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Articles related to Ecofogão


 

Ecological wood stove

News article published by the ecological journal,  Jornal do Brasil
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EcoFogões, an efficient alternative

Interview with Rogério Miranda at the site of Winrock, Brasil

 

An ardent award

News article about Ecofogão in Nicaragua, published by the journal La Prensa da Nicaragua.
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The modernization of small business through the Ecostove in Nicaragua.

This article describes how small domestic businesses in Nicaragua that use traditional wood stoves are now adopting the ECOFOGÃO.  This makes the work conditions healthier and cleaner and also, since the Ecofogão uses wood more efficiently, the businesses are able to save on operating costs by buying less wood.

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Other articles related to wood stoves, health, and reforestation.  

 

Wood Stove and the Food of Minas Gerais

Article published on the site of TV Globo Minas

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Smoke kills someone every 20 seconds in poor countries.

News article published on BBC Brasil's site
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Risk of contracting repiratory sickness.  Danger in using coal and wood.

Article published by the journal
O Estado de Minas

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Report by ITDG about the harm caused by indoor air pollution in developing countries.

Report about harm caused to health by smoke in underdeveloped countries, by NGO ITDG
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From industrial consumers to rural producers: an incentive scheme for reforestation in Brazil and Nicaragua

This article describes how small industrical consumers of wood in Nicaragua and in Brazil are contributing to a program of forest replacement, reforesting the wood that they use in their production processes.  The ECOFOGÃO in the production process uses wood for the production of the ceramic combustion chamber.  For this it has contributed in Nicaragua and briefly in Brazil to a forest replacement foundation.

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Poster done by Maggie Clark of the Department of Environmental Health at Colorado State University for an upcoming conference with some of the results from her study of emissions and the health benefits to women of our Justa stoves in Honduras compared to traditional stoves.

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