROPHE IN HAITI

Wiki Haiti earthquake information page [4]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 13, 2010

Part 1 [5]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 14, 2010

Part 1 [6] Part 2 [7] Part 3 [8] Part 4 [9]

MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show January 14, 2010 [10]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 15, 2010

Part 1 [11]

Part 2 [12]

Part 3 Randall Robinson interview [13]

Tom Hartmann interviews Bill Fletcher, Commentator on History of Haitian/US/France international relations [14]

Telegraph.co.uk Jan.16, 2010 [15]

UN says 300 000 homeless after Haiti quake 2010-01-15 15:15 [16]

China View World Report: Haiti plans massive evacuation of quake-hit homeless [17]

Associated Press 01-17-2010 12:19am [18]

Daily News 11:35am 17/01/2010 Body of top UN envoy in Haiti found [19]

Mirror News U.K. 1/18/2010 25,000 dead and dying in Leogane at quakes epicenter [20]

Leogane destruction video 1/18/2010 [21]

Petit-Goave destruction video 1/18/2010 [22]

Democracy Now Aired 1/19/2010 [23]

Democracy Now Aired 1/20/2010 [24]

PHOTOS OF THE DEVASTATION

LA Times photo gallery [25]

MAPS OF HAITI AND THE CARIBBEAN

Haiti Earthquake damage map [26]


Wikipedia Detailed Road Map Link [27]


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CHECK THE TIME AND WEATHER FORECAST IN HAITI NOW

Time and weather in Haiti now [28]

GENERAL INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT HAITI

WIKIPEDIA GENERAL INFO PAGE FOR HAITI[29]

Haiti Just Before The Earthquake - Short Video [30]

Wikipedia historical time line for Haiti [31]

French and Haitian-Creole are the two official languages and here is a link to an English/French translation page. [32]

Petit-Goave wiki [33]

Leogane wiki [34]

Carrefour wiki [35]

NON GOVERNMENT RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS ASSISTING IN HAITI

United Nations [36]

UNICEF [37] [38]

Red Cross [39]

World Food Program [40]

Engineers Without Boarders [41]

Doctors Without Boarders [42]

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)[43]

World Vision [44]

DHL Shipping [45]

The San Damiano Foundation [46]

INSPIRING VISIONS OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY'S EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO DISASTER (RISE UP!)

RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF A SOLAR POWERED AIRSHIP ARMADA RESCUE

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SOLAR POWERED AIRSHIP ARMADAS WOULD NOT REQUIRE REFUELING, SHIPPING PORTS, AIRPORTS OR ROADS! IN HAITI, THE PORT IS IN RUINS, THE ROADS ARE DAMAGED, CLOGGED WITH RUBLE, DEAD BODIES AND REFUGEES. THE AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER HAS BEEN DESTROYED. THE AIRPORT IS TOO SMALL AND ILL EQUIPPED TO LAND AND UNLOAD LARGE MILITARY TRANSPORT PLANES RAPIDLY. THE FIRST RESCUE JET TO ARRIVE FLEW ALL THE WAY FROM CHINA(!) AND TOOK 6 HOURS TO UNLOAD BY HAND. THE US MILITARY ARRIVED, SEIZED CONTROL OF THE AIRPORT, GAVE LANDING PRIORITY TO FLIGHTS CARRYING US WEAPONS AND 11,000 SOLDIERS WHILE TURNING AWAY MOST INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS CARRYING FOOD, WATER, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND MOBILE HOSPITALS... FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK! THE BULK OF THE RELIEF SUPPLIES THAT DID REACH THE AIRPORT AT PORT-AU-PRINCE WERE UNLOADED STACKED NEAR THE RUNWAY AND HAD NOT REACHED THE HAITIAN PEOPLE AS OF 1/18/2010. ON 1/19, THE ORDER FORBIDDING PARACHUTE DROPS OF AID WAS RESCINDED AND LIMITED AIR DROPS HAVE BEGUN. ALMOST NO AID HAS REACHED THE SURROUNDING CITIES. FOR ONE WEEK THE SURVIVORS HAVE WAITED. THE DELAY OF MEDIAL ASSISTANCE HAS CAUSED AMPUTATIONS OF INFECTED ARMS AND LEGS, SOMETIMES WITHOUT ANESTHETIC AND IS COSTING AN ESTIMATED 20,00 ADDITIONAL LIVES PER DAY. THE INITIAL DELAY OF AID FROM REACHING SURVIVORS IS THE NORM WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORLDS RESPONSE TO MAJOR DISASTERS. THEREFORE, THE WORLD NEEDS AN INTERNATIONAL RAPID DEPLOYMENT RESCUE "FORCE" ABLE TO LAUNCH A MISSION WITHIN HOURS OF A DISASTER WITHIN EVERY REGION ON EARTH. A RAPID DEPLOYMENT RESCUE AIRSHIP FLEET STATIONED IN FLORIDA ALONG WITH PRELOADED AIR DROP CARGO PLANES [47][48] COULD REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS WITH DOCTORS, MEDICINE AND RELIEF SUPPLIES IN LESS THAN ONE DAY!

An inspiring vision and probably beyond the range of this semester's project. Yet, it is best to take a bearing on the horizon when charting a project's course. Though smaller in scale, our project can still prove to be very important to the individuals who will receive it and a shining example for others to follow in the future. The blimps above are of the type used by the US Navy fleet back in the 1950's[49]. Future next generation cargo airships are planned to be much larger, more aerodynamic, capable of carrying as much aid as a small freighter and yet able to reach even remote villages at speeds approaching 200 mph (174 knots). (A special note: Please email a link for this web page to the United Nations High Commission For Refugees Goodwill Ambassador - Angelina Jolie [50] who once portrayed the commander of a retro-futuristic airship armada in the movie Sky Captain. [51]) And now for something more...down to Earth.


PARABOLIC SOLAR COOKERS AND PASTEURIZERS MADE USING SALVAGED ITEMS

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Basket Solar Cooker [52]

Stadium Light Solar Cooker [53] Please Email this link to the Premier Soccer Player and World Food Program Spokesman ... Ronaldo [54][55] and to 2008, FIFA World Soccer Player of the Year and W.F.P. ambassador...Kaka[56]

Satellite Dish Solar Cooker [57]

PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED IN OR FOR HAITI

Waste to Product

Water purification

Organizations

Cooking

Farming

Equipment

Related pages




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