We received this announcement from our alcohol-brewing friends at Project Gaia, and which we are happy to pass along! I’d like to let you know that PGI and partners are holding a workshop in Antananarivo on Nov 12-14, 2012 focusing on small-scale alcohol production for fuel. It is funded in part by the World Bank and […]
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It’s encouraging to hear the head of the Kenya Forestry Service call for the planting of trees for wood energy and other products. That’s exactly the right call. We would however want to make certain that his call to plant trees on agricultural lands does not come at the expense of food production. Food security
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 5 – The government now wants to legalize the charcoal business in an attempt to beat illegal charcoal burning which is largely to blame for the loss of the country’s forest cover.
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(Via HEDON) “In Gambia, Anthony Tabbal has established a business making fuel briquettes from groundnut shells. He was inspired to do this by his concern over deforestation in the country, with many trees being felled for firewood and charcoal making.”
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MIT is pleased to announce the opening of a position working on its Harvest Fuel Initiative, a collaboration between The Charcoal Project and MIT’s D-Lab.
JOB OPPORTUNITY: CHARCOAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST, D-Lab Scale-Ups, to advance D-Lab’s expertise in the areas of alternative biomass fuel production and clean cook stoves through applied research and field-base technology evaluations. Will also be responsible for providing technology support to Harvest Fuel Initiative charcoal enterprises by evaluating the technologies adopted and advising on design alterations to improve performance and optimize for production at large scale.
The Harvest Fuel Initiative was established by D-Lab in collaboration with The Charcoal Project (https://www.charcoalproject.org/) to enable the deployment of sustainable solid biomass fuels through appropriate technology and knowledge dissemination. The initiative provides seed funding and technical assistance to enterprises working on producing and commercializing alternative biomass fuels and clean cook stoves at the base of the pyramid.
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Announcing the 2nd Biomass West and Central Africa Congress 2012 scheduled to be held from 04 to 05 October 2012 in Accra, Ghana.
“This significant global congress presents a ideal platform for top industry and market stakeholders from forestry, power generation and wooden pellets producers to address key issues, and exchange ideas on how to attract investors to the biomass sector in West & Central Africa to sustainably develop the biomass industry in the region.”
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The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves has released a Request for Applications (RFA) for Field Studies to Evaluate Performance, Use and Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels.
STUDY: (…) Three fuels and five stoves were tested to measure harmful pollutant emissions. The preliminary results showed that the largest difference was found in the fuels (briquettes cleaner than wood).
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(NEWS) “Gold Fields plans to establish a 10 to 15 MW biomass energy plant in Ghana on the boundary of its Tarkwa mine in the country. All the power generated at the plant would be used by the mining operation.”
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President Barack Obama announced Friday (July 2oth) that the US was banning the sale of charcoal from Somalia to third countries. The effort is intended to deprive the Somali-based, Al-Quaeda affiliate, Al-Shabaab, from important revenue collected from the export of Somali charcoal to countries in the Gulf region.
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To support this goal, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves came out a few weeks ago with several videos that have been in the making for some time now. (The first four videos on the Alliance’s YouTube channel are the ones in question. And, yes, Julia Roberts does appear in most of them!)
VIDEOS: Can Clean Cookstoves and Energy Poverty go viral Read More »
From an OpEd in The National Review re: Rio+20: “The inability of billions of humans to meet their fundamental needs, including access to clean water and sanitation, nutrition, basic health care, housing, and education, mean an inability to protect the environment. The anticipated Sustainable Development Goals (to replace Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015) need to facilitate and not hinder ways in which all people can and should meet these basic needs. Fortunately, this is in line with protecting the environment, too. With those needs met, each person will have the ability and responsibility to engage in environmentally friendly practices. “
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