China's Green Beat - Bioenergy in Yunnan

http://www.chinasgreenbeat.com
Yunnan province in Southwest China is a multicultural, beautiful place and a hotbed of biodiversity. Many rural people rely almost solely on firewood for their energy needs of cooking and heating. Over collection of firewood is the most immediate and significant threat to biodiversity in Northwest Yunnan, because of the amount of deforestation and destruction of habitat that takes place to harvest the wood. The use of biogas digesters and efficient stoves is increasing, however, which is in turn decreasing the need for wood, saving time and labor for rural people.

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• China
• green
• beat
• environment
• Yunnan
• global
• warming
• renewable
• energy
• bioenergy
• biogas