When: Saturday,  October 7,   5:30-7:00 PM

Where: 104 Gates Info Sciences Building, Stanford University, Palo Alto

Directions

• From San Francisco or the SF Airport: Take US 101 South to Embarcadero Rd West. Stay on Embarcadero for about 10 minutes, cross El Camino (major road), turn right on Campus Drive, turn left on Roth Way. The parking structure is on your left; Gates Computer Science Building is a block away on your right.
• From San Jose: Take US 101 North to Embarcadero Road West. Continue as above.
• You may also come in from SF & SJ via I-280. Take it to Alpine Rd East. Go right onto Junipero Serra Blvd. Turn left onto Campus. Drive West. Turn right onto Roth Way.
• By CalTrain (From San Francisco or San Jose): Get off at University Ave. Station in Palo Alto. Form there you can take the Marguerite Shuttle (red & white bus). Line "A" of the shuttle goes by Hospital, stops right in front of the Quad and then continues on. Line "B" goes up Galvez St.; this is not as convenient. Both lines run every 15 min. 6am to 8pm, Monday through Friday. You can also walk from the train station; takes about 25 minutes

Have you heard about these?

• Using bamboo and fiber for making roads and check-dams
• Engineered wood-bamboo composites for rural and small-town infrastructure
• Low-cost, high-performance, solar-thermal units that could create tremendous opportunities for non-farm value-addition and livelihoods in rural areas

There is an energetic and ingenious group of people under the leadership of K.R. Datye building a number of approaches to alternative energy, rural technology, watershed management and sustainable agriculture. The focus is to achieve reliance on local people's participation in production, direct and most efficient use of energy and resources, and least environmental degradation. The key is that most of them have been tested in the field at large and small scales, and a comprehensive approach to sustainable development is emerging.

Dr. Datye is a civil engineer with over 30 years of experience in planning, construction and operation of large scale irrigation, hydropower and infrastructure projects in India and Africa. He has worked both in Government and as an independent consultant for large private and public sector corporations. He has served on international committees charged with development and standardization of technical norms in hydraulic and geo-technical engineering. For the last 15 years, he has been deeply involved in rural development activities, initiating and leading a number of technology development projects in water, infrastructure and energy sectors. He continues to be involved in policy making committees, concerned with agriculture and rural development activities at both State and Federal government levels. He is a founding member of the Centre for Applied Systems Analysis and Development (CASAD) and Society for People's Participation in Ecosystem Management. He is also the author of Banking on Biomass, a book that articulates a radical new developmental strategy based on the renewable bio-energy and dispersed industrialization.
 
 

Contact for additional information: Girish (415)-337-7850,  Prashant (510)-791-0589
 
 

Co-sponsored by: Stanford India Association, Stanford University.

The Association for India's Development (AID) is committed to the cause of alleviating poverty in India measuring progress through the yard-sticks of self-reliance, people's involvement and volunteerism. To learn more about AID visit www.aidindia.org. The Bay-Area chapter's activities are at  www.aidindia.org/sfbay.