Slide presentation (in PDF format) of users’ responses to the methanol-fueled CleanCook (CC) stove during the 2007 study in Delta State, Nigeria. (2008; 1.1mb). . . See slides
Gaia Association and Makobu Enterprises engaged a consultant to prepare a business plan for ethanol cooking fuel and CleanCook stove market development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Upon finalizing their plan, they organized a workshop to receive comments from stakeholders and to amend the plan accordingly. (Gaia Association & Makobu Enterprises, 2007; 1.4mb) . . . Read article
Presentation of a business plan to manufacture ethanol for use as a household fuel in Ethiopia (Gaia Association, 2007; 596kb) . . . Read article
Slide presentation (in PDF format) of recent study activities in three locations in Delta State where 150 stoves have been introduced into participant households. (2007; 2.4mb). . . See slides
This project aims to make ethanol-fueled stoves available to improve indoor air quality, health, and environment. Clean, safe, efficient CleanCook stove will be installed in 2000 households, and an ethanol fuel infrastructure will be developed to supply participating households. (Gaia Association and Makobu Enterprises, PLC, 2007; 92kb) . . . Read article
In June 2005, Project Gaia Ethiopia and the Shell Foundation launched the pilot testing of ethanol-burning CleanCook (CC) stoves in 130 homes in Kebribeyah refugee camp in the Somali Regional State, eastern Ethiopia. The results of the study were extremely encouraging, with the CC stove displacing fuelwood use in homes by up to 100% in most cases. Indoor air quality and household health improved with the introduction of the new cooking technology, and women were relieved of the task of gathering fuelwood. (2006; 236kb). . . Read report
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In June 2005, Project Gaia and UNHCR embarked on a household energy initiative in the Shimelba Camp, Tigray, Ethiopia, to investigate whether the alcohol-fueled CleanCook stove, powered with ethanol supplied by Finchaa Sugar Company, could provide a solution to the growing concerns over scarce fuelwood resources in the area of the camp. Fuel scarcity increases conflict between local residents and camp residents, and poor respiratory health among refugees results from unhealthful indoor air quality created by wood-burning fires. (2006; 272kb). . . Read report
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Slide presentation (in PDF format) of people and places in Minas Gerais where Project Gaia is conducting pilot studies of the alcohol-fueled CleanCook stove. (2006; 884kb). . . See slides
This project seeks to make indigenously produced ethanol and an ethanol/methanol blend available to Ethiopians for use as a household fuel for cooking. The economics of ethanol and methanol production are such that both alcohols could and should be available for purchase cheaper than kerosene not just initially but on a sustainable basis. Kerosene is subsidized not by reducing the price at which it was purchased abroad but through tax holidays. No federal excise tax, sales tax and municipality tax are charged on kerosene. Despite this favorable treatment of kerosene vis-à-vis other imported fuels and commodities, ethanol and methanol can be competitive. A decision by the government to grant the same tax holidays to alcohol fuels as to kerosene will obviously increase alcohol’s competitiveness. (Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers; 72kb) . . . Read article
Established in 1991, the UNHCR Kebrebeyah Camp holds approximately 10,000 Somali refugees of various clans. Their homes are inverted U-shaped huts constructed of roots and the upper parts of a tree. Mud is applied to the bottom half of the interior walls, and exterior walls are covered with old clothes and blankets. While a few households have a small kitchen separate from their sleeping quarters, most families cook and sleep in a single room. (2005; 1.4mb). . . Read report
Increased dependence on fuelwood, coupled with unsustainable activities—commercial logging, forest fires, massive urbanization, population pressure, and desertification—have created an annuual deforestation of 450,000 hectares. Today Nigeria’s forest reserves are only four times the annual consumption of fuelwood. To reverse this trend, CEHEEN embarked on a two-year study of household energy with emphasis on environment, health, gender, and poverty. (Centre for Household Energy and the Environment (CEHEEN), 2001; 104kb) . . . Read article
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