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Welcome to Boiling Point number 55, which is now available to read on the website of the HEDON Household Energy Network. This issue of Boiling Point addresses the theme of "Monitoring and Evaluation" and as well as the usual great articles we've changed the format a little and introduced two new features - a case study and a toolkit.

Read it online here: www.hedon.info/BoilingPoint55-June2008

The journal is produced by Eco Ltd with financial and editorial support from Practical Action and GTZ. This issue is also kindly supported by GVEP International.

==SYNOPSIS==
The theme of this edition is the effective Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of household energy projects. While often neglected, M&E is a critical component of any project as it allows a practitioner to measure the success of an intervention, whether in technical, social, economic, environmental or political terms, so that they can learn from the indicator results to improve future work.

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Architecture for Humanity, editors, October 19, 2007

The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than three billion people—nearly half the world's population—do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded.

Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, often against great odds.

Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world.

28.06.2006
Today CEDESOL signed a contract with the GTZ for the first 1,000 improved stoves in their project titled “Stoves for a Better Life: Implementation of a Strategy using Ecological and Improved Stoves for Residences.”

Design Principles for Wood Burning Cook Stoves, Aprovecho Research Center, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, Shell Foundation, June 2005 (1MB pdf)

Ten Design Principles for Wood Burning Stoves (pdf), Larry Winiarski, Dean Still, Aprovecho, August 2005 (Other Translations Welcome!)