This message is our progress report to you, our donors, our investors.

One report states that "growing more forests and keeping forests as forests are only part of the solution, because focusing solely on the sequestration benefits of the forests misses the important (and substantial) carbon storage and substitution GHG benefits of harvested forest products, as well as other benefits of active forest management.”

Read the report and tell us what YOU think!

“Demand in Europe for biomass is very big. Many old coal-fired thermoelectric plants are making the decision to co-fire with biomass to extend their lives, principally in England.”

So, why can't African nations do the same?

1. At current rates, no high value timber will be left in Tanzania's coastal forest in 37 years.

2. The Tanzanian government lost $53 million USD in 2005. This is due to the fact that 96% of the timber harvest was undeclared.

3. China imports 10 times more timber from Tanzania that total declared imports.

This great video produced by the World Bank last year (2010) lays out the issue in a way that is well-documented and visually compelling.

The charcoal industry can generate employment and local income in both rural and urban areas.

-- Dr. Emmanuel Chidumayo, Zambia.

Please consider helping us build in rural Uganda a solid biomass energy efficiency and renewable fuels program for school community with 1,600 schoolchildren!