A vision for clean cooking access for all
Nearly one in three people, the vast majority of them in the poorest regions of the world, still lack access to clean cooking facilities, with major ramifications for public health, local environments
Chulhas (Cookstoves)
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To Push Clean Cookstoves, Involve The Cooks, Report Says
Clean cookstoves that burn more efficiently and channel smoke outside could save millions of lives around the world, but only if the cooks themselves are part of the solution, scientists reported on Thursday.
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Energy for all: financing access for the poor
As energy is the source of all life, so modern energy can be the source of a better life for all. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) has focused attention on modern energy access
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Carbon credits to bring down cost of clean stoves for rural poor
While using carbon credit sales to boost a company's revenues has been attempted, the new trend is to ride on the additional revenue generation potential to prune the upfront cost of the product that earns
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Bangladesh to get US support to tap solar energy for irrigation
Bangladesh on Monday sought US support for tapping solar power to use for irrigation purposes to reduce dependency on highly subsidized diesel and electricity to run the existing shallow pumps. State
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Clinton Takes "Clean Cookstove" Drive To India
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed one of her simplest but potentially most transformative diplomatic priorities in India on Wednesday: clean cooking stoves. Clinton, who last year launched a $50 million U.S.
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Six projects to conserve environment
The lives of rural Bhutanese is expected to get better once the six projects for environment conservation is implemented. From November this year, people in Sipsoo in Samtse and Sarpang will have a stone masonry and elephant trench built with solar electric fencing to keep the elephants away. While up north the project would replace the shingle roofs of 236 houses in Merak and 139 houses in
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Household energy access for cooking and heating: lessons learned and the way forward
This study provides the review of two World Bank experts on the 19 household projects supported by the Bank. The study provides eight lessons, namely: (1) holistic approach to household fuels is needed:
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Stoves, Seeds Could Save African Forests: Report
Efficient cookstoves and better crop seeds could play a key role in saving forests in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide, environmental experts reported on Sunday. This is important, since deforestation and forest degradation are the second-largest source of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions after the burning of fossil fuels.
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Household cookstoves, environment, health, and climate change: a new look at an old problem
<p>This review on state of cookstove research & action in the developing nations including India, examines opportunities for technology development and presents a roadmap for scaling up stove programs as transformative tools for sustainable development.</p> <br /> <p> </p>
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Speck by speck, dust piles up
<p>The world has a dust problem. There is more of it than there used to be. Apparently, the amount of airborne dust doubled in the 20th century, according to a recent scientific paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The claim sounds outlandish. The amount of dust in the world—like the amount of sin or acne—must be a constant.