[Stoves] Report on second day of University of Iowa's stove conference

nari phaltan nariphaltan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 09:00:25 CDT 2017


Ron. Very good and brief overview. I enjoy your notes from various
conferences.

All the best.

Anil


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On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net>
wrote:

> List:
>
> Again a short description of IU’s second stove symposium day.  The
> schedule is given at https://international.uiowa.edu/funding/faculty/
> projects/provosts-global-forum/women%E2%80%99s-health-
> environment-going-smoke/2017-provost%E2%80%99s
> <https://international.uiowa.edu/funding/faculty/projects/provosts-global-forum/women’s-health-environment-going-smoke/2017-provost’s>
>
> Bios for the speakers below are at:  https://international.uiowa.
> edu/funding/faculty/projects/provosts-global-forum/women%
> E2%80%99s-health-environment-going-smoke/2017-provost-0
> <https://international.uiowa.edu/funding/faculty/projects/provosts-global-forum/women’s-health-environment-going-smoke/2017-provost-0>;
>  these partly amplify my one line descriptions
>
> The format was very different from most conferences I attend, where
> speakers might only have 10 minutes.  Here the talks were about 25 minutes,
> with time for questions after.  A great deal of the benefit was having time
> to talk to the presenters during meals.
>
> I have some scratch notes on especially references that I need to look
> up.  Questions welcome.  Paul Anderson should be cc’d on any off-list
> questions to me.  One more full day today (Friday);  the below only on
> Thursday talks.
>
> Part I - AM
> Bradley Cramer -  IU Professor - overview on climate data - some on stoves
>
> Depthi Chatti -  Doctoral candidate at Yale, area Political ecology,
>  ethnology  (Berkeley grad Robert Bailis on her Committee)
> Jessica Pouchet -   Anthropologist studying Forest preservation issues in
> Tanzania;also ethnology format
> Meera Subramanian  Environmental Journalist from Boston area;  described
> stove aspects in her 2015 book (which I have ordered):
> “A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren
> Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka"
>
>
> Part II  PM
> Kirk Smith - (rescheduled) - Berkeley Public Health Professor (delayed
> arrival caused shift in scheduling);  partly on statistics of stove health
> issues, then more on details of major Governmental shift in India to LPG
> for the poorest.
> Peter Thorne - IU Health department chair - similar talk to Kirk’s;  some
> data on health aspects of mosquito repellant and incense - not as bad as
> cookstove hazards, but help put serious stove health problems in
> perspective.
> Kathleen O’Reilly  -  professor at Texas A&M;  on (horrible) sanitation
> issues for Indian urban women.  Also water - nothing on stoves
> Sailesh Rao - Philanthropist responsible for funding much of this IU stove
> work in Rajasthan; see more at his website:http://www.climatehealers.org/
> much of which he shortened for this talk.  The last part showed the huge
> global impact of cattle, which he argued needs to be replaced with a Vegan
> diet.  Emphasis on land degradation by ruminants.  Interesting use of terms
> caterpillar and butterfly respectively for projected climb and decline of
> atmospheric carbon.
>
> After dinner, we saw the movie “What the Health” - which Dr. Rao helped
> fund and produce.  This  in part on concerns about different NGO groups
> ignoring data on health virtues of Vegan diets.  In same spirit as
> “Cowspiracy”, which he also co-produced.  Both films stove-important for
> fuel supply reasons.  See https://www.indiegogo.
> com/projects/what-the-health-movie-film#/ and   http://www.
> whatthehealthfilm.com/
>
> Ron
>
>
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