<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><div>Joshua. Cc Erin and list<br><br> Yours are by far the most artistic stoves I have seen. Please compliment the artists. </div><div><br></div><div> This is also to ask anyone getting near Manila to bring some back for resale in the US. Or </div><div>maybe Save The Children can help.</div><div><br></div><div> I hope you and the Bulacan artists can do something similar for char-making stoves. (need a closed container with right-sized (plug-able) holes at the bottom and half-way up.)</div><div><br></div><div> Lastly, your (non-artistic) box in the last photo mentions the words char and pocket. Can you explain further?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks. Ron</div><div><br></div><div><br>On May 6, 2013, at 3:26 PM, "Erin Rasmussen" <<a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com">erin@trmiles.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm sure you'll love Jed's stoves, the photos were too large to email to the list, so I posted them here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.stoves.bioenergylists.org/Holey-Roket-2013">http://www.stoves.bioenergylists.org/Holey-Roket-2013</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">his contact info: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Joshua Guinto [mailto:jed.building.bridges@gmail.com]</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">from his email: <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">HI Erin<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Excuse me for joining the subject. How about these stoves? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The first two stoves in the attached i already am making since the past years. And recently, i have been teaching women and soon their husbands to also make their rocket stoves here in the province of Bulacan under a disaster preparedness program by the Save the Children International. They also make their own designs of flowers, castle towers, chess characters, and faces into their stoves. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">the drawing in the third attachment is a prototype in process. It is a Holey Rocket Stove with a char pocket on the side and a box as a platform. I hope to finish it in the coming weeks. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jed <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2013/5/3 Erin Rasmussen <<a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com" target="_blank">erin@trmiles.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi Christa, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We were talking at ETHOS about characteristics that make an improved stove, a sexy, aspirational stove, a stove that women actually want, and use and cherish, and beg to spend scarce resources to pay for. And I remember promising to ask you for a list of things that we should be thinking about when we make good stoves. So now it's several months later and I'm finally getting around to asking your for that list. :-) Is it in your presentation? I'd love to figure out some way to sort those qualities into my newer more improved way of presenting stoves.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">And question your colleague did that excellent graph of clean fuels with renewable energies (including wood) listed as superior to natural gas. Is that in the Energypedia? I have looked for it, but I have not found it. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Many thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Erin R. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com" target="_blank">erin@trmiles.com</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Stoves mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/" target="_blank">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Stoves mailing list</span><br><span></span><br><span>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address</span><br><span><a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page</span><br><span><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site:</span><br><span><a href="http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/">http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></div><div></div></div><div></div></div></body></html>