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Subscribe to stay involved.Peace Corps launches site providing resources for improved cookstoves and ovens
July 28th, 2010
This post comes to us via the good people at the IAP (Indoor Air Pollution Updates). We thought it might be of interest to our visitors as a resource.
Peace Corps – Improved Stoves and Ovens – Welcome to the Peace Corps Clean Indoor Air/ Improved Cooking Toolkit, your one-stop source for reliable and relevant information about improved cookstoves, ovens and biogas applications appropriate for Volunteer communities.
Read more or leave a comment.A kiln that boost crops, cuts CO2 emissions, and generate income? Now we’re talking!
July 22nd, 2010
A scrappy four year-old startup thinks it can improve the livelihood of the world’s energy poor by converting 6 billion tons of agricultural farm waste produced annually in developing countries into sustainable biomass fuel (like briquettes or biodiesel, for example) and biochar, a valuable soil additive that can dramatically boost a farmer’s crop yields.
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July 21st, 2010
The SEED initiative is calling for applications from small-scale and locally driven enterprises around the globe for the 2010 SEED Award for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development.
Read more or leave a comment.Energy efficiency: what Coca Cola’s World Cup video can teach us
July 18th, 2010
While we wait for Coca Cola to help us produce the perfect video that tells the story of energy-efficiency-technology-and-policies-solutions-to-energy-poverty, (they can help us find a better name, too!) we’ve compiled four slideshows recently published in the New York Times that we think help visualize the energy hunger/energy obesity world we live in.
Read more or leave a comment.Bob, Luis: It’s about energy efficiency and CC, guys.
July 14th, 2010
A group of Latin American NGOs has called on the World Bank and IDB (InterAmerican Development Bank) to pay greater attention to energy efficiency and Climate Change mitigation and adaptation.
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