VACANCY: Tanzania Forest Conservation Group is looking for an experienced and well-qualified candidate for the position of Technical Adviser for our Sustainable Charcoal Project. Candidates can be of any nationality.
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Rubaare: Project update in pictures
Four months ago we asked you to help us kickstart our renewable fuels and energy efficiency project in Uganda. And you did! We collected almost $6,500 for our project!
This message is our progress report to you, our donors, our investors.
Research: Clean Cooking Fuels & Technologies in Developing Economies
With a hat tip to WASHplus/IAP Updates, below are abstracts of selected articles from the Dec 2011 issue of Energy Policy dedicated to Clean Cooking Fuels and Technologies in Developing Economies (Link to all articles in the December 2011 issue) Item 1 – Authors: Min Bikram Malla, Nigel Bruce, Elizabeth Bates, Eva Rehfuess, Applying global cost-benefit analysis methods to indoor air pollution mitigation interventions in Nepal, Kenya and Sudan: Insights and challenges, Energy Policy, Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 7518-7529, ISSN 0301-4215, 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.06.031. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421511004873) Abstract: Indoor air pollution from burning solid fuels for cooking is a major environmental Continue reading
Is a forest a carbon sink or a source of low-carbon energy?
A number of new scientific studies have been released examining whether and how forests, forest management practices, forest products, and bioenergy from forests either contribute to or help mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration and emissions.
One report states that “growing more forests and keeping forests as forests are only part of the solution, because focusing solely on the sequestration benefits of the forests misses the important (and substantial) carbon storage and substitution GHG benefits of harvested forest products, as well as other benefits of active forest management.”
Greenpeace Canada: Biomass energy is a real “Biomess”
Greenpeace Canada just released a report that questions the country’s current wood energy industry, its practices, and its impact on the environment and climate change. The report suggests that “burning woody biomass on an industrial scale could severely harm Canada’s public forests and further contribute to the global climate crisis.”
Read the report and tell us what YOU think!