RAIN OR SHINE! StoveTec Teach-In and Cook Out: Pro-Poor Innovations in Clean, Efficient Cooking + Hot Dogs. With Ben West, Aprovecho Research Center.//

June 1, 2010
7:00 pmto8:30 pm

Each year 1.6 million people – 85% of which are women and children – die from inhaling the smoke emitted by open fires or unimproved cook stoves. At the same time, traditional practices of collecting biomass fuels for cooking – carried out almost universally by women- is a time-consuming task that displaces education and other opportunities for empowerment, and, in the long-term, frequently contributes to unsustainable levels of deforestation and erosion.

StoveTec is an award-winning, high efficiency cookstove that reduces harmful emissions by 70%, while increasing fuel-efficiency by 50%. The design was created by the Oregon-based Aprovecho Research Center (ARC), and over 70,000 stoves have been shipped internationally over the past two years to countries including India, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Chile, Argentina, the Marshall Islands, and Haiti.

Join us for an evening presentation on StoveTec’s design, goals and impacts by project manager Ben West.

Following the discussion, the stoves will be put to immediate good use: grilling hot dogs and veggie dogs on the Solar One stage, over beer and other refreshments.


Posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010 at 4:08 pm | Tagged in Solar One Events | posted by SolarOne

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