ETHOS 2004 Conference, Seattle, January 31-Feb 1, 2004

Design Performance Guidelines Workshop, Seattle, Feb 2-3, 2004

Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service

Northwest College, Kirkland, Washington

Fellow stovers,

You are invited to participate in a Design and Performance Guidelines Workshop in Seattle on February 2-3, 2004. The Workshop is being sponsored by the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air and Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-learning (ETHOS). We will be establishing broad design and performance principles for home cooking and heating practices that can be used by a wide range of organizations throughout the world. These principles will aid us in our mission to improve health, livelihood and quality of life by reducing exposure to air pollution, primarily among women and children, from household energy use.

Come join with a group of committed professionals to:

• define the terms clean, efficient, affordable, reliable, and safe as they relate to home cooking and heating practices;
  
• identify design and performance principles that represent best practices from throughout the world; and
  
• establish broad design and performance guidelines for improved cookstoves and heating devices that can be used by members of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air. These design and performance guidelines will address a variety of technologies and fuel types, and will be appropriate for outreach and education materials.
  
  

The Design and Performance Guidelines Workshop will directly follow the annual ETHOS Conference that will be held in Seattle, January 31 - February 1, 2004. We hope that many ETHOS members and Conference participants will also participate in the Design and Performance Guidelines Workshop. For more information on ETHOS and the ETHOS 2004 Conference, please go to

http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/~kmbryden/ETHOSbrochure.htm or

contact Lisa Büttner at lbuttner@winrock.org or 703-525-9430 x663.

More information on the Partnership Design and Performance Guidelines

Workshop will be distributed later this year. If you have any questions

now, please contact Brenda Doroski at doroski.brenda@epa.gov or

202-343-9764 or John Mitchell at mitchell.john@epa.gov or 202-343-9031.

Mark Bryden

President, ETHOS

ph: 515-294-3891