cook stoves

Pollution particles emitted by diesel cars and trucks, coal-fired power plants, factories, rudimentary cook stoves, and the burning of forests are major contributors to the unhealthy pall of smog that blankets many cities and regions, particularly in the developing world. Scientists have long known that these ...

NAIROBI, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A Kenyan firm on Monday said it planned to roll out a clean cook stove that aims to reduce country's dependence on firewood and kerosene for household cooking. James Kariuki, Managing Director of International Research and Development Africa, told Xinhua in Nairobi that ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Radha Muthiah will step down as the chief executive officer of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves to become CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C., Devex can reveal. On Tuesday, both organizations are announcing the transition, which will happen in early ...

Under the project, LEDARS initially distributed 500 fuel-efficient cook stoves among the refugees in Jamtoli camp under the supervision of Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Senior Assistant Secretary and Mohammad Anas Ibne Monjur, 40 Field Artillery Camp Commander of Bangladesh Army, on February 22.

Under the ICS initiative, over 4,000 energy-efficient stoves have been installed in every household in 45 villages near the critical Nagzira-Nawegaon-Tadoba tiger corridor in the eastern Vidarbha Tiger landscape, said Anil Kumar, Project Head, Vidharbha Tiger Project, WTI. The modified cook stoves serve ...

After participating in the ENERGIA-sponsored Energy 4 Impact Women's Economic Empowerment programme, Oumy engaged her group in the use and sale of solar lamps and improved cookstoves. Among other things, Oumy was excited about the savings that the products provided for the local ...

COTTAGE GROVE — Institutional Stove Solutions is partnering with the Oregon Food Bank, Oregon Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (OR-VOAD), and other community organizations to place its innovative stoves and allied technologies on Oregon's coast and in rural communities to support ...

Enugu tackles environmental degradation, distributes clean cook stoves ... The governor gave this assurance during the flag-off of a pilot project to promote clean and efficient cooking stoves and low-carbon resilient development held at St. Cyprian's Secondary School, Nsukka, and Ohom Orba, in Udenu ...

NAIROBI, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tax incentives will help spur uptake of clean cook stoves in Kenya, the industry said on Thursday. Clean Cookstoves Association of Kenya (CCAK) CEO Myra Mukulu told Xinhua in Nairobi that the current tax regime has made efficient cookstoves out of the reach of ordinary ...

Ashok Gadgil redesigned a simple technology, the wood-burning stove, to help Sudanese refugee women cook more efficiently, thus sparing them from the dangers of gathering firewood far from camp. In the developing world, sometimes the simplest technology can have the largest payoff. That's the ...

Rolling out cleaner cook stoves on a massive scale would save both lives and forests—and it presents a big business opportunity. ... the UN to launch, in 2010, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC) and set a goal of driving the sustained use of 100 million clean cookstoves and fuels by 2020.

Fishmongers and community members of the Bomigo Island in the Keta Municipality in the Volta Region have undergone training on the benefits of using improved cookstoves for fish processing. The training was part of a day's sensitisation workshop under the auspices of the Institute for Sustainable ...

With increasing evidence that inefficient traditional chullahs — cooking stoves — in rural households are the largest source of indoor air pollution, scientists at ... In simple traditional cookstoves, biomass combustion produces a range of toxic products resulting from incomplete combustion, including PM 2.5, ...