<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Very true Trevor: <div><br></div><div>The video quality is good and filmography excellent, but the story is rather depressing in lieu of not alternatives no highlites of options. Give a local fuel briquetter the 15 to 20% dust and scraps from just the selling station in the local markets and they can reduce raw demand for that charcoal by about 40% while reaching the same market populaiton. That and the potential for true bio char/biomass charcoal making: No one mention of these alternatives although ther is one short shot of a locally made oil drum kiln full of leaves & stems etc.......Seems a sad omission indeed but you know what: It does not really matter: The market for the existing alternatives can only rise as demand for charcoal rises and charcoal supply diminishes...</div><div><br></div><div>Pressing on,</div><div>R Stanley</div><div><a href="http://www.legacyfound.org">www.legacyfound.org</a></div><div>NW Obamaland</div><div> <br><div><div>On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Trevor Richards wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It seems from this video that fossil fuel is the great hope for saving the forests! Something wrong with this picture...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The Charcoal Project</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkimchaix@charcoalproject.org">jkimchaix@charcoalproject.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 25 August 2011 16:45<br>Subject: The Charcoal Project<br>To: <a href="mailto:febiochar@gmail.com">febiochar@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<a name="132001dc5626ca2a_1" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" href="http://www.charcoalproject.org/2011/08/study-charcoal-and-patterns-of-forest-degradation-in-tanzania/" target="_blank">Study: Charcoal and patterns of forest degradation in Tanzania</a>
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<span>Posted:</span> 24 Aug 2011 01:23 PM PDT</p>
<div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p>A study presented at the June symposium on charcoal organized in Arusha, Tanzania, finds that,</p><p>1. At current rates, no high value timber will be left in Tanzania's coastal forest in 37 years.</p><p>2. The Tanzanian government lost $53 million USD in 2005. This is due to the fact that 96% of the timber harvest was undeclared.</p><p>3. China imports 10 times more timber from Tanzania that total declared imports.</p>
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<div style="margin: 0pt; font-family: Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif; line-height: 140%; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p>Dar es Salaam consumes the equivalent of 16 olympic pools in charcoal every day. This figure is increasing daily as rural populations migrate to urban centers. At $350 million per year, charcoal is big business, too.</p><p>This great video produced by the World Bank last year (2010) lays out the issue in a way that is well-documented and visually compelling.</p>
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