Green Options » empowered women http://greenoptions.com/tag/empowered-women Posts tagged 'empowered women' Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:23:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Empowered Women Get Biogas from Manure http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/11/empowered-women-get-biogas-from-manure/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/11/empowered-women-get-biogas-from-manure/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:23:18 +0000 Gavin Hudson http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/11/empowered-women-get-biogas-from-manure/ BiogasEditor’s note: The Santa Fe Women’s Group in Costa Rica is empowering themselves by making biogas from manure. Written by guest author Thomas Carmona.

As if cooking, cleaning, and child-rearing were not enough, the women of Santa Fe also lead a powerful organization, the Santa Fe Women’s Group, which fulfills many vital roles for the community. One of the group’s biggest projects has been producing biogas.

The Project

The Santa Fe Biogas project, in its initial stages, was simply a concern communicated in Women’s Group meetings: “How can we avoid buying expensive tanks of gas and inhaling smoke in the kitchen?”

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