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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Nikhil,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the link. It’s a great example of the generosity and initiative that people on this list practice every day. It is good that GACC was in place to facilitate the work in Haiti that apparently launched the effort. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No thanks for hijacking the topic for your own agenda. As owner and host of the list I’ve had enough of hearing you repeat the same themes for almost a year. Go find another list to make your favorite complaints. <a name="_MailEndCompose"><o:p></o:p></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose'></span><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nikhil Desai<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 11, 2017 10:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Anil Rajvanshi <anilrajvanshi@gmail.com>; gasification@bioenergylists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Stoves] Energy in Puerto Rico : Puerto Rico Needs Our Help<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here an example of how a FEMA contract helped on the ground. <br><br><a href="https://www.eater.com/2017/11/10/16623204/world-central-kitchen-jose-andres-puerto-rico-haiti-houston">The Story of World Central Kitchen, the Nonprofit Serving Millions of Meals to Puerto Rico</a>, José Andrés's nonprofit aims to change the world “through the eyes of a chef” - Monica Burton Nov 10, 2017 <br><br>Not much detail, but I imagine LPG and diesel generators provided the energy. There is a fraudulent reference to GACC as a "UN foundation", but Chef Jose Andres surely knows more about cooking than TC-285 and WHO. <br><br>Eater.com stories are all about restaurants for the rich in rich cities, mostly in rich countries, but that only underscores the main point I first saw articulated in Anil Rajvanshi's proposal on "rural cafeterias" - the rich get attention on cooking and delivering food and beverages to the plates and cups, whereas the poor are trapped in stovers/WHO mythology of efficiencies, climate change, and "heath benefits" of "clean cookstoves". <br><br>The tragedy of poverties - the poor get served rich theories and fantasies of "international standards". I credit GACC for raising awareness about cooking, but blame it for the diverting monies to useless research and imperial dinners. <br><br><br>Nikhil<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>