The Internet is such a powerful tool that US President Elect Barack Obama owes his election to it. The Vetiver Network owes much of its success to the Internet – just look at the real time image map of visitors…
The Vetiver System has come a long way over the past 20 years and there are a lot of users applying the technology for different purposes. We know that most users, once using it correctly, are avid fans of the…
Coppin Yoann of Madagascar, a private sector entrepreneur, has just set up a new Picassa album – Vetiver System Madagascar – showing some of his work. Apart from his excellent technical work in applying the technology, he shows how local farmers are now…
During the year TVNI announced the following prizes: A. Best Vetiver Picassa Gallery – $500 B. Best Vetive Blog – $250 C. Best new Vetiver technical innovation on the Internet – $250 We would like to invite those of you…
Greetings my fellow Vetervites! I wish you all a joyous season and a successful new year in meeting new challenges – some of which I hope are exciting. I am writing to you from a very cold Pacific North West….
I have added some new power points on Esnips http://www.esnips.com/web/VetiverSystemsPowerPoints/ They comprise selected power points from previous vetiver conferences. Some have Spanish captions. There are two of immediate importance: Vetiver System for Natural Disasters Reduction in Vietnam – An Overview – that should…
As promised we have now selected the winners of this years awards. It was not easy to make the final choices. I arbitrarily (my privilege) decided to exclude the best website, since none were very good and were in any…
There have been a number of cases where the Vetiver System has been singled out as being eminently useful as a technology that enhances community development projects. (see Mexico; Indonesia; Dabie Mountains in China; and Poverty Reduction and Resource Protection in a Guangxi Province Minority…
We have published Vetiver System Application. Technical Reference Manual in Swahili – full color! You can download it for free. It can also be purchased as hard copy from amazon.com. If you know people in East Africa who might find the Swahili…
The French Edition of this popular manual has been published. It is available (from June 17) at Amazon.com for $15. It can also be downloaded (free) from this site. French speakers please pass the word to others who may be interested….
