Mr. Spears facilitated a one day workshop at the Agency for Reconstruction and Development (ARD) Conference Room on Tuesday, during which he provided a variety of tested alternatives in construction methods and materials, waste water recycling and management, composting, solar energy and other environmentally friendly practices.

The Workshop was organised by the Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative of the Climate Institute in Washington DC, in collaboration with the ARD.

Mr. Spears outlined how to build the complete ‘earth home’ constructed with compressed earth brick walls, complete with solar oven and electricity, rain water collection, composting and other natural systems. These systems have been successfully applied in China, Mexico and Africa.

The workshop was attended by contractors, electricians, plumbers, architects, engineers, contractors and representatives from the Ministry of Communication, Works and Transport, the Ministry of Health and the Environment, the Housing Authority of Grenada, the Grenada Bureau of Standards, the Contractors Association of Grenada and the Grenada Electricity Services Ltd., as well as students from the T.A. Marryshow Community College.

Mr. David Sinclair, Director of Sinclair Enterprises Ltd. and a member of the Board of Directors of the Contractors Association of Grenada, said the Workshop was very useful.

“I am quite excited about what I have learned today, and so are the other members of our Association who are here. I can see these methods happening in Grenada,” he said.

Mr. Sinclair said there is plenty of local clay for making compressed bricks and the utilisation of waterless toilets, recycling toilet waste into fertilizer and other sanitation systems can be applied in Grenada.