Improving Health with Improved Cooking Stoves

Improving biomass cooking stoves is a powerful positive health intervention, especially in households that include children. Enclosing stoves prevents skirt fires, and burns that can be deadly or permanently disfiguring. Reducing emissions in cooking stoves, keeps those particles from building up in the lungs of babies, children and other family members, and improves survival rates from pneumonia, influenza, and other infections.

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
Architecture for Humanity, editors, October 19, 2007

The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than three billion people—nearly half the world's population—do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded.

Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, often against great odds.

Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world.

Humanitarian Shelters
Jeff Rahm, Triangular Integrated Structures, October 19, 2007
Geoshelter with Entry DoorGeoshelter with Entry Door

Announcement posted on behalf of CAROLINE OKWIRI, SHELL FOUNDATION, BREATHING SPACE PROGRAMME MANAGER:

Next generation house hold cook stove EARTH STOVE
Ramesh Kumar Nibhoria, Nishant Bioenergy, April 17, 2007

Biomass Pollution Basics
David Pennise, Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development
(CEIHD), University of California-Berkeley

DE LA “LORENA” A LA “PATASARI”: PROCESO DE MEJORAMIENTO E INNOVACIÓN DE TECNOLOGÍA RURAL

En este documento se hace un poco de historia del desarrollo de la estufa Patsari. Originalmente este artículo se presentó en la Latin America Regional Conference 2004, celebrada en Guanajuato, Gto.

patsari-gro: Estufa Patsari en Guerrero  Foto: Rodolfo Dpatsari-gro: Estufa Patsari en Guerrero Foto: Rodolfo D

Si desea obtener el artículo completo, favor de solicitarlo a: rodolfodiazj@yahoo.com.mx

INTRODUCCIÓN
La tecnología no es un elemento neutro, ni resultado “natural” del desarrollo científico-tecnológico, tampoco es un “paquete” que debe ser adaptado y usado en todas partes. Por el contrario, la tecnología es resultado de una compleja interacción de las necesidades, recursos, y de los objetivos y la lógica de desarrollo de quien la diseña. Es por esto que existe un gran número de necesidades, sobre todo en las zonas rurales de los países en desarrollo, que no se cubren actualmente, ni interesa cubrir en el mediano plazo.

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