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 efficient than ethanol Biomass converted to electricity could achieve 80 per cent more “miles per acre” than the same material converted to ethanol, a group of United States researchers announced last year. As an example, the study by researchers from several US universities found that Continue reading
The Charcoal Project
Charcoal: A Fuel in Urgent Need of Solutions
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.
Lost kittens for Friday, October 1st.
Friday’s Best-of-the-web and other assorted nuts and bolts and lost kittens we found for you for the weekend.
PCIA meeting in Lima, Peru, is the place to be for clean cookstove community
5th Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Forum (PCIA)
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.
- 1 day kick-off event, Monday, February 21, 2011:
Learn about the government of Peru’s national stove campaign. - 5-day Biennial Forum, February 22-26, 2011:
Join us to address topics including stove performance standards and testing, monitoring and evaluation, carbon financing, expanded commercial markets, recent research outcomes, community engagement and much more.
A Global Alliance worth supporting
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.