[Stoves] Fwd: Igniting Change

[rongretlarson at comcast.net]

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This message below is highly important to this list. Great photos. Great message. A good bit on the problems of making and using charcoal in cooking. 

But I can't figure out how you can write something this lengthy and never get in the concept of charcoal-making stoves! 
No mention of some stove types being cleaner than others. 
No mention of some stoves being an income earner. 
No mention of some stoves being able to use small-sized non-wood residues - with most not able to do so 
No mention that some famous scientists worrying about excess atmospheric carbon and who have endorsed placing char in soil 


A fter writing the above, I searched for other types of stoves in the text - and also found nothing specfic (Rockets, Jikos, etc.) So I confess to being paranoid on this topic. Maybe the playing field is still level. Here's hoping . 

I recommend reading this. We need to be supportive. 



Ron 




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From: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves < cookstoves at unfoundation.org > 
Date: November 17, 2011 4:15:56 PM MST 
To: rongretlarson at comcast.net 
Subject: Igniting Change 
Reply-To: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves < cookstoves at unfoundation.org > 





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In This Issue • Radha's Message 
• Alliance Releases Sector Strategy to Ignite Change and Save Lives 
• Julia Roberts Speaks Out on World Pneumonia Day 
• New Research Highlights Link Between Toxic Smoke and Child Pneumonia, Cognitive Impacts 
• Partner Spotlight: Philippine NGO Takes Innovative Approach to Clean Cooking 
• New Alliance Partners 

	


To the Alliance’s Partners, Donors and Friends: 

Radha's Message 

This month I'm especially pleased to share with you the release of Igniting Change: A Strategy for Universal Adoption of Clean Cookstoves and Fuels . This report reflects the tremendous time, effort and contributions that our partners, Working Group co-chairs and members, the Alliance Secretariat, the United Nations Foundation team, and especially Leslie Cordes and Amy Sticklor, put into making this report a reality. It's a comprehensive and clear vision for transforming the sector and affirming our creed that 'cooking shouldn't kill'. As you'll see, a major international media outlet has already written about the Alliance and the report! report photo

The Alliance teamed up this month with the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia to raise awareness around World Pneumonia Day, and Julia Roberts spoke out about this biggest killer of children under the age of five. As many of you are aware, almost half of the two million people who die annually from diseases related to toxic cookstove smoke are children who die of acute lower respiratory infections, most commonly pneumonia. 

Also in this issue we highlight two new studies from the Guatemala RESPIRE project run by the University of California, Berkeley, that are strengthening the evidence base for links between pneumonia and toxic cookstove smoke in children under age 5, as well as documenting startling new data regarding cognitive impacts from prenatal smoke exposure in children ages 6 and 7. 

Lastly, no newsletter would be complete without a story from the field. This month we learn about the work of one of our partners in the Philippines, whose clean and affordable cookstove is really making a difference in the lives of women in that country. 

Sincerely, 



Radha Muthiah, Executive Director 



Photo: A woman gathering wood fuel, taken in Ethiopia during a United Nations Foundation visit to the Horn of Africa in October 2011. Credit: UN Foundation/Talia Frankel 
		
		
	
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