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VENTURE: Integrated Solar Cooking

VENTURE: Integrated Solar Cooking

Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by .

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Max Ozimek, 14, USA - I am starting an integrated solar cooking project in Obia-Zeu, Uganda. Integrated solar cooking uses solar cookers, rocket stoves, and haybaskets to reduce the use of firewood as a fuel source. Solar cookers are used to cook cleanly and inexpensively when the sun is shining. Fuel efficient stoves (“rocket stoves”) are [...]

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IDEA: Plant Fruit Trees

IDEA: Plant Fruit Trees

Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by .

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Laura, 17, USA - Each student at Hope Integrated Academy (Uganda) will receive two fruit-bearing trees to plant on their property. They will be able to use the fruit to eat,to sell some in order to generate income, and use the seeds of fruit to plant more trees. They will be asked to give some of the seeds [...]

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IDEA: Promote Biomass Stoves

IDEA: Promote Biomass Stoves

Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by .

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Joseph, 20, Uganda - My community greatly depends on the available forest resources for survival. This includes cutting trees for wood fuel (charcoal and firewood) for cooking, timber for income and creating spaces for agricultural practices. These practices are creating a huge socio-economic, biodiversity and environmental problem. We are now experiencing an increase in drought, floods, [...]

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