Featured Project: Cookstoves for Liberia
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ASU Sustainability Team SJedi seeks a NCIIA Sustainable Visions Grant in order to introduce Envirofit Intl’s clean cookstoves into Liberia and sub-Saharan Africa. SJedi seeks to mimic the success of Envirofit’s G3300 series cookstoves that were recently introduced in India and where “over the next five years these 60K cookstoves will keep over 400,000 tons of CO2 and over 85,000 kg of black carbon from entering the atmosphere, while garnering savings of over 900 million rupees ($18M USD) for some of India’s lowest-income consumers."
The NCIIASustainable Vision Grant will allow SJedi to introduce new technology into rural communities (1) decreasing indoor air quality dangers and improving health, (2) decreasing deforestation by requiring women to collect less wood for cooking and heating, (3) decreasingthe invisible costs women and children face in cooking and preparation labor, and (4) reducing rural poverty by participating inEnvirofit’s carbon emission reduction revenue sharing scheme.