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Aaron Newman
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- Raleigh, NC
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- Enloe High School
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- GPSA 2012
- Project Title
- Efficient Cook Stoves for Rural Guatemala
- Project Description
- Over the past year, I have been researching and building different smokeless stove designs along with investigating the use of their byproduct, charcoal, as an organic soil amendment. With this information, I traveled to Calhuitz, Guatemala along with 12 other students to lead an education and integration project focused on efficient cook stoves. In our month stay, we were successful in designing, testing, and integrating a cookstove design that produced hardly any smoke, could be built with local materials for under 10 dollars, and used 80% less wood than a traditional chimney stove. Our first step was to educate the community about the negative impacts of open stoves on the environment and health. To do this, we gave lectures in Spanish (translated into the Mayan dialect) to large groups of community members at local meetings. Next, we surveyed 15 families about their home situation, the type of stove they were using, and any problems associated with it. This step was used to assess the need for the new innovation. After meeting with the community's health committee and receiving their approval for integration, we began building the stove design, which consisted of two large pots and 14 cement blocks. In our last week there, we built 4 stoves in the homes of people that were identified as being in greatest need. To make the project sustainable, we taught the community leaders how to build and use the stove and left them manuals, education materials and building materials (enough for 10 stoves).
The Cause
3 billion people worldwide still depend on inefficient cook stoves; 2 million of these people die annually due to smoke related COPD, bronchitis, pneumonia, lung cancer and acute respiratory infection.
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Allison Hague left a comment for noemi fernandez"Hi Noemi, Welcome to Teens For Planet Earth! I hope that you can connect with other teens, and find some useful information in case you are planning any projects in the near future. Best of luck, and let me know if you have any questions!"
Abhash Mishra posted a blog postTree felling in Allahabad,India
This is for the Indian Govt. and to the Indian forestry Deparment.,...In 2012-13,about HUNDREDS of trees were cut-down for construction in Allahabad,U.P for the kumbh fair.I want to ask you, where are the trees that should be planted in return according to the policy of Reforestation.And where was the forest department when they were being cut.See More
Abhash Mishra commented on Cierra Mathes's blog post HELP"Sell your old things for money which you don't need anymore.
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Get yourself and some of your friends employed somewhere for a part time job
Ask a local NGO for HELP.
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