This is an extract from the EERE Network News, a weekly e-newsletter.
The peace corps was 19.August in the United States Department of State; offers $ 1 million to fund the program on energy and climate change partnership America (ECPA) in support of the peace corps. cash helps increase rural activities, energy supplies, to mitigate the effects of climate change and support of renewable energy sources and the use of efficient energy technologies in Central and South American communities.
In accordance with the Partnership for Peace Corps volunteers are members of local communities to build infrastructure to support environmentally friendly energy sources and to educate the communities on the conservation of energy and climate change. nationals of the host country train Volunteers install, use and maintain energy efficient technologies, such as alternative fuels, biodigesters, Sun, water heaters, photovoltaic devices, the Sun and kuluttavasta furnaces and wind or mini hydroelectric power generation.To facilitate These efforts to clean energy, reduce carbon emissions and rural communities provide opportunities to private income.
This is the latest initiative ECPA, extended, since President Obama urged all Western hemisphere countries to join the history of the fifth Summit in April 2009 during the spring of DOE announced a set of. EPCA partnerships of clean energy, energy Western Hemisphere, including the launch of the energy innovation Center in Latin America and the Caribbean, to develop biomass and clean Columbia resource technologies, in cooperation with Argentina. Peace Corps activities related to the original ECPA are carried out in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Suriname. see peace corps press release, the ECPA Web site and the EERE Network News April 21-version.
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