THE CUP OF coffee that Paul Gisler had this morning could change lives. The lives of women in African villages, for example, where the daily search for firewood takes many hours. Gisler’s coffee was made from water that was heated by special solar lenses in the cooking place of the solar model greenhouse of Tamera. The cooking place is one of several modules at this intriguing new ‘Solar Power Village’, which hopes to provide a model for the spread of such villages all over the world.
In May 2006, the Tamera University Monte Cerro in Portugal was officially launched. For the next three years, ...
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