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Slides: Bmps For Reclamation: Do We Know What Is Effective?, Peter Stahl
Slides: Bmps For Reclamation: Do We Know What Is Effective?, Peter Stahl
Best Management Practices (BMPs): What? How? And Why? (May 26)
Presenter: Pete Stahl, Wyoming Reclamation and Restoration Center
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How Can The Rural Energy Poor Obtain Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies?, Michael Waggoner
How Can The Rural Energy Poor Obtain Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies?, Michael Waggoner
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Solutions to a current serious problem for the rural energy poor might best be found at least in part in older practices.
The problem comes from cooking over open fires, impairing the health of the cook and of others in her family, using fuel so inefficiently as to threaten forests, and releasing soot that contributes to global warming. Small, cheap, reliable cooking stoves could address these issues, improving health by reducing smoke and exhausting it through a chimney and thus away from the cook, using fuel more efficiently so that less needs to be gathered, and more completely burning the …