The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) and Project Gaia, an international forum focused on the localized production and use of appropriate-scale alcohol fuel for clean indoor cooking and energy needs is taking place in Atlanta from November 29 to December 1, says a Businesswire press release.Nigerian, Haitian, Mexican and US Representatives are participating in the program.
David Blume, an alcohol fuel expert and author of the book ‘Alcohol can be a gas!’ said, “Locally produced Alcohol fuel is an ideal source of energy for cooking, heating, refrigeration, electrical generation and transportation needs. Developing this fuel provides communities with abundant food, energy and job opportunities and can immediately help stop global deforestation, the number 1 contributor to climate change.”
“Worldwide, more than three billion people lack access to modern forms of energy and cook with traditional stoves that burn polluting fossil-based fuels,” said Harry Stokes, Executive Director for Project Gaia.
“Illnesses resulting from indoor air pollution claim an estimated 2 million lives worldwide each year. In many parts of the world pneumonia in infants and small children is the primary cause of death, and evidence links wood-fire cooking smoke to chronic bronchitis in women, low birth-weight in children, active TB, and many other ailments. Clean-burning stoves and alcohol fuels can dramatically change these statistics and that is why we have Forum participants coming from around the world to learn more about these practical and affordable solutions.”
The participants will be taught various ways of providing pollution free energy for safe indoor cooking and other uses.
As per PR inside.com, the participants will be taught ways to: Stabilize domestic fuel production costs at less than 30 cents/liter (USD), curb deforestation, black carbon emissions and global warming and earn carbon credits, integrate domestic food and energy production, identify high-value, high-yield crops for all climates to produce sustainable energy and increase soil fertility and create and encourage permanent local jobs.
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