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...kind of place you would expect to find subsistence farmers surfing the Web with wi-fi computers or making VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing--thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit...
...they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations--some bolted to trees--fan out for up to four miles and connect a network of PCs. Total cost, including solar panels and relay stations...
...only has Plans A and B for emergency communications but also Plans C, D, E and F. He has moved the backup generators to higher ground; installed a wi-fi system downtown and backed up "hot spots" like city hall, emergency operations and the police command center with solar chargers; brought in wi-fi-compliant phones that allow emergency management to text message as well as make calls; and wrangled four vans with satellite uplinks in the event all else fails. Finally, he got what he jokingly refers to as "footballs," suitcases like the one that contains the President...
...Broadmoor, Alicia Hansen is feeling pretty satisfied that she took $30,000 in flood-insurance money and raised her house. She has taken all the funds Red Cross offered and plans to use a tax credit on her new solar paneling. Neighbors now want to raise their houses too but find prices for the job have skyrocketed 50% in the past few months. Hansen added another story as she repaired the house. "And below, it's all patio--party city," she says...
...Libertarians are not too often disposed to cuddle up to a tree. For most, free markets unhindered by governmental interference—labor regulations, taxes, and the like—take precedent over old growth forests. Managers do not usually build cost-inefficient solar panels to minimize their company’s environmental impact. They adhere to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous saying that a company’s only “social obligation is to increase its profits.” To them, incantations of the collective good are just sweet-sounding claptrap...