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Ugandan schoolmaster leads way in seeking energy efficiency & sustainable renewable fuels for schools

Born to a very poor family, orphaned at a young age, Henry Twinemasiko is providing hope and education to 1,650 schoolchildren in this remote corner of Uganda.

Henry’s next mission is to bring clean-burning biomass fuels and green technology to the schools and the community’s 15,000 inhabitants.

At The Charcoal Project we are proud and humbled to be Henry’s partner.

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Space-probe technology to generate electricity from biomass-burning stoves?

We can’t wait to see how this ends up! New Cookstove Attachment Uses Loudspeaker Parts to Turn Waste Heat Into Power by Rob Goodier, 03/30/11 as published in Inhabitat Read more: New Cookstove Attachment Uses Waste Heat to Generate Extra Power | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World This innovative new cookstove attachment

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A perspective on Carbon Markets for Wood Energy Projects

Last month at the PCIA conference in Peru we had a chance to learn about the very interesting work GIZ (the German Development Agency) is doing on sustainable and renewable solid biomass initiatives in developing countries. The representatives we met (Marlis, Lisa, and Verena) were kind enough to share valuable information, like this paper on

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NEWS: Wood, charcoal, viable energy sources – report

Combined sources based on the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) report: Bundles of energy: The case for renewable biomass energy New technologies can convert trees to liquid and gaseous fuel 30 per cent of global energy to come from this source by 2050 Developing nations have an untapped resource that would enable them

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Providing reliable, clean energy to 3 billion people will not break the bank or the environment.

“Delivering efficient, clean energy to those who lack electricity is not as daunting as it sounds.” — Prof. Daniel M. Kammen, The World Bank Whether it was the topic at hand, or the possibility of catching a bite to eat, it was standing-room-only at a lunch-time panel last Monday at the UNDP offices in New

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Top 10 things I learned at the PCIA forum in Lima

At the invitation of the government of Peru, the PCIA hosted its fifth biennial international forum outside the capital during the last week of February.

The Charcoal Project was especially thrilled to be able to speak with program managers, carbon finance experts, manufacturers, and policy-makers.

We learned many things after speaking and listening to so many people. What follows is a tiny sampling.


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IEA: Providing electricity and sustainable energy for all is within reach.

OPINION How many economists do you know that you can call a rock star or a superhero? In our books, Fatih Birol, Chief Economist at the IEA (International Energy Agency) is up there with Superman and Captain Planet. That’s because no economist out there has so tirelessly advocated for help for the 3 billion people

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International Conference on Charcoal planned for 2012

The Charcoal Project (TCP) is pleased to announce its participation in organizing the first International Conference on Charcoal. The conference will take place in Africa in 2012. To lay the groundwork for the conference, TCP and its partner, CIGA (Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), are preparing a Symposium &

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Mega-million $ partnership to kickstart clean cookstove deployment in Nigeria

Hi, folks, we received the following communication from Simon Bishop of Shell Foundation: Good morning Shell Foundation is pleased to announce today a new cross-sector partnership that aims to tackle Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) at scale in Nigeria. The partnership between ourselves, Envirofit International (a global clean cookstoves business) and C-Quest Capital (a US-base carbon

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