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  1. UNICEF and the Household Fuels Crisis

    Erik Eckholm The household fuels crisis is closely related to traditional UNICEF concerns such as family income, nutrition, and health.
    333.9 ECK

  2. Fuel-Saving Cookstoves

    Aprovecho Institute Our purpose in this manual is to emphasise not so much construction methods for specific stove models, but the whole complex question of how we can help poor people develop solutions to their problems, focussing on cookstoves. This requires an understanding of deforestation, declining crop...
    683.88 VIE

  3. Helping People in Poor Countries Develop Fuel-Saving Cookstoves

    Our purpose in this manual is to emphasize not so much construction methods for specific stove models, but the whole complex question of how we can help poor people develop solutions to their problems, focussing on cookstoves. This requires an understanding of deforestation, declining crop...
    641.5 GAT

  4. Double Drum Sawdust Stove

    Jeffrey L. Warluft An inexpensive home-made stove for burning loose sawdust is described. The stove, which is in common use in other parts of the world, can heat a room 20 feet square for 6 to 10 hours without tending. VITA Tech Bulletin 51029-BK
    697.22 WAR

  5. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

    Jeffrey D. Sachs A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top...
    339.4 SAC

  6. Working towards sustainable communites in Bohoc, Haiti: The introduction of fuel-efficient wood-burning cook stoves

    Steven Byler 38 pages, illustrated, photos
    683.88 BYL

  7. Lorena stoves: a manual for designing, building and testing low-cost wood-conserving cookstoves

    Ianto Evans et al Lorena stoves are low-cost, fuel-saving cookstoves, made of sand and clay. This book discusses the design of effieint, locally appropriate Lorena stoves, with examples from Guatemala, Indonesia, Senegal and the United States. It shows how to find and test soils, how to make lorena mix, and how to...
    687.88 EVA

  8. Sustainable Rural Bioenergy Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa - A Collection of Good Practices

    Yasuko Inoue (IRENA/JIRCAS), Joaquin Macuacua (National Directorate of Forestry, Mozambique / University of Amsterdam) and Miyuki Iiyama (ICRAF/JIRCAS) This collection aims to provide a reference for policy makers and practitioners working in areas related to bioenergy in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa. This encompasses those in the energy, agriculture, forestry, environment, finance and business sectors, among others, who are searching for...

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