Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves

The Pop-Up Two Buck Stove
Lanny Henson, November 27, 2007

Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
Michael Bernstein, American Chemical Society, October 26, 2006

Re-Launch of the Protos Website
Samuel N. Shiroff, BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, October 11, 2007

I wanted to make all of you aware of the re-launch of the protos website www.plantoilcooker.com

Protos Cooker

Making Charcoal for Biochar at Home
Charlie Sellers, November 18, 2007

Robert Flanagan's Biochar Stove: Carbon Negative Cooking
David Yarrow, TERRA: The Earth Restoration & Renewal Alliance, October 30, 2007

OSHA CO Factsheet
Occupational Health and Safety Administration, US Department of Labor, 2002

The C-H-O Fuel Map
Thomas Reed, Biomass Energy Foundation, October 4, 2007

Calculating the LHV for Biomass and Coal
Thomas Reed, Biomass Energy Foundation, October 1, 2007 to the Biomass Cooking Stoves List

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.

Efficient Cookstove Saves Refugee Lives in Sudan's Darfur Region
2007 Breakthrough Awards /// The Innovators /// Ashok Gadgil, Christina Galitsky
Popular Mechanics, November 2007

Popular Mechanics Video

By Logan Ward
Video by Virtual Beauty
Video Produced by Allyson Torrisi
Photograph by Brent Stirton
Published in the November 2007 issue.