[Stoves] Watson Fellowship - Looking for Suggestions

[Sarbagya Tuladhar]

Hi Rhiya,

Good on ya and wish u all the best on your travels. I was involved with the Engineers without borders australia as a stove design engineer working on a clean dung burning stove and did manage to get a first prototype to burning dung as a fuel in an improved cookstove. My design considered the characteristics of dung as compared to the fuel wood and hence was modified accordingly. Use of low grade fuel in Nepal is predominant in the southern parts of Nepal and hence it would help you to have a look around that region. I suppose you would more of divide your time between Kathmandu and the other  regions. I would like to recommend you to Marco Peter who is working with the Prakti stoves in Nepal and is currently in pokhara. He would be your best contact person in Nepal regarding stove work although there are numerous governmental n non governmental cookstove affiliated organisations throughout the country. 

Cheers 

Sarbagya Tuladhar
Sydney
Australia 

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On 21/10/2012, at 6:23 PM, Rhiya Trivedi <rhiyatrivedi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> My name is Rhiya Trivedi - I got access to this group from Cecil Cook, I hope you don’t mind. I am a 2012-2013 Thomas J. Watson Fellow, which means I have funding for twelve months to travel the world and investigate any topic of my choice. My funded topic deals specifically with efficient stove distribution and construction as a climate change solution for communities historically disempowered by climate change rhetoric. 
> 
> I was a very involved climate activist for five years in the American, Canadian, and international climate change movements but was obviously dismayed by the extent to which Northern powers entirely dominate and oppress Southern, vulnerable nations within multilateral negotiations. Recent climate science on the impact of cooking fires and black carbon on short term climate change offers some remedy to this unequal power dynamic; developing countries have some agency over the climate and I’m out to see whether stove deployment is at all possible on the scale necessary in the time afforded us by the climate (in the absence of action from the world largest carbon emitters). 
> 
> I’m coming from Malawi where I’ve split my time between two major stove efforts, one of which was specifically working to mitigate black carbon and one which was not. In South Africa I’m hoping to visit as many stove projects as possible and volunteer if at all possible (I’ve found throughout my life that lending a hand is the best way to understand the ins and outs of a project). I'll be spending 7 months with stove projects in India and Nepal come January. 
> 
> So mainly I’m looking for projects anywhere in South Africa (or Swaziland or Lesotho) that are contributing to might allow me to come and pick their brains for some time (I’m not doing formal research so my needs are very low - I just want to be able to chat with implementers and target communities as freely as possible). I’m completely flexible between mid-November and December 31st to come and visit, and quite possibly before that if those dates don't work. 
> 
> My CV is attached if that is at all of interest. I look forward to hearing from any of you at your earliest convenience. 
> 
> Warm regards for a cooler planet, 
> 
> Rhiya
> 
> <Trivedi.Resume.pdf>
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