Rattan furniture

I came across this article while browsing around for inspiring outdoor furniture pieces. With our trip to the bamboo furniture factory coming up, I thought I'd share these images with you.

Bike-powered Latrine Pumps!

Sanitation in the developing countries is still being developed to be more efficient and more dignifying for the latrine emptiers. MIT graduate student and his team Sanergy just field-tested a bike-powered latrine pump in Kenya.

See: Engineering for Change for the article and Sanergy's website for how they built prototypes of latrines as well.