As the new week begins, we bring to you this compilation of Tweets and stories harvested during our internet fishing expedition over the past week. Have a great week ahead! — The Editors 1. Winner of the week’s top comedy award: 2. Nasa, via the NYT, brings perspective to Pakistan’s flooding woes: 3. Biomass more […]
The Lost Kittens for the week of 18 October Read More »
“If biomass is harvested in a sustainable way so that its long-term stocks are not depleted, and (it is) burned under ideal combustion conditions, it is effectively GHG (Greenhouse Gas) neutral.” from “Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya.” American Chemical Society/Environmental Science & Technology. (2003) Authors: Rob Bailis, Majid Ezzati, and Daniel
PAPER: Under ideal conditions, burning biomass is GHG neutral. Read More »
Solar cookers do not work as reliable substitutes for traditional biomass cooking.
That’s in part because rural inhabitants in developing countries are often small plot farmers who must get up when it’s still dark out to get things going on the farm. Breakfast, the key meal of the day if you’re a farmers, is impossible to prepare before sunrise using a solar cooker.
The working urban poor have a different problem. If a family is out all day and doesn’t return until after dark, how can they prepare dinner? Also, where can you safely leave your solar cooker with food cooking when you live in a shanty town?
Why solar cookers are not a viable option for the energy poor Read More »
Sub-Saharan Africa today produces about the same amount of greenhouse gases from charcoal production and consumption as all of Europe’s transport combined.
If nothing changes, emissions are likely to triple by 2030.
Charcoal: A Fuel in Urgent Need of Solutions Read More »
Friday’s Best-of-the-web and other assorted nuts and bolts and lost kittens we found for you for the weekend.
Lost kittens for Friday, October 1st. Read More »
One of the most curious facts about energy is that economies use more of it even as they use it more efficiently. This strikes us as strange because many of us have heard that making cars, buildings, and factories more energy efficient is the key to cheaply and quickly reducing energy consumption, and thus pollution.
Can biomass energy efficiency result in increased biomass fuel consumption? Read More »
What do you get when you gather the world’s leading household energy and health experts and offer them five days of dynamic workshops, technical presentations and stories from successful programs around the world?
Unexpected connections. Extraordinary insights. Powerful advancements.
PCIA meeting in Lima, Peru, is the place to be for clean cookstove community Read More »
Unlike, say, malaria or HIV/AIDS which require relatively straightforward interventions (bedding nets or retrovirals), albeit on a massive scale, deploying cookstoves in the volumes proposed by the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is a huge endeavor considering the stoves must be tailored for individual markets (think of all the different cuisines and cultures in China and India alone). Clearly, a “one-size-fits-all” approach will not work for better cookstoves.
A Global Alliance worth supporting Read More »
The Charcoal Project wishes to welcome Rogerio Carneiro de Miranda as the newest member of The Charcoal Project’s Board of Advisors.
This week’s announcement is an especially sweet moment for Rogerio who has dedicated a lifetime to improved cookstoves and biomass energy solutions.
“The visibility — and expectations — for clean cookstoves has never been higher,” says Rogerio.
The Charcoal Project welcomes Board member, Rogerio Carneiro de Miranda Read More »
The IEA said in an excerpt of its 2010 World Energy Outlook that some 1.2 billion people, equivalent to China’s population, would still have no electricity by 2030 if governments made no change to existing policies, down from 1.4 billion currently. The $36 billion per year only represented 3 percent of global energy investments projected by the agency to 2030.
IEA: Cookstoves are great but energy poverty still looms large on the horizon Read More »
Today’s announcement by Sec. Hilary Clinton and the ensuing coverage is undoubtedly a landmark for the improved cookstove community and all those who have sought to address the risks posed by indoor air pollution around the world. For the people who have toiled in obscurity for decades trying to improve the stoves, for those who
News compilation of today’s annoucement by Sec. Clinton Read More »
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce a significant commitment to a group working to address the problem, with a goal of providing 100 million clean-burning stoves to villages in Africa, Asia and South America by 2020.
The United States is providing about $50 million in seed money over five years for the project, known as the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
USA to provide $50M in seed money for launch of global clean cookstove campaign Read More »
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