I don't know which I like more: the fact that a group called Potters for Peace actually exists, or the fact they seem to be quiet superheroes.
Specifically, they make a ceramic water filter which, it would appear, is high-tech (colloidal-silver-saturated earthenware), low-cost, easy-to-use and filters out "approximately 99.88% of most water born disease agents." They also make energy-efficient kilns. It makes me inexplicably happy to know that the potters are throwing down for sustainability.
Their numbers are completely amazing: the filters are made locally in places like Nicaragua and Guatemala and retail for around $9. Skilled potters can set up a production line in a couple of weeks, and an actual press to crank filters out at the rate of several dozen a day costs about three or four thosand dollars (if I remember right - it might have been $800).
$3/year for potable water (a filter lasts about three years) with local skills and local materials. This is the good stuff.
quiet superheroes is right. i know one of the potters, lynette yetter, who is truly a superhero. she gives of herself unselfishly, and really struggles to promote the ability of indigenous people to be self sustaining in an increasingly complex world. i would definitely encourage anyone who is interested in supporting a project that really directly effects the lives of the people it professes to, to contact potters for peace.
worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it's just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.
I don't know which I like more: the fact that a group called Potters for Peace actually exists, or the fact they seem to be quiet superheroes. 
