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Linkin Park and Hard Rock Café to help power the developing world

Linkin Park and the Hard Rock Café are partnering to launch a limited edition Signature Series of t-shirts. The proceeds from the sales of these will be directed towards Music for Relief and its Power the World initiative. This initiative will help people in developing countries purchase clean cookstoves for […]

September 19, 2013

Aviva launches program to improve lives of 200,000

Aviva is UK’s largest insurer. It recently partnered with ClimateCare to offset its carbon emissions through ClimateCare’s “Climate and Development’ program. This program involves carbon offsetting through usage of clean cookstoves in rural areas of India. Read more here.

September 19, 2013

Kenya: Locally made clean cookstoves rolled out

Burn Manufacturing are in the news for rolling out their ‘Burn’ stoves, special in the way that they are highly efficient and locally made. The stoves are targeted at the charcoal consuming population in Kenya, and runs on charcoal. Read more here.

September 19, 2013

First of its kind biomass stove production in sub-Saharan Africa

Institutional Stove Solutions, or InStove has opened its new “factory in a box” manufacturing unit in Afikpo in Nigeria last month. The non-profit commercial biomass stove manufacturer says it’s the first organization to establish such a production facility in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more here.

September 19, 2013

India: Greenway Grameen Infra launches new stoves with attractive payment scheme, finds rural Karnataka receptive

Greenway Grameen Infra recently launched its new product – a clean cookstove. In a market that is still not phenomenally successful in boosting clean cookstove sales despite obvious benefits, the launch of the stove seems fairly successful. The stove is worth INR 1299, and is available to households for 25 […]

September 19, 2013

Zambia: A new stove to eliminate use of charcoal

The rate of deforestation in Zambia is alarming. The country loses 650,000 to 700,000 acres of its 125,000 million acres of forest each year. One of the major drivers is charcoal production for usage as fuel in traditional stoves. A new start-up, Emerging Cooking Solutions is looking to tackle this […]

September 19, 2013

India: 25 years of experimentation result in a kiln developed to be a clean cookstove

V Jayaprakash always had a curiosity for kilns, and started out developing his first prototype from scratch about a quarter of a century back. Now, 25 years later, his smokeless kiln has garnered domestic and international acclaim. He is also the recipient of the National Innovation Foundation Award in 2012. […]

September 19, 2013

India: The Bharatlaxmi stove

Nandal village in Maharashtra is the beneficiary of the Bharatlaxmi stove, an invention of Indian scientist Priyadarshini Karve. She is the recipient of the 2002 Ashden Award, and is currently working with Pune-based Appropriate Rural Technologies Institute, helping institute her stove which reduces smoke by 80%, and fuel consumption by […]

September 19, 2013

Reducing soot and methane not as important for the environment as previously estimated

According to a new study by the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, cutting methane and soot (including replacing all wood and biomass burning stoves) is not as beneficial to the global warming reversal scenario as cutting the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. This is because […]