The Kenya Ceramic Jiko

The Kenya Ceramic Jiko
Author: Hugh Allen
Publisher: Practical Action
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1991
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Modelled on the Kenyan traditional stove, the Kenyan ceramic jiko burns 25 to 40 per cent less charcoal compared to traditional metal stoves and has been introduced successfully into many parts of Africa. This book describes methods of production and discusses questions of product quality.

The Grandest Challenge

The Grandest Challenge
Author: Abdallah Daar
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0385667191

The Grandest Challenge begins with a simple premise: that every person's life is of equal value, regardless of where in the world he or she lives. It also begins with an alarming fact: that in this age of spectacular scientific advances, it is still those who live in the developed world--mainly the west--who overwhelmingly benefit from our enormous new power to combat disease and enhance food, while those in the developing world are far more likely to die for lack of basic health care and inexpensive nutrition. As personalized medicine, designer drugs, and high-quality nutrients become more readily available than ever in the richest parts of the world, distinguished doctors Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer urge us to pause and ask these vital questions: Who will have access to the life-enhancing advances of biotechnology? And who are these advances ultimately meant to help? In this challenging, controversial, thought-provoking, and humane book, Daar and Singer inspire us to look more deeply at our new science, and at the revolution that is already changing all of our lives.

Mastering The Machine

Mastering The Machine
Author: Ian Smillie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429719612

'Mastering the Machine Revisited' is about the connection between poverty, aid and technology. It is about a search that has been going on, officially in the developing world for over forty years, and less officially in most countries since the beginning of time. It is a search driven today by more hard core poverty than has ever been known, and by

Guidelines for clean energy , Sub Saharan Africa

Guidelines for clean energy , Sub Saharan Africa
Author: S Batchelor
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1387096214

This manual has been designed for use by city officials and planners working in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a practical handbook, which identifies easy to achieve energy interventions that will save money (for cities, businesses and households), promote local economic development, and enhance the sustainable profile of a city. This manual is specifically aimed as a support tool to achieve the implementation of key interventions within municipalities across sub-Saharan Africa

Bioenergy And The Environment

Bioenergy And The Environment
Author: Janos Pasztor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 042969458X

This book shows in detail that environmental consequences of very large increases in biomass utilization could be serious, if they were carried out without proper management. It provides knowledge of adverse and beneficial effects that bioenergy systems have on the environment to energy planners.

Blood Cries Out

Blood Cries Out
Author: A. J. Swoboda
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625644620

John McConnell Jr. was the famed founder and visionary of Earth Day. McConnell's vision was one of creating a day of remembrance, solitude, and action to restore the broken human relationship to the land. Little acknowledged are McConnell's religious convictions or background. McConnell grew up in a Pentecostal home. In fact, McConnell's parents were both founding charter members of the Assemblies of God in 1914. His own grandfather had an even greater connection to the origins of Pentecostalism by being a personal participant at the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906. Earth Day, thus, began with strong religious convictions. McConnell, seeing the ecological demise through his religious background, envisioned a day where Christians could "show the power of prayer, the validity of their charity, and their practical concern for Earth's life and people." In the spirit of McConnell, today's Pentecostal and Charismatic theology has something to say about the earth. Blood Cries Out is a unique contribution by Pentecostal and Charismatic theologians and practitioners to the global conversation concerning ecological degradation, climate change, and ecological justice.