BioEnergy Lists: Biomass Cooking Stoves

Ashden Energy Champion Award:
http://www.ashdenawards.org/international
Aprovecho Research Center and Shengzhou Stove Manufacturer, USA/China
Packing Stoves
Making affordable, efficient stoves for the masses

The Aprovecho Research Centre in the US and Shenghou Stove Manufacturers in China have pooled their rich experience and skills to produce a cheap, robust and efficient stove for mass production to developing countries. The stoves replace dirty and polluting kerosene and open fires saving up to 50 percent of fuel wood and reducing 70 percent of dangerous emissions. SSM has sold over 60,000 stoves since 2007, producing them at a rate of 12,000 stoves a month and selling them to distributers. The main customer is Envirofit International, which markets stoves in India supported by the Shell Foundation. Other customers are in South Africa, Tanzania, Madagascar, Argentina and Chile.

Here is an emergency solar cooker that is made from a cardboard box, aluminum foil, and some glue. Simple, but effective design in order to cook using solar energy.

Dear Friends,
In case you haven’t already heard the news, it is with great excitement that I announce TWP as the 2008 winner of the US$1 million Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability! Along with National Director Richard Fox and TWP Board members, I was honored to accept the prestigious Prize at the 2009 International Economic Forum of the Americas (Conference de Montreal) in Montreal last week.

Everyone at TWP is absolutely thankful, delighted and overwhelmed with gratitude at being the 2008 Rio Tinto Prize winner. Now, we have the opportunity to expand our life-changing improved cook stove and community reforestation programs in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti. In particular, we will use the Prize to leverage additional sources of funding, and increasingly share the work we are doing with other interested organizations. This is an historical moment for TWP!

Thank you for believing in our mission and supporting our efforts. Together, we have accomplished tremendous things over the past 11 years that benefit both people and the planet. We look forward to celebrating more successes with you in the future.

For additional information about the Rio Tinto Prize for Sustainability, please visit our website at www.treeswaterpeople.org or directly at http://treeswaterpeople.org/about/about_rio_tinto.htm.
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Yours for a sustainable tomorrow,

Stuart Conway
International Director
Stuart_Conway@mail.vresp.com

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The Belizean Justa Stove
A Step by Step Construction Guide in English and Spanish
Sebastian Africano for Trees water and People, February 2009

Attached are pdf files of the guides in english and Spanish.

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Biodigestores Familiares - Guia de Diseno y Manual de Instalacion
Jaimie Marti Herrero, Proagro/GTZ, Bolivia Noviembre 2008
Biodigestores de polietileno tubular de bajo costo para tropico, valle y antiplano

Biodigestor Familiar

Uso Eficiente de la Leña: El caso ECOFOGON de Nicaragua
María Engracia De Trinidad (prolena.renovable@sdnnic.org.ni), PROLEÑA,18 y 19 de Marzo, 2004

Ecofogon

La primera causa de consulta médica son las enfermedades respiratorias, de las cuales se conoce poco, pero generan alta morbimortalidad.

Informe Final: Estudio Validación del Ecofogón “Justa”
Prolena, ASOCIACIÓN PARA EL FOMENTO DENDROENERGÉTICO,Nicaracgua

Agencia de Servicios Informativos de Chiapas (ASICh): En cumplimiento a la Política Social del Gobierno de México, la Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL), delegación Chiapas, hizo entrega de 100 estufas ecológicas Onil, al igual mismo número de familias de Zinacantán, siendo este el primer municipio de la República Mexicana en recibir este beneficio.

Al respecto la delegada de la SEDESOL en el estado, Gloria Luna Ruiz, indicó que con ésta entrega se están beneficiando a 500 personas, señaló que el costo por estufa es de mil 365 pesos, además de que cada familia recibió una dotación de blocks para instalar sus fogones, con un recurso total por parte del gobierno federal de 143 mil 463 pesos.

Estufa Onil, Zinacantán Chiapas