Gaia Association, ethanol stoves for refugees - Ashden Award winner

This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/gaia08 Gaia Association won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2008.

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Refugees in Ethiopia, as in many countries, rely on fuelwood for cooking. Women who spend long hours collecting fuelwood outside refugee camps are frequently attacked, and there is extensive deforestation. The Gaia Association has provided ethanol-fuelled stoves to 1,780 refugee families, enabling clean, comfortable cooking and preventing wood use. The ethanol is produced from locally-available molasses, a sugar by-product which previously caused pollution. The Gaia Association is starting to supply stoves and ethanol for other refugee camps and also for new housing developments in Addis Ababa, and a local factory is producing the stoves. Stoves are also being introduced in Addis Ababa, and local manufacture has started.

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[99cachorro]

why were they dumping molassas to begin with? there is a market for it in most other countries.

[AshdenAwards]

I don't know for sure, perhaps there's no local market and it's not economic to transport it?

[EnergyCenterCA]

Its a great effort to not only reduce pollution and discourage deforestation but also make the life of the people easier and better. The world needs to keep moving in the direction of educating people and inventing new sustainable energy products.

[phunkbts]

This is good on behalf of Gaia, I hope that they will continue to help eliminate if not greatly reduce the level of proverty amongst Ethiopean refugee's and poor people in general from East Africa. Thank You