Devin: Macs are cool. Go team macintosh!

Robin: Yes, we call it the Peace Corps Diet: lots of walking, non-processed foods, and the occasional bout of amoebic dysentery. Unfortunately for some, they still end up gaining weight. Maybe too many chicharrones.

Anne: The firewood issue is a big deal, you're right. There is a crisis coming, and no one is doing enough about it. When the wood runs out, it will be a disaster, sortof like when the oil runs out in the first world. A solar cooker is one of those ideas I would have JUMPED at a year ago, but the sad truth is, I know better now and it's not a good option here. We are clouded in almost all the time, so the embodied energy in the materials wouldn't justify its presence. To make it worse, there's the social/ realism aspect of it: no one would want to mess with it, regardless of how much we pushed it. Instead, my "answer" is twofold: reduce consumption with higher efficiency stoves, and encourage reforestation as a sustainable biomass source. Even those two ideas are WAY harder than they sound, and we will be fighting this battle until the day we leave, I know it.