http://www.chimp-n-sea.org Wildlife Conservation Fund Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:59:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en * * * * * Are you far from Washington, DC? Too far to make it to the Traveler's Circle? Experience the December tc live over the internet from anywhere ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/12/04/travelers-circle-december-2007/ A new edition of the Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project Newsletter has been released! Visit our newsletter page for this and previous editions of the newsletter. http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/11/29/kibale-newsletter/ What an amazing evening! Thank you to Eric Maring and Potter's House for holding a benefit concert for Chimp-n-Sea. Thank you to all who supported the event. http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/11/26/benefit-concert-nov-3-2007/ vEcotourism, which is being pioneered at Chimp-n-Sea, has strong potential to help protect people and wildlife in remote areas on a vast scale.  We're making progress with both the vEco technology and with in-country (Uganda, to start with) infrastructure.  We're starting to provide vEcotours, free, to the public, each week.  ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/10/31/vecotourism-building-momentum/ Hello, tc! Before the story this month, check this out: http://www.singtotheheart.com/music/Welcome.html Click on "APPEARING..." And read about the Saturday, November 3rd Birthday Show and Chimp-n-Sea fundraiser. This will be one ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/10/02/travelers-circle-october-2007/ Chimp-n-Sea's team welcomes you to our updated website. If you are visiting for the first time we think you will find our mission important and our projects exciting. If you are a returning visitor we are glad you are back! Take an in depth look at the site ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/07/26/welcome-to-our-updated-webpage/ A mini-workshop was held at the Isunga church where about 25 people learned how to make rocket stoves. After spending some time practicing the design, church members then built a new stove for the church, which will serve to demonstrate the idea for visitors. We'll be back ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/02/15/stove-building-at-kasojo/ For the project's second educational contest, we asked people to submit creative writing samples - either traditional stories they had heard from relatives, or original creative works. Seventy entries were submitted, with educational and utilitarian prizes (books, posters, pens, pencils, jerry cans, mosquito nets) awarded to the top 15 ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2007/02/04/writing-contest-awards/ On December 10th 2006 we hosted a stove workshop at the main demonstration area. More than 50 people came to learn about the rocket stove and haybox. A contest between a traditional stove and an efficient stove proved very exciting, and the taste test at the end ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2006/12/10/stove-workshop/ Having installed fuel-efficient rocket stoves at five demonstration areas, individuals have begun to express interest. The project has begun to assist in constructing stoves at family homes. The family supplies the majority of the materials themselves, with harder-to-find sheet metal sold to them at our cost. ... http://www.chimp-n-sea.org/2006/11/01/family-stoves/