Envirofit Quarterly - Spring 2010
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- The importance of awareness, standards & community
- Envirofit India sales & partnerships excelling
- Shell Foundation IAP awareness-raising campaign
- US Ambassador Timothy Roemer visits Envirofit India
- Microfinance partnerships help address the three big "A's"
- Soaring global awareness of IAP & cookstoves
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Envirofit Quarterly - Winter 2010
01/28/2010===================================
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- 100,000 Cookstoves Sold!
- Indoor Air Pollution Crisis Grows
- New Products Meet Vast Market Potential
- Keep Up with Envirofit
- Please Help Us Expand
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Envirofit Co-Founders Honored with Colorado State University Top Alumni Award
04/15/2010Envirofit Co-Founders Honored with William E. Morgan Alumni Achievement Award, Colorado State University Alumni Assoc's top Award.
U.S. Ambassador visits Envirofit India
02/18/2010Press Release For Immediate Publication
• Purpose of visit to plan strategic initiatives with Envirofit to adopt Clean Cookstove Standards & to help the creation and deployment of a "Government-Accredited Clean Cookstove" seal of approval
• Visit to help drive awareness about Indoor Air Pollution and Envirofit's market based solutions18th February 2010, Bangalore, India: U.S. Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer today visited the premises of Envirofit India - a Bangalore-based enterprise which has developed and is selling a range of fuel efficient cookstoves throughout India. During the visit, Ambassador Roemer viewed the demonstration of fuel efficient cookstoves and interacted with end users.
Getting the right stoves into homes that need them most
02/18/2010In countries all over the world, people cook their daily meals over smoky, sooty, and poorly ventilated traditional wood or biomass cook stoves - ‘chulas' in India... I am deeply concerned about the harmful effects of indoor air pollution on the health and well-being of men, women, and children, as well as on our environment... Cook stove technology has improved greatly over the years but there are many obstacles in getting the right stoves into the homes of those who need them most.... That is why I heartily embraced the recent announcement that the ministry of new and renewable energy would be introducing a bold new ‘National Biomass Cook Stove Initiative.' This ambitious new program can lead the way to a solution, not only for the citizens of India but for others at risk around the world.
The stove that won’t kill the world’s poor
02/14/2010NEARLY half the world's population relies on crude open-fire stoves. They produce hundreds of millions of tonnes of climate-damaging carbon dioxide and are often lethal to their users. According to the World Health Organisation, a person dies every 20 seconds from illnesses brought on by inhaling the toxins in the soot from wood, animal dung or other detritus that serves as fuel.
A company funded by the charitable arm of Royal Dutch Shell, the oil giant, has developed a cheap and efficient stove that it says could save carbon and lives. Envirofit, a spinout from Colorado [State University], claims that its $20 (£13) stoves cut smoke and toxic emissions by 80%, and halve the amount of fuel that is needed. It aims to sell 10m in the developing world over the next five years.
Devising the stove that could save the world
12/15/2009About half the worlds population cooks with gas, oil, or electricity, while the other half burns wood, dung, coal, or other solid fuels. As global temperatures have risen, the smoke from Third World kitchens has been upgraded from a local to a universal threat. The average cooking fire produces about as much carbon dioxide as a car, and a great deal more soot, or black carbon. Cleaning up these emissions may be the fastest, cheapest way to cool the planet.
Small Energy-Saving Steps Can Make Big Strides
11/27/2009High-Tech Solutions Can Help Lower Consumption, but Researchers See Faster Progress in Low-Tech Measures; Think Cook Stoves
Strong action will save millions of lives, improve health of billions
12/01/2009"Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century." So concluded a Lancet-UCL Commission earlier this year. Kirk R. Smith, professor of global environmental health at UC Berkeley and lead author of the paper, said: Combustion-related air pollution is estimated to be responsible for nearly 2.5 million premature deaths annually around the world and also for a significant portion of greenhouse warming. These studies provide the kind of concrete information needed to choose actions that efficiently reduce this health burden as well as reduce the threat of climate change.
Envirofit International and Colorado State University Receive International Design Award
07/29/2009The cookstove design and development teams at Envirofit International and the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab (EECL) at Colorado State University have won a Bronze IDEA for Envirofit's clean cookstove in the Ecodesign category in the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards. The Bronze International Design Excellence Award is shared with the industrial design groups Red Ingot LLC and Sector 7 Studios, LLC.
