<div dir="ltr">Hi Doc<div><br></div><div>Thank you for posting the post. I particularly liked the leine <strong style="font-size:12.8px">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."</strong></div><div><strong style="font-size:12.8px"><br></strong></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Regards</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">sujoy</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Paul Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu" target="_blank">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Stovers,<br>
<br>
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.).<br>
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Paul<br>
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Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
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<td> <span style="display:none!important"> 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
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cookstoves
grant from the
Gates
Foundation
gets
mixed reviews</a></h2>
<span style="color:#888">by
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<div id="m_-6799601745805941090attachment_17851" style="direction:ltr"><img src="https://nonprofitchroniclesdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/gloliath_double_flameorange_ef_branded_shadow-600x336.jpg?w=560" alt="gloliath_double_flameorange_ef_branded_shadow-600x336" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;display:block;margin:0 auto;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc" border="0">
<p>An LPG cookstove,
from Envirofit</p>
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<p>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 <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Bill
& Melinda
Gates Foundation</a>.
Nope.</p>
<p>The National
Institutes of
Health (NIH) last
fall <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-contributes-global-effort-prevent-manage-lung-diseases" target="_blank">announced</a>
that, with support
from the Gates
Foundation, it
will fund a <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9207315&icde=31563588&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC" target="_blank">$30.5
million,
multi-country,
five-year study</a>
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 <strong>the
biggest single
grant in the
history of the
sector</strong>,
and it sets the
stage for further
investments in
cookstoves, if the
study finds that
cleaner LPG stoves
deliver meaningful
health benefits.</p>
<p>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. <span>“You
can essentially
take a cylinder
of natural gas
and put it on a
donkey and you
can have clean
energy
anywhere.”</span></p>
<p>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,<a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.who.int/indoorair/en/" target="_blank">
according to the
World Health
Organization
(WHO)</a>. 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So what should we
make of the
NIH-Gates grant?<strong>
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. </strong></p>
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