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The White House is taking part in
backing a plan that will allow construction of eco
friendly villages in Haiti.
The U.S. Government green White House
Administration under the leadership of Barack
Obama is lending support to the nation of Haiti by
backing sustainable architecture projects.
The efforts to rebuild Haiti's internal
structure will have outward benefits, as they plan
to re-educate Haitians to take full advantage of
Internet technology, e-commerce, and green
building advances. By doing so, the citizens of
one of the most impoverished countries in the
world may secure not only shelter but future
access to earn income by building cottage trade
businesses and marketing wares and products to a
global audience.
Despite growing political unrest in America
over the growing environmental concerns related to
the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the
cost of cleanup that will be likely to fall on
taxpayer shoulders should the British Petroleum
country default, the White House welcomed the
Haitian delegation to celebrate their Independence
Day and was assured of the U.S. full support for
the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti.
E-Dome structures -- or eco friendly domes --
have been proposed as new green building projects
on the island nation.
According to Don Kubley, “The Haitian leaders
were impressed with the domes as immediate
hurricane proof shelters for the homeless
currently living in tent villages. Unless,
something is done now, they believe that when the
hurricane season comes, their country will be
facing a major civil unrest.”
At the present time, the International
Green Technology Institute of the Tom Bradley
Legacy Foundation proposed to deploy 50 E Dome
Villages distributed throughout the country in the
next 18 months to house 100,000 people. According
to Erik Peterson, Principle of the Claremont
Environmental Design Group, “This “Village in
a Box” can be erected in a month, once the site
was selected and the proper grading was
completed.” The design group has won awards for
their regenerative planning and design work.
Project Green Haiti training leader, Rob
Srinivus, President of Eco-Hut Academy stated,
“Our goal is to develop an eco-entrepreneurial
society, therefore, we will train the people to
construct the E Villages as well as install the
solar energy systems. Our goal is to empower a
green generation of Haitians to rebuild their
villages where one can live, work, play, learn,
shop, and care the environment and each other.”
Les Hamasaki, CEO & President of IGTI and a
former Planning Commissioner with the City of Los
Angeles said, “Haitians must understand and take
full advantage of the Green Internet Revolution
that will bridge the “digital divide” between
the rich and poor countries. You don’t have to
be in downtown Los Angeles to conduct
international trade; you can be in an E Village in
Haiti and conduct e-commerce, distance learning,
telemedicine, and tele-banking for micro loans.”
Project Green Haiti is currently being reviewed
by Leslie Voltaire, UN Ambassador for the Recovery
and Reconstruction of Haiti.
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