Posted in Energy Farming, India, Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement, tagged Pongamia pinnata, Solar Fencing on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
3,500 pongamia seedlings have been planted at the Himalayan Institute Energy Farming demonstration site at the Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement.
The seedlings have been doing very well and are now about 3-4 feet tall. Once fully mature, the seeds from these trees will be used to produce biofuel, which will help to bring jobs and sustainability to [...]
Posted in Energy Farming, India, Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement, tagged Pongamia pinnata on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Himalayan Institute Energy Farming team at the Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement has set to work preparing the land for planting young pongamia seedlings. Currently, the seedlings are doing very well at their nursery where they were planted only a few months ago.
A tractor from the Rabgyeling Settlement Farmers Cooperative has been used to clear the thorny [...]
Posted in Energy Farming, Himalayan Institute, India, Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The seed of the Himalayan Institute Tibetan Community Center vision was planted in winter 2007, when an Institute member introduced the HI Community Center concept to representatives of the Tibet Fund, an independent US-based nonprofit organization that works closely with the Central Tibetan Administration and grass roots organizations to sustain and empower the exile community. [...]
Posted in Energy Farming, India, Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement, tagged Biodiesel on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On March 22nd P.S. Reddy, project manager for the Energy Farming Pilot Project at the Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement, finished the planting of 10,000 seeds of pongamia pinnata. Many members of the project’s founding group were there to assist in the work. Rigden, Rabgyeling’s Agricultural Extension Officer, and Himalayan Institute representatives, Kiran and Virat Xavier, all [...]
Posted in Energy Farming, India, Tibetan Rabgyeling Settlement, tagged Biodiesel, Pongamia pinnata, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, Rural Empowerment on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On July 28, 2008 the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA hosted Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration (the official Tibetan government in exile). During his visit, Professor Rinpoche met with the leaders of the Himalayan Institute’s humanitarian projects to discuss some of the struggles faced by Tibetans in exile and discover [...]
