Still humming with enthusiasm from the Workshop in Superadobe.  Meet SO many great people - all engaged in working to build a better world.  Watching Nader Speak of the Dream and designing a Water Fountain for villages in Africa.  With No exposed Valves that break, at a height to allows access to water for drinking and filling containers but too high to wash feet in the drain, self-contained with no exposed breakable parts - piping flows inside the main Column.  Pricing out at about $1000 (est. depends upon costs on the ground) for a solar powered, self-contained, sand filtered, water-recycling Village Fountain that holds and recycles about 100 cubic feet of water with 6 heavy unbreakable copper Spigots and a gravel drain trench so no more Lost Water in mud puddles. Peace.  -TF

Soon Attending the CalEarth SuperAdobe Workshop.

Superadobe (sandbag and barbed wire) technology is a large, long adobe. It is a simple adobe, an instant and flexible line generator. It uses the materials of war for peaceful ends, integrating traditional earth architecture with contemporary global safety requirements. Long or short sandbags are filled with on-site earth and arranged in layers or long coils (compression) with strands of barbed wire placed between them to act as both mortar and reinforcement (tension). Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or asphalt emulsion may be added. This patented and trademarked (U.S. patent #5,934,027, #3,195,445) technology is offered free to the needy of the world, and licensed for commercial use.

Looking forward to learning from the Son of the Inventor of this amazing technology and applying these tools to building a small water supply, filtration and agricultural/aquaculture Village system in Africa. Stay tuned as this is where I will be giving updates on our progress in AFRICA!!!   
 - TF