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<td>business sickness</td>
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<td>Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:27:07 -0400</td>
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<td>Lange <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rbtvl@aol.com"><rbtvl@aol.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a></td>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;">No,
you are not wrong about business sickness.<br>
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powerful institutions and governments are quick to subsidize
corporations with loan guarantees, tax breaks, initial
investments that need not be repaid etc.<br>
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but if you want to help consumers with a subsidy you are
"creating dependence" or "undermining sustainability". such
nonsense.<br>
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we have a wonderful stove. we have 100% sustained adoption.
we have 250 women doing stove installations. I am trying to
re-design to get production cost down. now.....$45 for the
full stove and another $15 to the women who install it. too
much for poor Maasai women to pay. so we help them and charge
them less. we also do solar electrical work and help women
start businesses so we are not just stove people. and with
overheads, each home improved costs about $100.<br>
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please see<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.internationalcollaborative.org">www.internationalcollaborative.org</a><br>
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I sat with Radha of the Global Alliance a few years ago and
said.<br>
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"a billions women can't afford the stove they need.<br>
we have three choices.<br>
we can leave them out<br>
we can sell them a stove they can afford that they will abandon<br>
we can subsidize their purchase.<br>
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we choose to subsicize their purchase."<br>
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she said essentially that the Global alliance had to establish
itself as "market based" and then maybe we can talk later. <br>
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our organization in the US and Tanzania might finally, after six
years, get the government to work with us. they love what we
do. but getting them to help fund is not so easy.<br>
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but we try. and maybe will succeed<br>
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bob lange 508 735 9176<br>
the Maasai Stoves and Solar Project.<br>
the ICSEE<br>
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