Posting From Guatemala

We arrived in Guatemala Sat. Feb 21st.  The University of Michigan BLUELab team was held up in Miami overnight so we arranged to pick them up directly from the Guatemala City Airport on Sunday and head directly to Quetzaltenango (Xela, pronounced Shay-la, to the locals). The BLUELab has designed a very efficient and low cost [...]

John Barrie

John Barrie is the Executive Director of the Appropriate Technology Collaborative, a Nonprofit company whose purpose is “To design, develop, demonstrate and distribute appropriate technological solutions for meeting the basic human needs of low income people in the developing world”.  In addition to his design work, John Barrie has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture [...]