I went to the Mother Earth News Fair at Seven Springs Resort this weekend. I was there both Sat & Sun because I had taken my electric car for them to display. Our local electric car club had a booth and we had 2 electric cars, an electric bike and an electric tractor on display. There were alot of great speakers on many different topics, I got to attend only a few. There were venders with some great products there from greenhouses, saw mills, composting toilets, pots and pans, kitchen tools, plants, soap and cleaning supplies, top bar bee hives, books on many different topics, grain mills, vacation homes in Balize, different hand tools and tillers, you name it, some great stuff. One vender had a manufactured Rocket Stove for sale. The can was a bit smaller than mine, it had a rack that stuck out from the fire so that you could use longer sticks. It also had a wind screen around the top so that all of the heat would get to your pot. Other than that is was the same design that I made at home for $10.05. It was on sale at the Fair for $95 but the one they had there was their display modle, and it too was sold, but they would sell me one and give me free shipping if I wanted one. I did not have the heart to tell them that I had one that I had made myself,
I was pleased to see them selling manufactured Rocket Stoves. I am not sure but I think there is a deal that if we buy one here for that high price they give one to someone in the Third World. Not 100% positive about that, but I think that is the case. If that is the deal I would feel alot better about paying their price. But then again I could still build my own and donate the bal. to them and buy 9 stoves for people in the Third World,
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Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has.