StoveTec’s rocket stoves come in different shapes and sizes but their main product line will completely incinerate wood and charcoal. This means the stove can average a 40 – 50 percent reduction in fuel consumption and 50 – 75 percent in emissions reduction.
The rocket stove’s rocket stove Read More »
Everyone knows that telling people to voluntarily use less fossil fuels because CO2 emissions are harming the planet is a very weak motivator. But tell them they can save money, even make money, if they switch to a sustainable alternative fuels, THEN they start paying attention. In some ways, that’s what a Tanzanian non-profit is
Can a Tanzanian venture spark a briquette revolution in Africa? Read More »
This short YouTube video shows how tiny air pollution particles known as black carbon move throughout our planet. We reported on Asia’s Atmospheric Brown Clouds earlier.
Though global distribution of soot remains difficult to measure, NASA researchers use satellite data and computer models to better understand how these short-lived particles influence Earth’s climate, cryosphere, and clouds.
This scientific data visualization uses data from the GEOS5 GOCART climate model to show black carbon’s atmospheric concentration from August to November in 2009.
Video animation of black carbon emissions over Asia Read More »
This post comes to us via the good people at the IAP (Indoor Air Pollution Updates). We thought it might be of interest to our visitors as a resource.
Peace Corps – Improved Stoves and Ovens – Welcome to the Peace Corps Clean Indoor Air/ Improved Cooking Toolkit, your one-stop source for reliable and relevant information about improved cookstoves, ovens and biogas applications appropriate for Volunteer communities.
Peace Corps launches site providing resources for improved cookstoves and ovens Read More »
A scrappy four year-old startup thinks it can improve the livelihood of the world’s energy poor by converting 6 billion tons of agricultural farm waste produced annually in developing countries into sustainable biomass fuel (like briquettes or biodiesel, for example) and biochar, a valuable soil additive that can dramatically boost a farmer’s crop yields.
A kiln that boost crops, cuts CO2 emissions, and generate income? Now we’re talking! Read More »
The SEED initiative is calling for applications from small-scale and locally driven enterprises around the globe for the 2010 SEED Award for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development.
Funding: 2010 SEED Awards target Africa Read More »
While we wait for Coca Cola to help us produce the perfect video that tells the story of energy-efficiency-technology-and-policies-solutions-to-energy-poverty, (they can help us find a better name, too!) we’ve compiled four slideshows recently published in the New York Times that we think help visualize the energy hunger/energy obesity world we live in.
Energy efficiency: what Coca Cola’s World Cup video can teach us Read More »
A group of Latin American NGOs has called on the World Bank and IDB (InterAmerican Development Bank) to pay greater attention to energy efficiency and Climate Change mitigation and adaptation.
Bob, Luis: It’s about energy efficiency and CC, guys. Read More »
Folks,
First off, apologies for the radio silence over the past week. We were slowed down a bit by the heat wave that struck the Northeastern United States but which seems to have passed, at least for now.
Of heat waves and when “extreme weather” becomes just plain vanilla weather Read More »
We just couldn’t resist preempting Steve Jobs‘ announcement of the next hot Apple gadget with our own launch today, the world’s first Global Biomass Index.
As we indicated before, the index will track the price of biomass and related fuels around the world.
The tool is a work in progress and you can expect to see greater functionality with each new version.
Ultimately, however, the index will only succeed if you help us by contributing information from wherever you are!
Help us track the cost of biomass fuel around the world Read More »
In a meeting this week with the folks from Acumen Fund, we were asked what was holding up the large-scale deployment of improved cookstove worldwide?
The truth is there is no simple answer. Take your pick: low levels of capital investments, tariff barriers, lack of incentive policies, fluctuation price of oil, poor social marketing, instability in the carbon credit market, absence of standards, etc.
Looking for solutions, the folks at McKinsey and Co. think stakeholders would do well to focus on networking and sharing resources.
Listen to the Harvard Business Review and they’ll tell you the US needs to spend more time investing in social entrepreneurs in the developing world and less playing the role of incubator.
We’ve received the following announcement: Dear Improved Stoves Working Group, In the framework of the Environmental Health Protection and Management platform, we would like to let you know that IOM (International Organization for Migration, not to be confused with Institute of Medicine of the National Academies) has funding available for quick wins environmental health project
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