Mayan Power and Light catalyzes local, green economies by empowering community leaders with entrepreneurship training and energy saving technologies for social and environmental regeneration. Since 2013, we have installed solar on over 21 community buildings reaching 36,800 people, we trained 150 w
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The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation has joined forces with Casa Guatemala to plant fruit trees for vulnerable low-income children and their families along Rio Dulce. Casa Guatemala serves children from families of the surrounding Mayan villages who live in cases of extreme poverty and in areas where
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In 2022, EcoLogic plans to build and install 400 fuel-efficient stoves in Guatemala to replace the traditional cookstoves used in family homes. Traditional cooking methods require a significant amount of fuel, leading to firewood extraction from vital forests. dangerous to human health due to their
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EcoLogic works with local communities to protect the community forests of Sarstun, Huehuetenango, Ixcan, and Totonicapan, Guatemala, through community restoration, monitoring patrols, and education for sound forest management practices. Through this project EcoLogic is helping conserve and restore f
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This project will provide funding to at least 5 fishing communities along the Mesoamerican Reef coast in order to encourage community participation in the management of local fish stocks.
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Many communities that live along the Mesoamerican coast are dependent on nearby fish stock
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Imagine! You can empower our community-based clean cookstove project in Guatemala's Lake Atitlan basin. With your help, we can provide 250 families with an energy-efficient, clean cookstove that will lower the rates of burns and respiratory diseases, improve family finances, and heavily reduce defor
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EcoLogic aims to support rural Guatemalan farmers with the development and expansion of beekeeping and honey production that benefits both their families and the environment. Beekeeping can also help build sustainable, resilient livelihoods. By providing supplies and technical assistance we are impr
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We empower local people in Central America to build life-saving, fuel-efficient cookstoves for families who would otherwise be cooking over dangerous, smoky, open fires. Each of these locally-sourced cook stoves reduces fuel use by 50% and protects an average family of eight people from the dangers
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We are thrilled to announce that we are embarking on a new and exciting project designed to take action on fecal pollution which is threatening the very existence of Lake Atitlan, the availability of pure drinking water for all of us living around the lake and the future of Lake Atitlan as a tourist
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The average American is responsible for about 18 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. You can offset 2 tons of your carbon emissions by helping The Appropriate Technology Collaborative provide solar lighting to families that currently light their homes with candles and kerosene lamps. Our pr
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