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 willing to extend class credit are also invited to participate. Please consult with your instructor. Bart Orlando [1]


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


Many of the essential needs of the earthquake survivors in Haiti can be provided for using appropriate technology: geodesic storm-shelter domes, alternative tent shelters, alternative tensile shade structures, drinking water solar thermal pasteurization units, solar cookers, anerobic digester bags for converting human waste to methane fuel, solar charged night lighting, solar electric telecommunications, solar shower units, human powered-power tools and alternative methods of aid cargo delivery. Appropriate Technology can make a difference in the lives of those it touches. This is our opportunity to show the world what could be done! Students seeking to participate in this project are invited to contact Bart Orlando (bart6591@yahoo.com). (or Lonny Grafman - HSU Dept. of Engineering - Arcata, Ca)


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 a message at the following link [2] or email Bart Orlando bart6591@yahoo.com

Earthquake Information Updates And Recap

There are now 230,000 confirmed fatalities from the earthquake of January 12th as the death toll continues to rise. There are now estimated to be 1 million homeless Haitian earthquake refugees living in makeshift camps [3]. 400,000 have evacuated from Port-Au-Prince to Jeremie[4][5]and to more permanent refugee camps located near villages in the north of Haiti. The President of Haiti has made an urgent plea for tent shelters. To recap, by U.N. order, as of 1/21 no assistance had been sent to Leogane, the city closest to the epicenter of the quake and where 10,000 are believed to be entombed in ruins. A contingent of British and Canadian search and rescue teams (Rapid-UK) finally arrived there almost two weeks after the quake. Other cities surrounding the epicenter have received little or no rescue assistance. Hospitals continue to report dire shortages of medical supplies including: antibiotics, surgical anesthetics, painkillers and first aid supplies. A hospital in Jacmel says it is treating around 500 patients a day, many of them receiving medical attention for the first time as of 1/28. U.S. doctors in Haiti report that on 1/27 medical evacuation flights of Haitians requiring life saving surgery in Florida Hospitals have been halted because of logistical problems and disagreement over who shall pay their medical bills. The U.S. resumed medical evacuation flights on 2/1 and two clinics have been opened, one in Atlanta and one in Tampa to treat Haitians in need of emergency surgery. Limited food distribution sites are overwhelmed by mass crowds of starving Haitians.



CURRENT NEWS AND ANALYSIS OF THE EARTHQUAKE CATASTROPHE IN HAITI

Wiki Haiti earthquake information page [6]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 13, 2010

Part 1 [7]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 14, 2010

Part 1 [8] Part 2 [9] Part 3 [10] Part 4 [11]

MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show January 14, 2010 [12]

Democracy Now Aired Jan. 15, 2010

Part 1 [13]

Part 2 [14]

Part 3 Randall Robinson interview [15]

Tom Hartmann interviews Bill Fletcher, Commentator on History of Haitian/US/France international relations [16]

Telegraph.co.uk Jan.16, 2010 [17]

UN says 300 000 homeless after Haiti quake 2010-01-15 15:15 [18]

China View World Report: Haiti plans massive evacuation of quake-hit homeless [19]

Associated Press 01-17-2010 12:19am [20]

Daily News 11:35am 17/01/2010 Body of top UN envoy in Haiti found [21]

Mirror News U.K. 1/18/2010 25,000 dead and dying in Leogane at quakes epicenter [22]

Leogane destruction video 1/18/2010 [23]

Petit-Goave destruction video 1/18/2010 [24]

Democracy Now Aired 1/19/2010 [25]

Democracy Now Aired 1/20/2010 [26]

Democracy Now Aired 1/21/2010 [27]

Democracy Now Aired 1/22/2010 [28]

NY-TIMES Photo essay of limited food distribution sites overwhelmed 1/26 [29]

Democracy Now - Aired 1/10/2010 [30] [31] [32]

PHOTOS OF THE DEVASTATION

LA Times photo gallery [33]

MAPS OF HAITI AND THE CARIBBEAN

Haiti Earthquake damage map [34]

Wikipedia Detailed Road Map Link [35]

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CHECK THE TIME AND WEATHER FORECAST IN HAITI NOW

Time and weather in Haiti now [36]

BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT HAITI

  • WIKIPEDIA GENERAL INFO PAGE FOR HAITI[37]
  • Haiti Just Before The Earthquake - Short Video [38]
  • Wikipedia historical time line for Haiti [39]
  • Haiti's Ongoing Economic-Food Crises 1986-2009 [40]
  • Haiti Historical Analysis [41]
  • French and Haitian-Creole are the two official languages and here is a link to an English/French translation page. [42]
  • A travel guide's description of the climate in Haiti [43]
  • Home video tour of Port-Au-Prince 3 months before earthquake [44]
  • Petit-Goave wiki [45]
  • Gressier: Close to epicenter, 50% of structures destroyed - video [gressier]
  • Port-Au-Prince [50] , tent city video [51]

NON GOVERNMENT RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS ASSISTING IN HAITI

  • World Food Program [56]
  • Engineers Without Boarders [57]
  • Doctors Without Boarders [58]
  • Partners In Health [59]
  • The Lamp Of Haiti [60]
  • Aid For Artisans [61]
  • Shelter Haiti Project [62]
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)[63]
  • The San Damiano Foundation [66]

FIRST STEPS

  • Begin discussion of our projects design.
  • Consider building a storm resistant 16' diameter geodesic dome shelter [69][70]
  • Consider consulting/networking with A.T. NGOs already working in Haiti
  • Consider focusing on alternative tent shelter and shade designs
  • Consider using a shipping container(s) for A.T. cargo and shelter(s)
  • Consider securing a donation of a shipping container(s).
  • Consider securing reservations for free shipping of the container(s) to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti via Florida
  • Consider securing space within a container already being sent.
  • Consider an A.T. parachute drop and how it might affect project parameters.
  • Considering a charter airship Caribbean tour service willing to ferry doctors to remote earthquake stricken areas in Haiti.[71][72]

PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED IN OR FOR HAITI

Waste to Product

Water purification

Organizations

Cooking

Farming

Equipment

Shelter

  • Shipping containers converted into homes and schools [74] [75]

Composting Toilets

  • Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) [76][77]

PARABOLIC SOLAR COOKERS AND PASTEURIZERS MADE USING SALVAGED ITEMS BY HSU STUDENTS

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Basket Solar Cooker [78]

Stadium Light Solar Cooker [79] Please Email this link to the Premier Soccer Player and World Food Program Spokesman ... Ronaldo [80][81] and to 2008, FIFA World Soccer Player of the Year and W.F.P. ambassador...Kaka[82]

Satellite Dish Solar Cooker [83]

Related pages


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, ROADS, SHIPPING PORTS, AIRPORTS OR PERMISSION IN ORDER TO DELIVER AID! IN HAITI, THE PORT, INITIALLY IN RUINS, HAS BEEN RESTORED TO 10% CARGO RECEIVING CAPACITY. THE ROADS ARE DAMAGED, CLOGGED WITH RUBLE, DEAD BODIES AND REFUGEES. THE AIRPORT CONTROL TOWER WAS DESTROYED . THE AIRPORT IS TOO SMALL AND ILL EQUIPPED TO LAND AND UNLOAD LARGE TRANSPORT PLANES RAPIDLY.[84] THE FIRST RESCUERS TO ARRIVE WERE AN ICELANDIC SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM 24 HOURS AFTER THE QUAKE. THEN, A JET ARRIVED FROM CHINA CARRYING MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND SUPPLIES WHICH TOOK 6 HOURS TO UNLOAD BY HAND. THE US MILITARY ARRIVED AND TOOK CONTROL OF THE AIRPORT ON 1/14 AND FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK, GAVE LANDING PRIORITY TO FLIGHTS CARRYING US WEAPONS AND THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS WHILE TURNING AWAY MANY INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS CARRYING FOOD, WATER, MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND MOBILE HOSPITALS. DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS REPORTS THAT 10 OF ITS FLIGHTS CARRYING 85 TONS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES HAVE BEEN DIVERTED TO OTHER COUNTRIES. THE BULK OF THE RELIEF SUPPLIES THAT DID MANAGE TO REACH THE AIRPORT AT PORT-AU-PRINCE WERE UNLOADED, STACKED NEAR THE RUNWAY AND HAD NOT REACHED THE HAITIAN PEOPLE AS OF 1/20/2010. ON 1/19, THE ORDER FORBIDDING PARACHUTE DROPS[85] OF AID WAS RESCINDED AND LIMITED AIRDROPS BEGAN [86]. ALMOST NO AID HAS REACHED THE SURROUNDING CITIES. THE PEOPLE OF IN CITY LEOGANE, LOCATED AT THE EPICENTER OF THE QUAKE NOW ASK REPORTERS WHY THEY HAVE BEEN FORSAKEN BY THE REST OF THE WORLD. FOR WEEKS THE SURVIVORS WAITED. THIS DELAY OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE HAS NECESSITATED AMPUTATIONS OF INFECTED ARMS AND LEGS, OFTEN WITHOUT ANESTHETIC AND WHICH ARE BEING PERFORMED IN SOME CASES BY DOCTORS FORCED TO USE HACKSAWS LOOTED FROM DEMOLISHED HARDWARE STORES. THE NUMBER OF AMPUTATIONS IS ESTIMATED TO APPROACH THAT OF THE U.S. CIVIL WAR. [87] IN ADDITION, DELAYED SURGERIES ARE COSTING AN ESTIMATED 20,000 LIVES PER DAY. [88] THE HOSPITAL SHIP USNS COMFORT ARRIVED AT PORT-AU-PRINCE ON 1/20. [89]

THE INITIAL DELAY OF AID FROM REACHING SURVIVORS IS THE NORM WHEN IT COMES TO THE WORLDS RESPONSE TO MAJOR DISASTERS. PERHAPS THE WORLD NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT RAPID DEPLOYMENT RESCUE "FORCE" ABLE TO LAUNCH A MISSION WITHIN HOURS OF A DISASTER, FROM WITHIN EVERY REGION ON EARTH. A RAPID DEPLOYMENT RESCUE AIRSHIP FLEET STATIONED IN FLORIDA ALONG WITH PRELOADED AIR DROP CARGO PLANES [90][91] COULD REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS WITH DOCTORS, MEDICINE AND RELIEF SUPPLIES IN LESS THAN ONE DAY! [92]

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[93] [94]. 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). [95][96] The photovoltaic envelope of a lenticular airship could provide both electric power and an overhead shelter from rain or shade from intense sun. [97].

(A special note: Please email a link for this web page to the United Nations High Commission For Refugees Goodwill Ambassador - Angelina Jolie [98] who once portrayed the commander of an alternative 1939 retro-futuristic airship armada in the movie Sky Captain [99]) and to the movie's director, Kerry Conran [100]


Now let's get down to Earth. Bart




MORE TO COME!

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