Client: Proyecto Mirador – Extraordinary Impact through high efficiency wood burning stoves

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

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Honduras based Proyecto Mirador is working with TACT to leverage Salesforce and PULSE to manage its stove building operations and performance metrics in rural Honduras.  A single stove can solve more than just respiratory problems for a household.

What does success look like to Proyecto Mirador?

  • Efficient monitoring and evaluation system for carbon certification
  • Technology to improve efficiency and provide a system to scale stove building operations in Honduras

Impact:

  • What is the lifetime value of healthy lungs?
  • >18,000 stoves built since inception in 2004
  • Each stove reduces up to 2.73 metric tons of C02 emissions each year
  • Forest, plant and animal habitat loss reduced
  • New jobs and businesses created to support stove building and management
  • Free time created or income made available from reduced firewood expenses
  • Shared cost means valued stove

Tech:

  • TACT: Implementation, customization and ongoing support via phone, email and skype
  • Salesforce Foundation Donation program: Proyecto Mirador took advantage of the Saleforce Foundation licencese donation and discount program
  • iPhone in the jungle: Thanks Steve Jobs…. iPhones are used by technicians to capture basic household information and manage stove builds
  • Salesforce Mobile: It works great on iPhones with on and offline capability
  • PULSE: For impact management
  • Lenovo Laptops with internal Gobi cards for GPS & 3G
  • DigitalGlobe: Check out their new cloud solution – Global Basemap.  When Google maps and Bing are not good enough…
  • Dual language system
  • Ongoing support via phone, email and skype