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Impact of improved cookstoves on indoor air pollution and adverse health effects among Honduran women

Last updated August 05, 2009

Impact of improved cookstoves on indoor air pollution and adverse health effects among Honduran women
Stuart Conway, Trees, Water and People August 5, 2009

Links to recent posts on Indoor Air Pollution Updates

Last updated June 23, 2009

Dear Colleagues:

The Environmental Health at USAID knowledge managemment activity has started a news feed on indoor air pollution at:
http://iapnews.wordpress.com and below are titles of recent posts to the news feed.

  • Mexico - Quantification of carbon savings from improved biomass cookstove projects
  • South Africa: Arivi Paraffin Stove - Finalist in 2009 INDEX Awards
  • Guatemala - Personal child and mother carbon monoxide exposures and kitchen levels
  • US to fund $600 million clean energy projects in Asia
  • DRC - Mercy Corps stove project
  • Bangladesh - Indoor air pollution 4th leading risk factor for diseases
  • ADB - New partnership aims to expand access to modern energy to 100m people by 2015
  • India - World Bank shows interest in alcohol stove
  • Kamapla firm wins environmental award for non-char biomass briquettes

We welcome news about your projects, research and publications as well as suggestions and comments.

Best regards,
Dan

Dan Campbell, Web Manager
Environmental Health at USAID
1611 North Kent St., Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22209
Ph: 703-247-8722
Email: dcampbell@usaid.gov
Environmental Health at USAID: http://www.ehproject.org IRC/USAID Sanitation Updates: http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com
Urban Health Updates: http://urbanhealthupdates.wordpress.com
Cholera Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cholera-control
Household Water Treatment Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/household-water-treatment

Cooking the Planet: Are biomass stoves in the developing world affecting climate change?

Last updated January 31, 2008

Cooking the Planet: Are biomass stoves in the developing world affecting climate change?
Jeremey Roth, Aprovecho, January 2008

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Televisa: Impact of HELPS Stove Program in Guatemala

Last updated January 31, 2008

Televisa: Impact of HELPS Stove Program in Guatemala
Michelle Hollaender, Helps, International, January 2008

Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases

Last updated December 27, 2008

Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases, 1st edition May 2003
Prepared by UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) Chemicals Geneva, Switzerland

Dioxins and their effects on human health WHO

Last updated December 27, 2008

Dioxins and their effects on human health
World Health Organization, Fact sheet N°225 June 1999

Assessment of the health risk of dioxins: re-evaluation of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI)

Asia Regional Cookstove Program Letter from the Secretariat May-June 2006

Last updated December 27, 2008

Asia Regional Cookstove Program Letter from the Secretariat May-June 2006 (pdf)

Feature:
WHO Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy

Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health among Honduran Women

Last updated December 27, 2008

Air Pollution and Respiratory Health among Honduran Women (2 MB pdf)poster
M.L. Clark,1 J.L. Peel,1 S. Conway,2 J.B. Burch,3 S.J. Reynolds 1 2006

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; 2Trees Water & People, Fort Collins, CO; 3University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

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Small Scale Biomass Systems

Last updated June 24, 2006

Small Scale Biomass Systems, Renewable Energy: ER 120
Dan Kammen, Renewable Apprpriate Energy Laboratory, US Berekely, January 2002

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