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EL FASHER, Sudan and BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Berkeley, California-based Darfur Stoves Project (DSP), in partnership with Oxfam America and the Sudanese organization, Sustainable Action Group (SAG), has launched an assembly facility for fuel-efficient stoves in El Fasher, the capital of the Darfur region. The assembly facility is the last stop on a global technology solution supply chain that starts with testing and design in the Lawrence Berkeley National...
Mexican researchers found replacing open indoor fires with vented stoves improved lung health in people living under such conditions. Study researcher Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez of the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica says the benefit was on par to a pack-a-day smoker kicking the habit. The study, published in the Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, analyzed the first year of data for an ongoing project that looks at the impact of replacing traditional fires with a Patsari...
FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Envirofit International, a technology leader using sustainable, scalable business models to solve global health and environmental problems, is introducing its next generation of clean cookstoves for emerging markets. Featuring the EnviroFlame Combustion System(TM) and Envirofit Cooking System(TM), the Envirofit G-Series represents a revolutionary change to traditional cookstoves paradigm, enabling Envirofit to enter new global markets and meet...
RICHMOND, Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A cooking revolution is underway in the Kiboga district of Uganda. More than 200 families are finding that the double Rocket Lorena stove is making it easier to cook and provide healthy meals for their children. The stoves also are a money maker for youth in the community and are not as harmful to the environment. These unique stoves are made of out a local mixture of grass, water and mud. And for youth in the Nakitembe community in...
Millions of homes in rural areas of Far Eastern countries are heated by charcoal burned on small, hibachi-style portable grills. Scientists in Japan are now reporting development of an improved "biomass charcoal combustion heater" that they say could open a new era in sustainable and ultra-high efficiency home heating.Their study was published in ACS' Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a bi-weekly journal.In the study, Amit Suri, Masayuki Horio and colleagues note that...
By Duncan, Kirsty For the first twenty years that climate change garnered international attention, gender issues were not on the agenda - although women (1) are generally poorer than men, and (2) are more dependent than men on primary resources (e.g. agriculture) that are threatened by changes in climate. Women often shoulder the responsibility for the household water supply and its purification; in Kenya, for example, carrying water may use up to 85% of a woman's daily energy intake. Because...
GENEVA -- Half the world's population burns wood, coal, dung and other solid fuels to cook food and heat their homes, exposing them to dangerous smoke that kills 1.5 million people a year, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday.The World Health Organization (WHO) said women and children in Africa and Asia were especially vulnerable to indoor air pollution from open fires and poorly ventilated stoves.Children make up 800,000 of the 1.5 million people who die each year from polluting household...
