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Activity Description: Adobeterra builds homes and construction blocks for building homes out of adobe, a tradional Mexican clay paste. This building material is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and naturally insulating, but is not usually resistant to weight and humidity.

Now, however, with assistance from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional's Incubation Center for Base Technology Companies (CIEBT), Adobeterra has developed compressed adobe blocks that have the same resistance to weight and humidity as bricks and even concrete, but at 50% of the price and with none of the environmental impact.

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A pilot project in low-income housing by Mexican entrepreneurs Real Paraiso, the community of Real del Sol in Tecamac boasts 1,800 newly-built homes, ready equipped with high-speed Internet, a Mexican Texa PC, and wireless connectivity service tagged at $18 per month. In a city that until recently had no phone line service, features of the wirless internet service include a neighborhood portal allowing online purchases from local stores and internal communication amongst neighbors; a security system; an e-mail account, and more.

Activity Description: N'Kozi Developments (Pty) Ltd dba n'Kozi Homes is a start-up innovative company led by Joseph Feigelson and has been registered as private company in Cape Town. N'Kozi provides an integrated product and mechanism for delivery of "Smart Sustainable Modern African Digital Eco-Villages (SMADEV)" to low-income communities. Poorer citizens will benefit from upgrading to energy efficient structures while obtaining free solar heated water, free solar lighting, and waterless toilets, while at the same time benefiting from education, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Activity Description: Moladi is utilizing a unique plastic injection molded technology to produce cast-in-place mortar structures. The process allows unskilled laborers to use indigenous materials to quickly and cheaply construct high standard permanent buildings that are earthquake, cyclone and tsunami resistant. With the intended purpose of "housing the nations", the construction technology addresses four key challen

Activity Description: STA sells solar home lighting systems to rural communities in Brazil. STA enlists the support of community leaders to overcome incorrect assumptions about solar energy in the community, and uses a microfinancing scheme to make its product affordable.