[Stoves] A cookstoves grant from the Gates Foundation gets mixed reviews

Sujoy Chaudhury sujoy.chaudhury at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 01:56:31 CST 2017


Hi Doc

Thank you for posting the post. I particularly liked the leine *And yet,
until the world finds a way to get clean energy to the roughly 1.3 billion
people who lack it, cookstoves are too important to ignore."*

Regards
sujoy

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Stovers,
>
> Link below to a well-written and timely article about stoves, done be Marc
> Gunther, a professional journalist who has covered stove topics before.
> In time for our ETHOS conference (and for comments on this listserv.).
>
> Paul
>
> Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
> Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
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> Subject: Fwd: [New post] A cookstoves grant from the Gates Foundation
> gets mixed reviews
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:24:37 +0000
> From: Marc Gunther <marc.gunther at gmail.com> <marc.gunther at gmail.com>
> To: Marc Gunther <marc.gunther at gmail.com> <marc.gunther at gmail.com>
>
>
> Marc Gunther posted: " Nonprofits that make cookstoves for the global poor
> have not been blessed with an abundance of resources. So  you would think
> that the community of stovers, as they're known, would be pleased by a big
> infusion of money into the sector from the US govern"
> Respond to this post by replying above this line
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> New post on *Nonprofit Chronicles*
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/author/marcgunther/> A cookstoves grant
> from the Gates Foundation gets mixed reviews
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/2017/01/24/a-cookstoves-grant-from-the-gates-foundation-gets-mixed-reviews/> by
> Marc Gunther <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/author/marcgunther/>
>
> [image: gloliath_double_flameorange_ef_branded_shadow-600x336]
>
> An LPG cookstove, from Envirofit
>
> Nonprofits that make cookstoves for the global poor have not been blessed
> with an abundance of resources. So  you would think that the community of
> stovers, as they're known, would be pleased by a big infusion of money into
> the sector from the US government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
> <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/>. Nope.
>
> The National Institutes of Health (NIH) last fall announced
> <https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-contributes-global-effort-prevent-manage-lung-diseases>
> that, with support from the Gates Foundation, it will fund a $30.5
> million, multi-country, five-year study
> <https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9207315&icde=31563588&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC>
> to see if cookstoves that burn liquified petroleum gas (LPG) reduce deaths
> and illnesses, especially in women and children who suffer the greatest
> exposure. This is almost surely *the biggest single grant in the history
> of the sector*, and it sets the stage for further investments in
> cookstoves, if the study finds that cleaner LPG stoves deliver meaningful
> health benefits.
>
> A byproduct of crude oil or natural gas, LPG is made of propane or butane
> or both -- it's similar to the fuel that powers backyard gas grills in the
> U.S. -- and it's distributed in poor countries in 12kg cylinders. It's
> easier to get LPG to poor people living without electricity than it is
> build out a grid, says Michael Kelly, the deputy managing director of the
> World LPG Association. "It's a very good solution for countries that are
> rapidly developing," he told me. “You can essentially take a cylinder of
> natural gas and put it on a donkey and you can have clean energy anywhere.”
>
> Well, sure, clean energy in the sense that LPG burns cleanly and thus
> shouldn't, if used properly, contribute to the household air pollution that
> causes more than 4 million premature deaths each year, according to the
> World Health Organization (WHO) <http://www.who.int/indoorair/en/>. Then
> again, it's not truly clean because LPG, like all fossil fuels, generates
> CO2 emissions that threaten the health of the planet and its inhabitants by
> contributing to climate change.
>
> That's one reason why some stovers are underwhelmed by the NIH-Gates LPG
> study. Others say that it's clear that LPG stoves will deliver health
> benefits, if properly used, so why do a study? Still others worry that the
> NIH-Gates study could lead funders with deep pockets to favor LPG over
> cookstoves that burn biomass, i.e., wood, charcoal, dung or agricultural
> waste. The vast majority of cookstoves in poor countries burn biomass.
>
> So what should we make of the NIH-Gates grant?* As always, nothing is
> simple in the cookstove sector, which has an unfortunate history of
> promising more -- improved health! climate change mitigation! empowered
> women! local jobs! -- than it can deliver. And yet, until the world finds a
> way to get clean energy to the roughly 1.3 billion people who lack it,
> cookstoves are too important to ignore. *
>
> Read more of this post
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/2017/01/24/a-cookstoves-grant-from-the-gates-foundation-gets-mixed-reviews/#more-17822>
> *Marc Gunther <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/author/marcgunther/>* |
> January 24, 2017 at 10:02 am | Tags: Adam Creighton
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=adam-creighton>, Bill and Melinda
> Gates Foundation
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation>, Christa
> Roth <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=christa-roth>, Dr. Gail Rogers
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=dr-gail-rogers>, Inyenyeri
> <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=inyenyeri>, National Institutes of
> Health <http://nonprofitchronicles.com/?tag=national-institutes-of-health>,
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