We’re kicking off our first crowdfunding effort ever!
Please consider helping us build in rural Uganda a solid biomass energy efficiency and renewable fuels program for school community with 1,600 schoolchildren!
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Join PCIA’s upcoming webinars
Only a few days remain to register for the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air’s (PCIA) webinar on Impacts of Household Fuel Consumption from Biomass Stove Programs in India, Nepal and Peru. This is the second in the PCIA stove testing webinar series taking place this summer.
Michael Johnson, of Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, will present the results of in-home assessments conducted with fellow PCIA Partners in Nepal, India and Peru.
The Road to Sustainable Charcoal — What world figures tell us and not.
Today we begin posting the first of a dozen paper’s presented in June at a symposium in Arusha, Tanzania, on Sustainable Charcoal. The event, co-organized by The Charcoal Project, heralded the launch of a year-long initiative that will culminate in an International Conference on Charcoal and Solid Biomass in 2012.
Today’s topic focuses on the absence of reliable data on woodfuel and charcoal use from a national and global perspective.
Hot Tip: this is sure to be a top-shelf priority at next year’s conference!
Global Cookstove Survey for Asia and Africa
GERES is conducting a GLOBAL SURVEY TO IDENTIFY IMPROVED COOKSTOVE PROGRAMS’ NEEDS IN THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTIRES OF ASIA AND AFRICA
If you are:
– An NGO, International Development Organization, Government, Ministry, Research institution or Private Company working for, or wanting to, develop Improved Cook Stoves programs in Asia and Africa you are invited to participate!
Yo, African countries: Don’t count your billions before they hatch.
African countries hoping to cash in on the $100 billion carrot being dangled by climate change negotiators for adaptation and mitigation in the developing world will first have to figure out how to sustainably provide energy to the more than 90% of people in sub-Sahara that depend on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating.