Charlie,
Yes, thank you! I heard about it at 5:43pm today from my partner,
Victoria, who has been spearheading the Biochar Offset groups.
(http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475)
This is probably the most exciting news we have heard in a while and
it is fantastic. Also unexpected.
(It looks like it has been in the planning stages for a while, unknown
to most of us. (see: http://cleancookstoves.org
<http://cleancookstoves.org/>))
I think that my presentations have been heard. But of course, it is
certainly NOT "my idea" and I am /*not*/ the only one, since there has
been a very large and active [stoves] group around for years:
http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_listserv.repp.org
(The archives go all the way back to 1993. (That is 17 years ago!) It
took this long to actually gain this much traction. It all started with
"stove guru *Tom Reed*" (www.woodgas.com) and his students like Dr. Paul
Anderson and his counterpart in Europe (Paal Wendelbo, who impressed us
all last year when he won the annual "Dr. Kirk Smith Cat Pee Award" for
most impressive performance at unbelievably low emissions during "Stove
Camp", which now takes place every year in Oregon), and Dean Still,
Lanny Hensen, Peter Scott
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/21/091221fa_fact_bilger#ixzz0a5XAjzI0>
(in Uganda) and Richard Stanley at the "/*Legacy Foundation*/"
(http://www.legacyfound.org/)... which works with and funds
organizations <http://www.legacyfound.org/store/pages.php?pageid=10>
like the /*Approvecho Institute*/, /*Engineers without Borders*/ and
many others including places like Virgunga National Park in the Congo...)
(I first heard about "stoves" and the health issues surrounding it years
ago when I met someone at a Green Party of Ontario event up in Barrie
who was doing work in Rural Guatemala with this group:
http://www.guatemalastoveproject.org/. They are based in Perth, Ontario
and have been doing yearly projects building masonry "rocket stoves".)
We are all very excited that this announcement by the Clinton's,
which means this issue of cookstoves is finally getting the attention it
deserves, of course. It has enormous repercussions not only for the
climate and energy and for forests (reduced pressures) but also on
health and women's and children's issues -- and if we can promote
/*Biochar */stoves [gasifiers] we could also have significant positive
effects on soil degradation, desertification, water issues and food
security.
You can see Hillary in a Live video making the actual announcement on
this site:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-21/2010-clinton-global-initiative-blog/3/?cid=topic:featured1
Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist
Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)
www.biochar-consulting.ca
603-48 Suncrest Blvd, Thornhill, ON, Canada
905-707-8754; 647-886-8754 (cell)
Skype: lloyd.helferty
Steering Committee member, Canadian Biochar Initiative
President, Co-founder& CBI Liaison, Biochar-Ontario
Advisory Committee Member, IBI
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1404717
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42237506675
http://groups.google.com/group/biochar-ontario
http://www.meetup.com/biocharontario/
http://grassrootsintelligence.blogspot.com
www.biochar.ca
Biochar Offsets Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2446475
On 9/21/2010 9:57 PM, Charlie Halpern-Hamu wrote:
Hi Lloyd,
I'm assuming you know about this.
It looks similar to your idea,
but only biomass without the biochar aspect.
http://treehugger.com/files/2010/09/u-s-50-million-pledge-cleaner-cookstoves-win-for-women-forests-climate.php
http://treehugger.com/files/2008/07/new-biomass-cookstoves-reduce-indoor-air-pollution-fuel-usage.php
Charlie
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