And as part of the effort to involve the local people in rebuilding, women's self help groups are producing bricks, roofing tiles, and cement concrete hollow blocks to modern specifications.

Windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.

Self Check provides some rigor in terms of producing an assessment, but the approach resembles a retrospective.