[Stoves] End of an era, start of a new?

[Stephen Joseph]

Dear Friends

I am sad to hear about the closure of Boiling point especially since our
team at Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) initiated the
publication I think in 1980 (to long ago to remember exactly).  I have so
many fond memories of the 5 years I spent as ITDG stove project manager
working with amazing people in Africa Asia and Latin America

It is interesting that the projects we were involved, local  women and men
played the pivotal role in the design and testing of the cook stoves. Our
team were just their to provide technical and financial assistance.

I was in Ethiopia 18 months ago and the charcoal and wood injera stove
developed by working with womens groups by a team of dedicated researchers,
engineers and entrepreneurs from both Ethiopia, Kenya (John Kimani),
Australia, UK in the 80/90's as part of a Gov Ethiopia/World Bank project
is still being manufactured and sold.

Also I would especially like to praise the great work that Max Kinyanjui
did in Kenya and Hashini Navaratna and her team in Sri Lanka,  Arianto
Sudjarwo and the team at Dian Desa, Madhu Sarin in India, Aroon Chomcharn
in Thailand, Amando Caceres and his team in Guatemala, Agnes Klingshirn for
her support from GTZ, Marilyn Hoskins in FAO but many more people.  The
80's was a very exciting time for cookstove development.

All the best for 2018 and lets hope that the many good cookstove projects
continue to succeed.

Regards
Stephen Joseph

On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Teddy,
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> Good quote. Boiling Point was indeed a great publication. It looks like
> the HEDON network has gone into the sunset after many good years. Are Grant
> and the E Co Ltd. Team still engaged in household energy in Southern
> Africa?
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> Tom
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> *From:* Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Cookswell Jikos
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 24, 2017 3:26 AM
> *To:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.
> org>; board at hedon.info
> *Subject:* [Stoves] End of an era, start of a new?
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> It was quite sad to read about the end of the Hedon Boiling Point
> publication (http://hedon.info/BP:Latest+Issue) I have thoroughly enjoyed
> reading them for many years. Hats off to all of the Boiling Point team for
> all your hard work over years and thank you very much. I hope it is indeed
> the start to a new era though and someone can find a way to keep it going.
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> One section caught my eye given some of the recent topics on this
> listserve;
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> *''In regards to the stove itself, there continues to be a somewhat
> unresolved trade-off between the technical quality of cookstoves and their
> acceptance and usability by cooks. As Crewe (1997:67) has previously
> argued, “cooks have not usually been involved in the development of the
> stove, except to test its ‘acceptability’ after a bout of technical work
> was complete” suggesting that there is still an unequal focus on the
> technocratic elements of ICS.*
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> *At the same time, the technical concerns (such as efficiency, emissions
> and safety) prioritised by donors and implementers of stove programmes are
> not necessarily shared by intended beneficiaries (Tronsco et al. 2007).
> Indeed, this continues to fuel the one-size fits all approach and in fact
> what you end up with is a technology that tries to do everything and is
> stripped of the functions that matter most to the cooks that use it (Figure
> 3).*
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> *However, there is growing acceptance in the literature to explore the
> ‘why’ questions that ultimately lend themselves back to end-user
> preferences (Beyene and Koch 2013; Kohlin et al. 2011). One such example
> can be taken from the Ashden Award winner: Greenway Grameen in India
> whereby they compromised on aspects of the technology that would have given
> lower emissions as it was not compatible with user’s needs. (Ray et al.
> n.d.).*
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> *At the same time, the market based approach prides itself on growing
> technological sophistication and as a result there is emphasis on testing
> ICS in order to harmonise quality standards and regulation in the sector''*
> There is an excellent cartoon next to it as well (link here
> <https://www.facebook.com/EastAfricanBiomassEnergyPortal/videos/1884080061921173/>
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> I will miss reading this publication as I have learned much from it over
> the years but I wish the best to all who were involved.
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> Teddy
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> Teddy Kinyanjui
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