[Stoves] providing tree seedlings

Tue Sep 9 08:31:22 CDT 2014

Dear Richard, Gus and Michael et al.

Thank you for your positive responses to the idea of helping your biomass
cookstove customers invest in a future source of woodfuel. We have been
promoting the distribution of a free packet of multi-use tree seeds with
each of our products sold.
We have found that while of course not everyone understands or is willing
or able to invest in some type of forestry - many many of our customers
appreciate the fact that when receiving a packet of tree seeds for them to
grow a future source of charcoal and firewood (and timber etc) - it is a
light bulb moment and as one person told me..''its like getting a free oil
well when you buy a car.... but only much greener''.
I think that providing allied forestry inputs and information is a very
easy and affordable CSR project that most reputable stove makers can and
should be involved in.
I also find it very interesting to think about, when planting long to
mature tree species, where will you and your stove project/business be in
20+ years - what changes in your markets, stove sizes, fuel types, foods
and costs of alternative fuels can you imagine will be in play by then.

Here is a sample of the tree seed packets we distribute - this particular
one is a highland farmers mix, a timber tree (Meru Oak) a fodder and fuel
tree (lucena) and a fuel and forage tree (acacia). We (the Woodlands 2000
Trust) can produce them for you with your company's branding and logos for
80ksh each if anyone operating in East Africa is interested.

Many thanks

Teddy

*Cookswell Jikos*
www.cookswell.co.ke
www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos
www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com
Mobile: +254 700 380 009
Mobile: +254 700 905 913
P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya

Save trees - think twice before printing.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Michael N Trevor <mtrevor at mail.mh> wrote:

>   I would truly love to see people doing trees add breadfruit to the mix.
> A single tree can supply a family of 4 for about 60/70 years.
>
> Michael N Trevor
> Marshall Islands
>
>  *From:* Richard Stanley <rstanley at legacyfound.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 07, 2014 1:46 PM
> *To:* Inversiones Falcon <invfalcones53 at yahoo.com> ; Discussion of
> biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Stoves] On Teddy's idea of providing tree seedlings
> withones product or service ...
>
> Thanks Gustavo,
>
> Re seedlings distribution, I am quickly discovering that the provision of
> tree seedling  along with stoves and other activities is being done far
> more widely than I realized. Have a lot to learn about this. Permit me to
> try to piggy back on your experiences and Bobs (and others so involved, in
> this list) when it comes to things to do with briquettes too.
>
> Otto Formo wisely suggested too, that distribution of seedlings should be
> incentivised so that they will be tended to,  for successful take up; How
> do you or your Bob in Nchi ya Tanzanai ensure that the receipient will take
> care of them.
>
> We are in working Nicaragua now and have friends who are keen on getting
> into El Salvador:  Paul -Tlud-Anderson for one.
>
> We'll  be returning to Nica  (Laguna de Apoyo), from mid Octubre thru
> Februero,  so lets finally think about a collaboration for training in your
> pais too.
>
> finally eh ?
>
> Ricardo 'el pelon' Stanley
>
>
>
>  On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Inversiones Falcon wrote:
>
>  Dear Richard, we deliver trees in the rainy season in El Salvador we
> just delivered close to 5.000 trees in communities where we delivered
> stoves in the past. this was done with the help of my american friend Gary,
> Paul and reverend Darrel from Virginia, they come every year to help on the
> trees delivery.
> see this year pictures.
>
> Best Regard
>
> Gus
>
>
>   On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:19 PM, Richard Stanley <
> rstanley at legacyfound.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Hamjambo Mzee Teddy,
>
> Providing tree seedlings with ones related ( or even unrelated ) product
> or service is a very good idea.
> If everyone of the stove maker and briquette producers and trianing
> services out hter were to offer tree seedlings  along with their product or
> service, what an impact it would have !
>
> I will  suggest it  with the briquette trainers and producers whom we
> know.
>
> Thanks
> Richard Stanley
> www.legacyfound.org
>
> PS. Check out website news for recent raining and demonstration activities
> by the Lushoto based  Marietta and Zaugia training team at the Nane Nane
> agricultural show in Morogoro Tanzania. And $5 USD to anyone who can fine a
> foreign face in the crowd.
>
>
>  On Sep 3, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Cookswell Jikos wrote:
>
> Hi Kirk - good thinking - I personally feel that if people are going to
> continue to use woodfuel to cook and heat with in the future, specifically
> charcoal and firewood - and even if its just for perhaps the occasional
> Sunday BBQ in 2040, let alone everyday, woodfuel should be looked at as one
> of many 'green' renewable energy options that compliment each other as
> household energy sources.
>
> I think that biomass cookstove manufacturers should be at the forefront of
> investing in better holistic forestry practises and education for so many
> reasons; mainly of course as source of fuel for their stoves in future, but
> also for all the other positive trickle down ecosystem effects and
> resources (timber etc) forests provide us.
>
> It would even appear, according to this article below that tree's actually
> even clean the air on a multi-billion dollar a year basis (
> http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8279/20140728/trees-reduce-air-pollution-respiratory-problems.htm)
> - to me this opens a fascinating line of thought for integrating long term
> urban planning options for cleaner enviroments, food and fuel production
> etc. in cities like Nairobi - but basically it sounds like we all need to
> plant soooo many more trees!
>
> So if everyone on this email listserve plants and looks after even just
> four $0.25c tree seedlings this year (stoves listserve card carrying
> members get free tree seedlings from Cookswell Jikos if you are in Kenya) -
> I guarantee you, it'll be one of the best non-direct cookstove investments
> you can make for your kids while they tinker with stoves in 2040.
>
> Cheers
>
> Teddy
>
>
>  *Cookswell Jikos*
> www.cookswell.co.ke
> www.facebook.com/CookswellJikos
> www.kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com
> Mobile: +254 700 380 009
> Mobile: +254 700 905 913
> P.O. Box 1433, Nairobi 00606, Kenya
>
> Save trees - think twice before printing.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kgharris <kgharris at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> I was wondering what happens when all the people whos lives are saved add
> their demand on an already stressed environment.  If 10,000 lives are saved
> that is 10,000 more mouths to feed and 10,000 more people cutting down
> forests.  That's today, 20 years from now it will be even more as the saved
> children begin their own families, and in 40 years even more.  I asked a
> friend about this and he, being a retired high school teacher, said that
> the stoves must be accompanied by education.  Any thought on what education
> would be good?
>
> Kirk Harris,
> Santa Rosa, CA. USA
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Marc-Antoine Pare <marcpare0 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
>  *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2014 11:57 PM
> *Subject:* [Stoves] health impact?
>
>  Hi everyone,
>
> A big confession: having tinkered with stoves for years, I never actually
> looked into the numbers of stove health impacts. I'm trying to fix that,
> and I hope you can help!
>
> I mean, yes, I can wave my hands about PM and CO and four million deaths!
>
> But how many deaths (or DALYs) do you avert per stove? Or per 10,000
> stoves? Or per 100,000,000?
>
> I thought it would be an easy question to answer, but it's turning out to
> be quite tricky to even ballpark.
>
> Here is one interesting source. This is from the very recent webinar on
> Kirk Smith's HAPIT tool.
>
> http://www.cleancookstoves.org/resources_files/hapit-results-rwanda.pdf
>
> This report considers 25,000 households.
> If you provide all of those households a rocket stove, you save only 0.75
> lives per year.
>
> If you take the GACC's target 100,000,000 households, that would mean
>
> 0.75/25000*100000000 = *3,000 lives saved* worldwide annually.
>
> What am I missing there? This seems so small.
>
> Some speculation:
>
> Kirk Smith mentions in the HAPIT webinar that even a small amount of PM2.5
> is still harmful. Perhaps biomass stoves just don't get the number low
> enough?
>
> I think this would fit with the chart in the linked PDF that shows that
> stoves only reduce deaths by <5% for indoor air pollution. A few times in
> the HAPIT webinar, they mention "a lot of lives are still left on the
> table."
>
> This also seems to agree with something I found in Christian L'Orange's
> dissertation:
>
> http://digitool.library.colostate.edu///exlibris/dtl/d3_1/apache_media/L2V4bGlicmlzL2R0bC9kM18xL2FwYWNoZV9tZWRpYS8yNDYyOTQ=.pdf
>
> Figure 33 shows that Envirofit G3300 stoves only have a 3% (or so) impact
> on "Adjusted Relative Risk" (of death)
>
>
> Please do not worry about hurting my feelings in correcting these numbers.
> Am I thinking about this the wrong way around? Have I punched the numbers
> in incorrectly?
>
> Also, I would be very interested to read more good papers on health
> impacts for stoves. It is all really quite interesting work. I feel bad
> that I didn't look at it sooner.
>
> Best,
>
>  Marc Paré
>
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