ETHOS

ETHOS Conference, January 23-25, 2009
Mark Bryden, December 2008

All,

It's almost that time again time again. The ETHOS conference will be held January 23-25 in Kirkland, Washington. Kirkland is a suburb of Seattle.

The 2009 ETHOS Conference aims to expand its reach from previous annual meetings. We invite presentation, workshops, and discussion of technology in the developing world. Particularly those talks focused on heating and cooking stoves, design for developing communities, incineration of medical waste, and lighting. In addition we are hoping to sponsor a track on the topic of carbon credits in the developing world.

We encourage the participation of Southern partners, international stoves experts, and development specialists with field experience in the transfer of appropriate technologies.

Talks
Please submit a title and brief abstract of your proposed talk on or before January 1.

Preconference workshops
Friday, January 23 morning and afternoon are available for preconference workshops. Please contact me before December 15 if you wish to present a preconference workshop.

Other Activities
There are many formats (paper session, workshops, hands-on sessions, panels, one-on-one mentoring etc) that can present relevant information to our community. If you wish to organize one of these please contact me with the details before December 15.

Complete details about the conference can be found at http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ethos/conference.php.

Please contact me if you have any questions or want to discuss your ideas for the conference.

Mark
kmbryden@iastate.edu

Stove Camp Highlights
Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research Center, August 2008
Aprovecho Stove Camp
Greetings Stove Campers!

I hope you are all well, back in your corners of the world.

At long last, the summary and data from stove camp is available, including:
*An attached .pdf of the results and highlights of camp.
*All of the presentations and resources posted on our website at: http://www.aprovecho.org/web-content/publications/publications.html
*Many photos are also uploaded on picasa at http://picasaweb.google.com/aproresearch

Thanks for making Stove Camp 2008 a great success, and we hope to see you in the future!

With best wishes,
Nordica
--
Mrs. Nordica MacCarty
Laboratory Manager, Mechanical Engineer
Aprovecho Research Center
www.aprovecho.org
541-767-0287 Oregon, USA
nordica.maccarty@gmail.com

ETHOS 2008 Conference
Charlie Sellers, Improved Biomass Stoves, February 3, 2008

See Charlie Seller's report on ETHOS 2008
http://improvedstoves.blogspot.com/2008/02/ethos-2008-conference.html

ETHOS 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA Jan 26-28, 2007

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott, Larry Winiarski and Charlie Sellers Test Tom Reed's Woodgas Stove with a Combustion Analyzer.

ETHOS 2007 in Seattle was a stimulating and inspiring event. Many thanks to the ETHOS executive committe for organizing it and to the 120 attendees, some who dragged stoves on airplanes to the event. There were many high points during three (for some four) days of meetings which I am sure will be discussed in these forums and on the web for weeks to come. To list a few:

Summary of Aprovecho’s Summer Stove Camp, 2006
By Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, September 6, 2006