Published online at American for Energy Leadership Solving the Energy Poverty Problem On 02.28.11, In Opinion, By Natalie Relich. In the age of iPhones, Facebook, and Twitter, we have instant access to information and constant means of communication. It is difficult to imagine life without these luxuries, but they are just that, luxuries. For a […]
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The Charcoal Project (TCP) is pleased to announce its participation in organizing the first International Conference on Charcoal. The conference will take place in Africa in 2012. To lay the groundwork for the conference, TCP and its partner, CIGA (Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), are preparing a Symposium &
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Hi, folks, we received the following communication from Simon Bishop of Shell Foundation: Good morning Shell Foundation is pleased to announce today a new cross-sector partnership that aims to tackle Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) at scale in Nigeria. The partnership between ourselves, Envirofit International (a global clean cookstoves business) and C-Quest Capital (a US-base carbon
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Financing the large-scale deployment of clean cookstoves A Q&A with Evan Haigler of Impact Carbon In late September 2010, several dozen men and women from around the world crammed into a small room at the United Nation’s Foundation’s headquarters in midtown New York to discuss how to deliver 100 million cookstoves by 2020 to the
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The start of the PCIA’s biennial forum in Lima is a great opportunity for us at The Charcoal Project to share our own news. But sharing everything at once would be like drinking from a fire-hose, so we’ll be gentle and use a regular garden hose instead. Immediately, though, it gives us great pleasure to
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For the forum’s agenda, please follow the link to the pdf posted on the PCIA website. We also would like to take this opportunity to invite you to our TED talk/presentation on the topic of Charcoal (surprise, surprise) on Wed. the 23rd during the Networking Hour (12:30 – 1:30p). Twitter, Facebook, CNN, and Al Jazeera
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Decades ago, the mathenge tree (prosopis juriflora) was introduced to East Africa from South America to combat desertification. But the “law of unintended consequences” turned the experiment into a failure. Now residents of Baringo district in Kenya are finding new uses for this reviled tree species.
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OPINION Creating a new asset class for investments in energy efficiency solutions for the world’s biomass dependent. We know that about half of the world’s population depends on wood, charcoal and other solid biomass for their daily cooking and heating needs. We also know the other half of the planet depends on fossil fuels to
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We’ve received the following request for participation: Dear Sir/Madam I kindly request your participation in a survey developed to assess the challenges and successful experiences in the Improved Cook Stove (ICS) implementation programs carried out around the globe. The purpose of this survey is to collect the know-how obtained through the experience in the diffusion
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If you’re stuck back at the home-office, in the field, and you can’t make it to Lima for the 5th Annual PCIA Forum, then visit us online (er, that would be right here) starting on Monday, February 21st for some behind-the-scenes coverage, interviews, program highlights!
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