Sustainable Practices

Barefoot College has a radio station on the campus where they broadcast folk songs as well as various podcasts. The station is listened to by the people of Tilonia, the neighboring community. Gheeta is in charge of picking the tracks from the computer and playing them for the community. She was fairly new at the job, but had still learned how to efficiently navigate the computer to find the various tracks. A room was converted to a sound damping station by gluing egg cartons to the walls.

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This is just one of the many ways Barefoot implements sustainable practices working with the materials available to them rather than trying to get their hands on scarce metal. The gift shop at the college also uses bags made out of recycled newspapers rather than using the typical plastic shopping bags. Solar cookers are also constructed at Barefoot and can be used to boil water within 20 minutes. The woman who demonstrated the solar cooker for us said, “My love is Barefoot.”solar cooker

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