[Stoves] Ashden Award Finalists Announced

[Tom Miles]

See http://www.ashdenawards.org/press_release_05_2006 for the 2006 Ashden
Award finalists announced 30 May 2006. 
 
See http://www.ashdenawards.org/informe_de_prensa06 in Spanish
 
Among the finalists are organizations that contribute to these discussions.
Congratulations to Aprovecho/ProBec, ARTI and GIRA. 
 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_southern_africa> 2006
Finalists:

Aprovecho/ProBEC, southern Africa, who have developed and distributed 1,500
stoves to institutions across southern Africa that are uniquely designed to
dramatically cut fuel wood use and reduce indoor air pollution.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_india_arti> ARTI, India, for
the design of a revolutionary biogas system that generates gas for cooking
from food waste and other sugary and starchy material.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_cambodia> GERES, Cambodia, for
working with local potters to redesign the traditional charcoal stove so
that it uses around a quarter less fuel, cooks more cleanly and quickly, and
lasts longer.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_mexico> GIRA, Mexico, who have
designed and installed 3,500 stoves in kitchens in the Mexican highlands
that cut fuel wood use by up to 60% and indoor air pollution by 70%.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_bangladesh> Grameen Shakti,
Bangladesh, for installing 65,000 solar systems in rural homes across
Bangladesh and for making them affordable through micro-credit schemes.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_india_idei> International
Development Enterprises, India, who have been behind the manufacture and
distribution of 510,000 treadle pumps - a simple device that uses human
power to pump water from wells, streams and lakes up onto the fields
allowing farmers to grow crops all year round.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_tanzania> Mwanza Rural Housing
Programme, Tanzania, for devising a way to fire bricks for house
construction using readily available crop waste instead of wood and for
training hundreds of local people to use this technology. 

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_bangladesh> Rahimafrooz
Batteries Ltd, Bangladesh, who have supplied batteries for the thousands of
solar systems in Bangladesh and have installed 25,000 of these systems in
rural homes.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_sri_lanka> SEEDS, Sri Lanka
for bringing solar power to 51,000 homes across Sri Lanka and for making it
affordable through effective micro-credit schemes. 

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_china> Shaanxi Mothers, China,
who have overseen the installation of around 1,300 biogas plants that use a
combination of pig waste and human waste to produce gas for farming
households.

 <http://www.ashdenawards.org/media_summary06_india_vk_nardep>
Vivekanandra-NARDEP, India, for developing an affordable biogas plant made
out of bamboo and devising innovative ways to turn the slurry into an
effective fertiliser.

 

Tom Miles

www.bioenergylists.org