Media
Please note, the PCIA website is now a legacy site. The resources that were produced over the past 10 years of the Partnership are still accessible on this website. However, the content is no longer being updated as of June 1, 2012.
The Media Coverage page is dedicated to household energy, indoor air pollution, and health related articles in the press.
Please click on the links below to access the articles.
Man Uses Sun to Cook
CNN
May 30, 2012Cooking Up a Cleaner, Safer Open-Fire Stove
Alice Rawsthorn, New York Times
May 20, 2012When Cooking Can Be Deadly
David Lindsay, CNN
February 7, 2012PCIA Podcast: Test Results of Cook Stove Performance with Aprovecho Research Center
Dean Still and Nordica MacCarty, Aprovecho Research CenterCurbing Cooking Smoke That Kills More People Than Malaria
Christopher Joyce, NPR Food Blog The Salt
October 18, 2011PCIA Partner, Patricia McArdle of Solar Cookers International Discusses Solar Cooking in Afghanistan at the TIDES Expo
Aisha Khalid, URDU VOA NEWS
October 10, 2011PCIA Partner Louis Meyer of SHE Gives TEDx Talk
Louis Meyer, Solar Household Energy, Inc.
September 27, 2011.A Low-Impact Stove for Rwanda
Josh Ruxin, The New York Times
June 13, 2011The Impact of Pollution on People's Health
Nalini Saligram, The Huffington Post
April 28, 2011Protecting Health and the Planet With Clean Cookstoves
Jeff Smith, National Geographic News
February 15, 2011Peru recognized for Improved Stoves for a Smokeless Peru Campaign
ANDINA Peruvian News Agency
February 23, 2011Cleaner cooking
Rebecca Voelker, The Rotarian
November 2010Cleaner, Healthier Cookstoves
New York Times
September 24, 2010Indoor pollution: silent and deadly
The Economist
September 23, 2010Developing Nations to Get Clean-Burning Stoves (Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves)
New York Times
September 21, 2010Clean Stoves for All
Newsweek
July 24, 2010Can Climate Change Clean Up Indoor Air?
Scientific American
July 12, 2010Follow BIOENERGY_FLAME on Twitter
A Twitter identity BIOENERGY_FLAME has been created by Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd to raise awareness about the impacts of IAP.The killer in the kitchen
@ the Forefront, Colorado School of Public Health
May 3, 2010Haiti turning garbage into energy
Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald
December 16, 2009Smoke-free Stoves A Godsend for Village Women
Zofeen Ebrahim, Inter Press Service News Agency
February 25, 2010Group helping Haiti in short, long term
Sara B. Hansen, Fort Collins Coloradoan
March 22, 2010World’s Pall of Black Carbon Can Be Eased With New Stoves
Jon R. Luoma, Yale Environment 360
March 8, 2010Solar Cooked Snowbank Chicken Soup
Pat McArdle
YouTube
February 10, 2010Breathing Easier: The Art of Stove Making
June Simms & Howard Neuberg, Voice of America Special English Development Report
January 31, 2010In India, Battling Global Warming One Stove at a Time
Fred De Sam Lazaro, PBS NewsHour
December 17, 2009Biomass Briquette Plant Opens in Cambodia
Simon Marks, The New York Times
January 4, 2010Hearth Surgery: The quest for a stove that can save the world
Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker
December 16, 2009
See also The Perfect Stove a related blog post by the authorJudge warms to helping nonprofit stove project grow
Karen McCowan, The Register-Guard
Dec 12, 2009YouTube Playlist with IAP/Cookstove video links
Many of these videos feature PCIA Partners, including: Envirofit; Colorado State University; Stove Team International; Aprovecho Research Center; SKG Sangha; Practical Action Kenya; Nishant Bioenergy; and Trees, Water & People (TWP).
Stove Team International featured on KVAL news in Eugene, OR
KVAL News
October, 2009Heroes of the Environment 2009
Time Magazine
By Madhur Singh
October 5, 2009Twenty ideas that could save the world
guardian.co.uk
July 13, 2009More information including a write-up and short video about the Aprovecho China Stove Project: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/13/manchester-report-stov...
International initiatives: Simple local solutions to a complex global issue
London Times
July 10, 2009Envirofit's $25 Clean-Burning Cooking Stove Is Ready for the Developing World
Ariel Schwartz, Fast Company
July 9, 2009Brazil discovers the benefits of efficient cook stoves
MercoPress
Written by Mr. Binu Parthan – REEEP Deputy Director General
May 28, 2009Interview about Solar Cooking with Louise Meyer of Solar Household Energy (SHE)
From SolarPowerBeginner.comFamilies Cook with Solar Energy (Familias Cocinan con Energía Solar)
El Diario de Hoy, El Salvador
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Martes, 2 de Junio de 2009
This article features Solar Household Energy (SHE) and its HotPot solar ovens in the area of San Francisco de Matapan, El Salvador. (article is in Spanish)
Un artículo sobre las ollas solares de Solar Household Energy (SHE) en el área de San Francisco de Matapan, El Salvador.JPMorgan to Sell C02 Credits From Cooking Stoves to Land Rover
Bloomberg
April 20, 2009Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight
The New York Times
April 15, 2009Indoor air pollution from biomass fuel smoke is a major health concern in the developing world
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygene 102, Issue 9
September, 2008Solar Cookers Around The World Unite Online Seeking To Drive Adoption Of Cooking The Natural Way--With The Sun
PR Web Press Release News Wire
August, 2008Cooking up Carbon Credits
Fortune
August 12, 2008Energy Globe Award - descerné au GERES Cambodge pour son programme énergie (French)
riaed.net
August 4, 2008Now, Biomass Cooking Stoves in India
Sify news
July 9, 2008Less Smoke Fires Up Health
Eugene Weekly
July 3, 2008The Importance of Solar Cooking
World Bank Podcasts
April 18, 2008Prenatal Exposure to Wood Fuel Smoke and Low Birth Weight
Environmental Health Perspectives 116(4):543-549
April 4, 2008Stove for the Developing World's Health
The New York Times
January 22, 2008Household Cooking Emissions Claim Tens of Thousands of Lives in India
Voice of America
December 04, 2007Darfur Refugees Tap the Sun's Power to Cook
Christian Science Monitor
July, 2007Chimney Stove Intervention to Reduce Long-term Wood Smoke Exposure Lowers Blood Pressure among Guatemalan Women
Environmental Health Perspectives
July, 2007Brasil movido à lenha (Brazilian Portuguese)
Jornal Hoje
April 19, 2007'Indoor' Air Pollution is the Biggest Killer
Times of India
March 22, 2007Indoor Air Pollution Claims 500,000 Lives in India Annually
Associated Press of Pakistan
March 22, 2007Aaj Taak News Clip on PCIA Forum Media Event in New Delhi and IAP (Hindi)
YouTube
March 21, 2007Bad Smoke Kills 1.6m Every Year, say Experts
Gulf Times
March 20, 2007Cooking Smoke Killing 1.6 mln Poor a Year
The Scotsman/Reuters
March 19, 2007Cooking Smoke Killing 1.6-million People a Year
Mail & Guardian Online
March 19, 2007Cooking Smoke Killing 1.6-million People a Year - Experts
SignonSanDiego.com
March 19, 2007Indoor Air Pollution: Silent Killer of Women
Inter Press Service News Agency
January 03, 2007Wood Stoves are Big Culprits in Climate Change
SciDev.net
October 27, 2006Indian Non Profit Group Partners with Chicago Climate Exchange for Carbon Trading
SignOnSanDiego.com
August 22, 2006Rwandans Trained on Firewood Alternative Technology
The New Times
August 15, 2006Renewable Energy Project Under Way in Botswana
Renewable Energy Access
August 08, 2006Navigant Consulting and Soluz release "Innovation in Rural Energy Delivery" Report
CleanEdge.com
August 01, 2006Transforming the Energy Landscape through New Devices
Daily Trust
July 03, 2006Nepal's Biogas Initiative gets Major Funding Boost
SciDev.Net
May 19, 2006Interview on Household Energy, Indooor Air Pollution and Health
Lisa Buttner, Winrock International
United Nations Radio
May 05, 2006Investment in Cleaner Household Energy yields Major Health and Economic Benefits
World Health Organization
May 04, 2006An Indoor Air Pollution Update from India
Greater Kashmir
April 17, 2006Petróleo aceita Deforestación
Tierramerica.com
April 17, 2006US Official Extols Rural Energy Program in SW China Province
China Development Gateway
April 13, 2006Nepal Second among 12 Asian Nations in Biomass Use
The Rising Nepal
February 28, 2006Philips Develops a Wood Stove that Saves Lives and Preserves Energy Resources
Philips Research Press Release
February 27, 2006UNFCCC Registers Two Nepali Projects on Climate Change
AngolaPress
February 06, 2006BP Group Targets Rural India with Hybrid Cooking Appliance
The Hindu Business Line
October 15, 2005Cow Dung for the Climate
BBC News Online
September 22, 2005Poor Need Renewable Energy Sources says Annan
Mongabay.com
August 23, 2005He Made a Cheap Stove -- For a Reason
The Boston Globe
May 31, 2005In Africa, Lifting the Pall of Smoke from Cooking
Washingtonpost.com
May 23, 2005A Silent Killer of Rural Women
BBC News Online
March 02, 2005