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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear Richard</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Firstly, let me state: "It doesn't matter if it is right
or wrong. if it works, it is right." :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Having said that, I am puzzled that "yeast can
accelerate decomposition of agricultural residue." My understanding is that
yeast used in bread, or wine and beer making, simply "eats sugar to make alcohol
and CO2." </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Firstly, I would not think that "agricultural residue" has
much sugar content, unless it is perhaps fresh cuttings, fresh trimmings,
spoiled fruit, fruit peelings, fruit pits, etc. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Could you please elaborate further on the nature of the
"agricultural residue" to which yeast can be added beneficially?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thanks!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Kevin</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Stoves] easy fix new route
fwd...based on experience notarmchair advice...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Michael et al,
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<DIV>As a result of my horrific typing these days, I made gross mistake about
the ratio of dry powdered yeast to dry mass of biomass required
for ( accelerating the decomposition of) 50 briquettes
<DIV>The test read….with enough chopped biomass materials material for about
for 50 briquettes<B> (~715lbs dry weight)</B> which<BR>
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<DIV>It should have read, <B>7kgs or 15 lbs</B> dry weight…</DIV>
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<DIV>disculpame todos,</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard Stanley</DIV>
<DIV>Lankin,/ Coban/Altaverapaz, Guatemala</DIV>
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<DIV>Sorry for your hassles there. </DIV>
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<DIV>The trick to handling cardboard to rid it of the stinky and possibly
carcinogenic glue faction, is incredibly simple: My friends Mary and Francia
Kavita in Kenya told me the secret: Just wash it out -- just as anyone in a
traditional cooking situation does with beans rice other grains: You just pour
off/decant the dirty water !</DIV>
<DIV> You soak the cardboard stir it mash it around till it is thoroughly
saturated then decant the dirty water and add fresh water. Repeat if necessary
till the water runs clear...you want the fibers and combustibles remaining and
not the saturated dissolved glues and that seems to work pretty well.
Phd dissertation anyone ? </DIV>
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<DIV>On the issue of working in or near a dump, or with anything that is
locally construed as garbage I have always cautioned anyone
especially one who is just starting out with what is a new product like this ,
to become associated with waste or "garbage" esp. one who is just starting
out, for the very reason that you are being stigmatized. </DIV>
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<DIV>Your decision to shift over to biomass is a great idea but you need to
take it one step further. Use the consumers to drive the preference for the
resources: They know what burns best with what aromas for what kinds of
cooking and heating needs they have. Engage them to drive the blending process
with some incentive discounted briquettes etc etc,. And you have your first
consumers driving the market for you. </DIV>
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<DIV>As an ongoing income source for you: </DIV>
<DIV>• Aside from setting up the obvious; Aa production operation and I mean
large scale using such as the 20+ briquette-per-minute production
machine, like what we assisted in the design of in Haiti. Kevin
Adair's (E Fuego del Sol/Haiti) did all the work and fine tuning
of it though)… </DIV>
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<DIV>• If you have a hammer mill,you can be the supplier of the resource and
let others do the pressing of the resources which you blend bag and sell.
Thats one model: </DIV>
<DIV>• The other is to put the hammer mill on a trainer and haul it around to
the producers site as they do here in parts of Guatemala..</DIV>
<DIV>Don't give up.</DIV>
<DIV>This turn of events is an opportunity to reinvent your approach, stay in
touch.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Maya here have come up the use of--of all things-- ordinary bakers
yeast /verdadura / to rapidly accelerate decomposition of ag. residues.
(about one cup powder diluted in water can be mixed in with enough
chopped biomass materials material for about for 50 briquettes (~715lbs dry
weight) which adds about 1.5% to the cost but also decomposed materials about
five x faster (in 2 - 3 days here).</DIV>
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<DIV>If there is a need for the fuel you can solve their problem, and yours,
at the same time. Go out not inward…</DIV>
<DIV>Will be here to backstop you if you need it. </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Richard </DIV>
<DIV>Coban, Guatemala</DIV>
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<DIV>On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:25 AM, mtrevor wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Richard and Paul</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Good to keep watching the thrashing machine
develop.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I got them to make up some briquettes that were
not all paper.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sadly I was not there to watch and Ii do not know
the mix. I think</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>about 50- 75 % copara cake. They definitely do
not look like the card</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>board based one and the are softer. I am still
pushing for the inclusion of biomass but </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>am running ito resistance.
The </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>claim is we compost biomass and we
want to recycle cardboard. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A couple of strange asides. Because the composte
has a high percent of coconut</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>fronds at least some sources are saying it is
"bad" composte. I believe the issue here</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>is low fertility here means the frond composte is
not that high in nutrients. They are trying to offset that by including
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>fish scraps from the tuna loining plant.
</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Another aspect is that because the briquettes
are made at the "dump"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>they are dirty and "maybe" the cardboard has
toxic materials in it.. "Have they been tested?" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have point out the by increasing the biomass
content they can address several issues.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The fronds can burn and "bad" composte
avoided. High biomass mean less "Toxic" cardboard.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At the personal level things are shakey at best
and stink in general. After 28.5 years I was dismissed without
notice.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I literally do not know how my family is going to
survive. The lights may go out, food a problem. Children are going to
loose an education.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I found out such reputable groups as the Peace
Corps, Yale University Cornell University and the University of Hawaii did not
report</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>various employments in the past-- no US SS . Air
Marshall Islands here has shorted my social security here as well.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>One ironic vindication. I was terminated Friday
the 7th and by noon the 8th the aircraft was ground in a remorte location with
a DOE </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Team and the United States Ambassador. They did
not make it thru 24 hours without me, I havw been called back at least6
temporarily. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hey at least I have my stoves, briquettes, and
solar panels. I am also a good fisherman and there are breadfruit and
coconuts.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I lived that way in the past and so does half the
population any way.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At the Majuro Atoll Waste Company we have lost
our strongest supporter. My son Doan has pulled the plug and moved to
the USA.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>His wife needs heart surgery and seems to have
hooked into health services in Spokane some how. Doan however has moved
on to </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Fayetteville Arkansas He should
be starting a job at a waste management site there He hopes to get
experience and professional training </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and try to get an educationa as well
</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>to return back here later.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>From the sand pile </FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">Discussion of biomass cooking
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 15, 2012 8:51
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Stoves] [biochar] Vuthisa
qualifies for funding to kick-starta Biochar project [1 Attachment]</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Kobus,
<DIV>Same goes for us too !
<DIV>Congradulations and tut seins,</DIV>
<DIV>Richard Y Joyce </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.legacyfound.org/">www.legacyfound.org</A></DIV>
<DIV>Guatemala</DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>Congratulations, Kobus!<BR><BR> Sharing with
the Stoves List...<BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72"> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist
Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.biochar-consulting.ca/">www.biochar-consulting.ca</A>
48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada
905-707-8754
CELL: 647-886-8754
Skype: lloyd.helferty
Steering Committee coordinator
Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI)
President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario
National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative (CCFI)
Partner of Toronto Urban Ag Summit <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.urbanagsummit.org/">www.urbanagsummit.org</A>
Manager, Biochar Offsets Group:
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475</A>
Advisory Committee Member, IBI
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario">http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/">http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext href="http://www.biocharontario.ca/">http://www.biocharontario.ca</A>
<A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="http://www.biochar.ca/">www.biochar.ca</A>
"It is the path, more than the arrival at the destination, that is important"
- Gandhi</PRE>On 2012-12-14 8:09 AM, Vuthisa wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<P>Happy to announce that my company Vuthisa Technologies is one of 33
projects (out of an initial 252 applications), and 1 of 7 from South
Africa, chosen to receive funding from the Energy and Environment
Partnership (Eastern and Southern Africa), initiated by the lead donor:
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, co-donors include Austria (ADA),
United Kingdom (DFID), the EU Commission and the Nordic Development Fund.
The fund will kick-start the VUTHISA BIOCHAR INITIATIVE and is additional
to the Government funding we are set to receive from the Department of
Environmental Affairs (Working for Water) alien plant removal
programme. EEP will cover many setting up costs, but more
importantly cover feasibility trials of our 3-drum Biochar Retort.
<BR><BR>This is also good news for ALL members of this group as we will be
sharing our findings as we go along.<BR><BR>Now the work really
starts...<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Kobus<BR><BR>------- Original Message
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Outcome- List of Approved Projects<BR>Date: Thu,
13 Dec 2012 16:40:23 +0200<BR>From: Gershwin
Pududu<BR><BR><BR>Dear EEP Stakeholder,<BR><BR>We are delighted to present
to you the projects that were successful during the recently held
EEP Fifth Call for Proposals (CFPs). Please find attached hereto a list
(Annex 1) of the projects that were approved by the EEP Steering Committee
Meeting on the 27th November 2012.<BR><BR>A total of 252 project profiles
were submitted by project developers from our partner countries
during the 5th CFPs. Following an initial screening process conducted for
quality and completeness checking, 168 project profiles went through the
screening process successfully and these were further sent to national
coordinators as well as technical and business development
evaluators to access each project’s compliance to National policy
priorities, technical and economic viability respectively.
Pre-selected criteria, which are in line with the EEP’s CFPs Guidelines,
were used to perform these evaluations. Based on the combination of the
results of these three evaluations, the Steering Committee has approved 33
projects requesting a total of € 6,397,279 in EEP grant funding. The
approved list will also be available on our website soon; <A
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sending further communication to those of you whose projects have been
approved, to submit a full proposal within 4 weeks of receiving the Full
Proposal Guidelines. Due to the overwhelming number of profiles received,
we regrettably cannot send feedback to the applicants whose projects were
not successful during this round of Call for Proposals.<BR><BR>Many
thanks for your participation!<BR><BR>Yours in Development,<BR><BR>Kind
Regards,<BR><BR>Gershwin Pududu<BR><BR>Energy and Environment Partnership
with S&E Africa<BR><BR>Regional Coordination Office (RCO)<BR></P>
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<P></P>Michael et al, <BR><BR>As a result of my horrific typing these days, I
made gross mistake about the ratio of dry powdered yeast to dry
mass of biomass required for ( accelerating the decomposition of) 50
briquettes<BR>The test read….with enough chopped biomass materials material
for about for 50 briquettes (~715lbs dry weight) which<BR> <BR>It should
have read, 7kgs or 15 lbs dry weight…<BR><BR>disculpame todos,<BR><BR>Richard
Stanley<BR>Lankin,/ Coban/Altaverapaz,
Guatemala<BR><BR>----------------------------------<BR>Michael, <BR><BR>Sorry
for your hassles there. <BR><BR>The trick to handling cardboard to rid it of
the stinky and possibly carcinogenic glue faction, is incredibly simple: My
friends Mary and Francia Kavita in Kenya told me the secret: Just wash it out
-- just as anyone in a traditional cooking situation does with beans rice
other grains: You just pour off/decant the dirty water
!<BR> You soak the cardboard stir it mash it around till it is thoroughly
saturated then decant the dirty water and add fresh water. Repeat if necessary
till the water runs clear...you want the fibers and combustibles remaining and
not the saturated dissolved glues and that seems to work pretty well.
Phd dissertation anyone ? <BR><BR>On the issue of working in or near a dump,
or with anything that is locally construed as garbage I have
always cautioned anyone especially one who is just starting out with what is a
new product like this , to become associated with waste or "garbage" esp. one
who is just starting out, for the very reason that you are being
stigmatized. <BR><BR>Your decision to shift over to biomass is a great idea
but you need to take it one step further. Use the consumers to drive the
preference for the resources: They know what burns best with what aromas for
what kinds of cooking and heating needs they have. Engage them to drive the
blending process with some incentive discounted briquettes etc etc,. And you
have your first consumers driving the market for you. <BR><BR>As an ongoing
income source for you: <BR>• Aside from setting up the obvious; Aa production
operation and I mean large scale using such as the 20+
briquette-per-minute production machine, like what we assisted in
the design of in Haiti. Kevin Adair's (E Fuego del
Sol/Haiti) did all the work and fine tuning of it though)…
<BR> <BR><BR>
https://sites.google.com/a/elfuegodelsol.com/elfuego/<BR><BR><BR><BR>• If you
have a hammer mill,you can be the supplier of the resource and let others do
the pressing of the resources which you blend bag and sell. Thats one model:
<BR>• The other is to put the hammer mill on a trainer and haul it around to
the producers site as they do here in parts of Guatemala..<BR>Don't give
up.<BR>This turn of events is an opportunity to reinvent your approach, stay
in touch.<BR><BR>The Maya here have come up the use of--of all things--
ordinary bakers yeast /verdadura / to rapidly accelerate decomposition of ag.
residues. (about one cup powder diluted in water can be mixed in with
enough chopped biomass materials material for about for 50 briquettes (~715lbs
dry weight) which adds about 1.5% to the cost but also decomposed materials
about five x faster (in 2 - 3 days here).<BR><BR>If there is a need for
the fuel you can solve their problem, and yours, at the same time. Go out not
inward…<BR>Will be here to backstop you if you need it. <BR><BR>Richard
<BR>Coban, Guatemala<BR><BR><BR>On Dec 15, 2012, at 1:25 AM, mtrevor
wrote:<BR><BR>Richard and Paul<BR> <BR>Good to keep watching the
thrashing machine develop.<BR>I got them to make up some briquettes that were
not all paper.<BR>Sadly I was not there to watch and Ii do not know the mix. I
think<BR>about 50- 75 % copara cake. They definitely do not look like the
card<BR>board based one and the are softer. I am still pushing for the
inclusion of biomass but<BR>am running ito resistance. The claim is we
compost biomass and we want to recycle cardboard.<BR>A couple of strange
asides. Because the composte has a high percent of coconut<BR>fronds at least
some sources are saying it is "bad" composte. I believe the issue here<BR>is
low fertility here means the frond composte is not that high in nutrients.
They are trying to offset that by including<BR>fish scraps from the tuna
loining plant. Another aspect is that because the briquettes are made at the
"dump"<BR>they are dirty and "maybe" the cardboard has toxic materials in it..
"Have they been tested?" <BR>I have point out the by increasing the biomass
content they can address several issues.<BR>The fronds can burn and "bad"
composte avoided. High biomass mean less "Toxic" cardboard.<BR> <BR>At
the personal level things are shakey at best and stink in general. After 28.5
years I was dismissed without notice.<BR>I literally do not know how my family
is going to survive. The lights may go out, food a problem. Children are going
to loose an education.<BR>I found out such reputable groups as the Peace
Corps, Yale University Cornell University and the University of Hawaii did not
report<BR>various employments in the past-- no US SS . Air Marshall Islands
here has shorted my social security here as well.<BR>One ironic vindication. I
was terminated Friday the 7th and by noon the 8th the aircraft was ground in a
remorte location with a DOE<BR>Team and the United States Ambassador. They did
not make it thru 24 hours without me, I havw been called back at least6
temporarily.<BR>Hey at least I have my stoves, briquettes, and solar panels. I
am also a good fisherman and there are breadfruit and coconuts.<BR>I lived
that way in the past and so does half the population any way.<BR> <BR>At
the Majuro Atoll Waste Company we have lost our strongest supporter. My
son Doan has pulled the plug and moved to the USA.<BR>His wife needs heart
surgery and seems to have hooked into health services in Spokane some
how. Doan however has moved on to<BR>Fayetteville Arkansas He
should be starting a job at a waste management site there He hopes to get
experience and professional training<BR>and try to get an educationa as
well to return back here later.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>.
<BR> <BR>From the sand pile<BR> <BR> <BR>- Original Message
-----<BR>From: To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<BR>Sent: Saturday,
December 15, 2012 8:51 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [Stoves] [biochar] Vuthisa qualifies
for funding to kick-starta Biochar project [1
Attachment]<BR><BR>Kobus,<BR>Same goes for us too !<BR>Congradulations and tut
seins,<BR>Richard Y Joyce
<BR>www.legacyfound.org<BR>Guatemala<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Dec 14, 2012, at 8:46
AM, Lloyd Helferty wrote:<BR><BR>Congratulations, Kobus!<BR><BR> Sharing
with the Stoves List...<BR> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering
Technologist<BR> Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)<BR>
www.biochar-consulting.ca<BR> 48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON,
Canada<BR> 905-707-8754<BR> CELL:
647-886-8754<BR> Skype: lloyd.helferty<BR>
Steering Committee coordinator<BR> Canadian Biochar Initiative
(CBI)<BR> President, Co-founder & CBI Liaison,
Biochar-Ontario<BR> National Office, Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative
(CCFI)<BR> Partner of Toronto Urban Ag Summit www.urbanagsummit.org
<BR> Manager, Biochar Offsets
Group:<BR>
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475<BR> Advisory
Committee Member, IBI<BR>
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717<BR>
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675<BR>
http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario<BR>
http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/<BR>
http://www.biocharontario.ca<BR> www.biochar.ca<BR><BR>"It is the
path, more than the arrival at the destination, that is important"<BR> -
Gandhi<BR>On 2012-12-14 8:09 AM, Vuthisa wrote:<BR>> [Attachment(s) from
Vuthisa included below]<BR>> Happy to announce that my company Vuthisa
Technologies is one of 33 projects (out of an initial 252 applications), and 1
of 7 from South Africa, chosen to receive funding from the Energy and
Environment Partnership (Eastern and Southern Africa), initiated by the lead
donor: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, co-donors include Austria
(ADA), United Kingdom (DFID), the EU Commission and the Nordic Development
Fund. The fund will kick-start the VUTHISA BIOCHAR INITIATIVE and is
additional to the Government funding we are set to receive from the Department
of Environmental Affairs (Working for Water) alien plant removal
programme. EEP will cover many setting up costs, but more importantly
cover feasibility trials of our 3-drum Biochar Retort. <BR>> <BR>> This
is also good news for ALL members of this group as we will be sharing our
findings as we go along.<BR>> <BR>> Now the work really
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Fifth Call for Proposals Outcome- List of Approved Projects<BR>>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:40:23 +0200<BR>>
From: Gershwin Pududu<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Dear
EEP Stakeholder,<BR>> <BR>> We are delighted to present to you the
projects that were successful during the recently held EEP Fifth Call
for Proposals (CFPs). Please find attached hereto a list (Annex 1) of the
projects that were approved by the EEP Steering Committee Meeting on the 27th
November 2012.<BR>> <BR>> A total of 252 project profiles were submitted
by project developers from our partner countries during the 5th CFPs.
Following an initial screening process conducted for quality and completeness
checking, 168 project profiles went through the screening process successfully
and these were further sent to national coordinators as well as
technical and business development evaluators to access each project’s
compliance to National policy priorities, technical and economic
viability respectively. Pre-selected criteria, which are in line with
the EEP’s CFPs Guidelines, were used to perform these evaluations. Based on
the combination of the results of these three evaluations, the Steering
Committee has approved 33 projects requesting a total of € 6,397,279 in EEP
grant funding. The approved list will also be available on our website soon;
www.eepafrica.org .<BR>> <BR>> We will soon be sending further
communication to those of you whose projects have been approved, to submit a
full proposal within 4 weeks of receiving the Full Proposal Guidelines. Due to
the overwhelming number of profiles received, we regrettably cannot send
feedback to the applicants whose projects were not successful during this
round of Call for Proposals.<BR>> <BR>> Many thanks for your
participation!<BR>> <BR>> Yours in Development,<BR>> <BR>> Kind
Regards,<BR>> <BR>> Gershwin Pududu<BR>> <BR>> Energy and
Environment Partnership with S&E Africa<BR>> <BR>> Regional
Coordination Office (RCO)<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> <BR><BR>>
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