CIC-Global with offices in Wheaton, IL USA and San Pedro, Nuevo Leon, Mexico offers a comprehensive solution for addressing global rural economic development and renewable energy needs. According to the United Nations, globally, 795 million people are living without access to enough food to live a healthy life and 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity, with 1 billion more having access only to unreliable electricity networks. Nearly 3 billion people rely on traditional biomass (such as wood and charcoal) for cooking and heating.Our mission and vision is simple. We aim to empower individuals, transform communities and grow a stronger planet.The lack of reliable energy restrains food security efforts, income-generating activities and hinders the delivery of basic services such as health care and education. In addition, inefficient cooking, lighting, and heating devices kills an estimated 4 million people a year and causes other negative health impacts. These emissions are also important drivers of climate change and local environmental degradation. To help meet this need, CIC-Global has created NopalPower™. NopalPower™ creates biofuel and organic fertilizer from nopal (prickly pear cactus) biomass. The complete NopalPower™ program also provides participating farmer partners with a share of revenue, food for human consumption, animal fodder and numerous other byproducts. CIC-Global also offers best-in-class waste-to-energy, wastewater treatment through electrocoagulation, tire processing and affordable home solutions that help lift individuals in emerging countries out of poverty and a cycle of dependency. Our program also creates more jobs than other renewable energy programs.We believe that our business model offers the most viable, cost effective solution to more food and more fuel. CIC-Global has successfully launched multiple programs in Mexico and have projects in the works in South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and the United States.