TodayEco.com

31 May '12, 11pm

Sustainable Farming for Clean Cooking Fuel: The Quest to Kill Charcoal in Africa

Sustainable Farming for Clean Cooking Fuel: The Quest to Kill Charcoal in Africa

In Africa, charcoal is a formidable two-pronged scourge . Eighty percent of the continent's population uses the stuff to cook every day, and breathing in those emissions day in day out leaves millions with asthma, with respiratory sickness, or dead. Meanwhile, Africa is growing fast, and its booming population demands more and more fuel for cooking—so more and more forest gets hacked down to provide it. Charcoal for cooking is the big reason deforestation in Africa is speeding along at a rate twice the worldwide average. It's also around a $10 billion market. So that's the stage. Enter CleanStar Mozambique with a bona fide, potentially profit-making, Big Idea: Get Africa on track to ditch charcoal by replacing it with clean-burning biofuels refined from cassava, an indigenous, locally harvested crop. Now, I've reported on plenty of good-intentioned, Big Ideas aimed at impr...

Full article: http://www.treehugger.com/green-investments/sustainable-f...

Tweets

Bringing the Biofuel Cooking Stove to Africa

Bringing the Biofuel Cooking Stove to Africa

treehugger.com 01 Jun '12, 4am

This is the second installment of a two-part series on one company's effort to cut Africa's reliance on charcoal. Read par...

Join The Coriander Leaf Group..! We're looking ...

corianderleaf.com 01 Jun '12, 6am

We are constantly looking for great people to join our team. We welcome individuals with the passion for customer satisfac...

Can Mozambique be a model for sustainable food, fuel production?

Can Mozambique be a model for sustainable food,...

greenbiz.com 29 May '12, 5pm

What on earth is Novozymes , a $1.8-billion industrial biotechnology company headquartered in Denmark, doing in Mozambique...

Can lingerie be sexy, sustainable, *and* comfy?

Can lingerie be sexy, sustainable, *and* comfy?

ecouterre.com 31 May '12, 8pm

wants you to slip into something more comfortable and mean it. The New York City-based label offers a line of undergarment...

Organic Farming Helps Returning Soldiers Find Peace

Organic Farming Helps Returning Soldiers Find P...

care2.com 01 Jun '12, 3am

Soldiers returning from combat in the Middle East are faced with the difficult task of finding their place in civilian lif...

The Quest for a Universal Memory

spectrum.ieee.org 02 Jun '12, 4am

17 May 2012—Our smartphones and ultrathin laptops rely on a triumvirate of memory technologies—SRAM, DRAM, and flash—each ...

Jakatak69, Cooking With Jack, is YouTube’s On The Rise Winner for May: Here’s Why

Jakatak69, Cooking With Jack, is YouTube’s On T...

reelseo.com 01 Jun '12, 7pm

I want to first say thanks to YouTube... I am grateful for all the tools you have provided to help me grow my channel to w...

Does a sustainable community need a good bar? It helps! #smartgrowth #urbanplanning

Does a sustainable community need a good bar? I...

switchboard.nrdc.org 31 May '12, 12pm

My friend Eliot Allen first introduced me to the concept of neighborhood completeness: that the quality of a place is defi...

#vision2020EH Globetrotting City Planners Fuel ...

ecohomemagazine.com 06 Jun '12, 2pm

The May/June issue profiles Sam Rashkin, winner of The 2012 Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing ...

My Cooking Club | Story of Bing

My Cooking Club | Story of Bing

storyofbing.com 05 Jun '12, 6pm

Being able to spend alot time in the kitchen is one of the biggest privileges of a housewife. It’s my favourite part of my...

Sustainable Grilling: charcoal vs propane via @sharethis #fb

Sustainable Grilling: charcoal vs propane via @...

alternativeconsumer.com 29 May '12, 4pm

Grilling and pool parties are the hallmarks of summertime. Warm sunny early evenings provide the perfect background to gat...

@gbcaus launches new professional qualification...

gbca.org.au 13 Jun '12, 12pm

Green Star Accredited Professional (GSAP) – Communities qualification has been introduced to support the application of th...

Why it's time to follow Google, GE and Buffett on clean energy

Why it's time to follow Google, GE and Buffett ...

greenbiz.com 04 Jun '12, 12pm

Google is backing it. So is Warren Buffett, America's most-watched investor. GE, one of the world's biggest manufacturers,...