[Stoves] Is this where we are headed ?

Richard Stanley rstanley at legacyfound.org
Mon Mar 21 17:18:02 CDT 2011


Tom,

 I was being entirely facetious in posting that image of the artical abou 'fuelwood, getting it right'.

Do we think that such a collection of agencies, however well coordinated,  will make one whit of difference to the 90% of those actually using basic cook stoves  every day ? It is of course ostensibly a "good thing" to have "coordination" but when that coordination becomes so removed from direct realities, that it chokes initiative and local involvement of those it is supposed to help,  then, one has to ask ...
 Quo vadis? 
Another king has no clothes question arises in a recent global  conference on clean air in a latin american nation  
Like the above initiative it is a wonderful idea to coordinate but one has to ask really, what is the carbon footprint of flying the 300 plus participants in form around the globe,  to talk about clean cooking stoves ? There were no local users present, no food was even cooked on the stoves. Who then is driving the design and ownership process on which all these efforts are to flourish ?  

In the real world, would it not be better spent on very much more localized meetings involving more local actors with more direct local consequences?  

Regards,
 
Richard Stanley




   



On Mar 21, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Tom Miles wrote:

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> wood-getting-it-right 
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