http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2008/07/22/social-entrepreneurs-develop-cleaner-alternative-to-african-wood-burning-stoves Comments for "Social Entrepreneurs Develop Cleaner Alternative to African Wood-Burning Stoves" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2008/07/22/social-entrepreneurs-develop-cleaner-alternative-to-african-wood-burning-stoves <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> July 16, 2008 - 11:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> Knowledge@W.P. Carey</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> Social Entrepreneurs Develop Cleaner Alternative to African Wood-Burning Stoves</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1627">http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1627</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> <p>On his first trip to Ghana in September 2006, Mark Henderson traveled through countryside that was lush, but obscured with haze. <br /><br />The haze was the first thing Henderson saw when his plane landed in Accra, the most populous city in this West African country on the Gulf of Guinea. &quot;I could see the smoke permeating everything,&quot; Henderson said. &quot;Villagers told me this smoke is suffocating and toxic.&quot;<br /><br />Some of the haze was carried in by the Harmattan -- a dry and dusty West African wind that blows in from the Sahara at that time of year. But the rest, Henderson learned, is produced by the wood- and charcoal-burning stoves that villagers use for cooking.</p><br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> <p>On his first trip to Ghana in September 2006, Mark Henderson traveled through countryside that was lush, but obscured with haze. <br /><br />The haze was the first thing Henderson saw when his plane landed in Accra, the most populous city in this West African country on the Gulf of Guinea. &quot;I could see the smoke permeating everything,&quot; Henderson said. &quot;Villagers told me this smoke is suffocating and toxic.&quot;<br /><br />Some of the haze was carried in by the Harmattan -- a dry and dusty West African wind that blows in from the Sahara at that time of year. But the rest, Henderson learned, is produced by the wood- and charcoal-burning stoves that villagers use for cooking.</p><br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2008/07/22/social-entrepreneurs-develop-cleaner-alternative-to-african-wood-burning-stoves#comment Business Development Consumer Products Sub-Saharan Africa Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:32:30 -0400 Joseph Bornstein 5815 at http://www.nextbillion.net