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NPR Profile of Aprovecho Stoves

by Jonas Ketterle on February 10, 2011

This NPR article presents an overview of the stoves program at Aprovecho in Oregon, and mentions the enormous scale required: a need for 500-600 million cookstoves is estimated. Fenix similarly is working hard to scale its energy solutions for the 1.5 billion without electricity.

Almost half the world still cooks its food with solid fuels, such as wood and charcoal.

The results are deforestation and black carbon, which contributes to global warming. And smoke-related disease kills an estimated 1.6 million people a year.

In war zones, the daily hunt for firewood can present families with terrible dilemmas, says Veronique Barbelet of the World Food Programme.

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