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Bangladesh sees surge in solar energy

As costs fall and incomes rise, power-hungry Bangladesh is seeing a surge in the adaptation home solar energy systems. Last year, close to 40,000 units a month were installed on average across the country; this year installations have surged to 55,000 a month. Read more here.

August 8, 2012

A small cookstove pilot in slums in Hyderabad

While the slums in Hyderabad may not look as dilapidated as those in Mumbai, access to cooking fuel is quite dismal. People still use firewood, which gives out black acrid smoke. Sometimes without the wood, they even use plastics and trash to make a fire. An economist from Berlin’s Humbolt […]

August 8, 2012

What does clean cooking adoption take?

This post talks about the recent challenges faced in the adoption of cleaner cookstoves as well as their lowered efficacy in reducing IAP (Indoor Air Pollution) in real life settings as compared to lab settings. This particular post takes Bangladesh as testing ground and formulates three separate hypotheses to evaluate […]

August 8, 2012

First sustainable cooking facility opened in Mozambique

CleanStar Mozambique, an integrated food, energy, and forest protection business, has now opened what they call the world’s first sustainable cooking fuel facility near the Port of Beira. The biofuel plant produces ethanol from cassava (or mandioca), in an attempt to replace the country’s dependence on charcoal for energy. Read […]

August 8, 2012

Ghana: World Vision embarks on WASH campaign in schools, communities

World Vision, Ghana has embarked on a number of programmes in the Kassena Nankana West District aimed at improving the Waster, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) campaign and communities in the area. Read more here.

August 8, 2012

China: Significant disparities in disease from unsafe water and sanitation

In a study published in the August edition of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, researchers from Emory University reveal gaps in China’s tremendous progress towards providing safe water and adequate sanitation. Using data queried from multiple infectious disease surveillance systems provide the first estimates of the burden of […]

August 8, 2012

Pakistan: Poor drainage causes flooding in low-lying areas

Poor drainage and sanitation system, and constant rains which started early last weekend have led to low lying areas of Rawalpindi getting flooded. Read more here.

August 8, 2012

Learning from Haiti

The earthquake in Haiti left millions homeless, and one key factor that emerged from on field research is that proper housing is a must. However, proper housing without provisions for disease controlling factors would be no help. This post lists down ways in which affordably housing should be built in […]

August 8, 2012

Indonesia: Low health awareness deadly for children

Poor knowledge of basic healthcare and lack of sanitation are contributing to the high number of deaths among children under the age of five in Indonesia. Among poorer households child deaths are more than three times higher than in richer ones. Read more here.