[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program (Karin Troncoso)

[cornelio torrijos]

Hi Kevin and other stovers,

In the story of Aladdin, a man went out in the streets crying out: "New
lamps for old."
Some men and women after developing new stoves and want to go to the city
and rural village streets to cry out: "New stoves for old."

But who can field and pay the salaries of a thousand salesmen/saleswomen go
out and say "New and improved stoves for old."

One artisan in a village might market an improved "new and better stove" for
his own subsistence in his own area of a few kilometers.

Empower a thousand local artisans by arming them with comics type catalogue
of good/better stoves?

Cornel



On 3/11/07, Kevin Chisholm <kchisholm at ca.inter.net> wrote:
>
> Dear Crispin
>
> What would you think about "A Billion Clean Stoves"?
>
> That deals with your relevant comments about "cook stove", and it also
> incorporates Cornelio's very important observations about "clean".
>
> What woman, in the entire world, would object to having a clean stove?
>
> Most "improved stoves" are better than a three stone fire, so that
> phrase doesn't really tell very much. However, "clean" is a powerful
> descriptor that sets a "clean stove" apart from most existing stoves
> that should be upgraded.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Kevin
>
> Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> > Dear Tom
> >
> > I asked for various understandings.  The identical word appears in
> Afrikaans
> > (kookstoov, pronounced koo-uk stoo-uf) so for a very limited number of
> > people it would be understood immediately.  All others agree that in
> English
> > cooking stove is the immediately understood version.
> >
> > In German the 'koch herd' is very similar to the American
> cookstove.  Maybe
> > they are related.
> >
> > I don't have strong bias on this, it just should be something people
> > understand.  Is there perhaps any need at all to mention
> cooking?  Around
> > here people are not really using stoves for much else.  Yes they use
> them
> > for space heating, but there is no differentiation between a 'heating
> stove'
> > and a 'cooking stove'.  They are just stoves.
> >
> > Again to the German, a 'herd' (pronounced herrt') is always for cooking.
> > Even in Afrikaans, a stoov is for cooking, even if it sometimes used for
> > entertainment and heating.
> >
> > I fell that 'improved stove' might carry more information in only two
> words.
> >
> > Regards
> > Crispin
> >
> >
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