A smarter way to build schools

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/07/23/madagascar.children.school/index.html

It looks as if things might be getting a little brighter in Madagascar, where together with UNICEF, they have found a cheaper and more efficient way to ensure enrollment rates in elementary (primary) schools.  The method? Ensuring that the schools are physically there for the children to learn in of course.  Using a special machine whose only fuel is human-muscle energy (no electricity or gasoline), they are able to press together bricks that dry on site and allow a new school to be built in just two months.  This method is energy efficient in more than one way: traditionally, Madagascaran bricks would be heated in an oven fueled by the wood from surrounding forests.  The new method will therefore make sure that the children learning in these schools will also have cleaner air to breath.