In a rural community in Northern Nicaragua lives a group of women who are bringing new meaning to the words solar empowerment. The Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa (Solar Women of Totogalpa) is a cooperative that serves as a model of economic, ecologic and social sustainability in rural Nicaragua. The Solar Women's cooperative recently opened a solar restaurant in their rural community. The electricity for the 1,850 square foot adobe building is run entirely on solar photovoltaic power. The cooking is done by solar cookers, a biogas cookstove using methane from the latrines, and a charcoal cookstove utilizing charcoal that they produce themselves out of cornstalk waste. The Solar Restaurant not only offers nutritious solar cooked food to the community and tourists, but also showcases sustainable technologies, produces income for the women, and has greatly empowered the women to take a vested interest in bettering their community and environment.
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机译：在尼加拉瓜北部的农村社区中，一群人为太阳能赋权带来新的含义。 Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa（Totogalpa的太阳能女性）是一个合作社，作为尼加拉瓜农村经济，生态和社会可持续发展的模式。太阳女性合作社最近在农村社区开设了一家太阳能餐厅。 1,850平方英尺的Adobe大楼的电力完全落在太阳能光伏电力上。烹饪由太阳炊具，沼气烹饪器，沼气烹饪器，使用厕所，利用木炭的木炭烹饪灶，它们从玉米秸秆中产生自己。太阳能餐厅不仅为社区和游客提供营养丰富的太阳能烹饪食品，而且还展示了可持续的技术，为妇女提供了收入，并极大地赋予妇女对更好的社区和环境来实现既得利益。
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