{"id":13416,"date":"2011-09-07T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2011-09-07T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:06:36","slug":"rocket-stove-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/rocket-stove-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rocket Stove: Fueling Health and Opportunity in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 3: Meet the Makers\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28494946?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wood-burning <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/clean-cook-stove-biolite\/\">cook stoves<\/a> may not be the sexiest pieces of technology, but they can be literal life savers in the developing world: the World Health Organization estimates that the pollution caused by indoor cooking over open fires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs292\/en\/\">kills 1.6 million people<\/a> every year. They&#8217;re also economically and environmentally beneficial: because <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/09\/how-to-build-a-rocket-stove\/\">well-designed stoves<\/a> burn wood more efficiently, they require less time spent gathering fuel, and also slow rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/reforestation-projects\/\">deforestation<\/a> that results from this activity. The Paradigm Project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theparadigmproject.org\/stoveman\">Stoveman<\/a> web video series (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/sunfiltered\/2011\/06\/stoveman-bringing-clean-cook-stoves-to-the-developing-world\/\">I first covered at SUNfiltered<\/a>) document&#8217;s this social enterprise&#8217;s effort to distribute 5 million cook stoves to the world&#8217;s poor, with a focus on Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The Paradigm Project is focused specifically on variations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketstove.org\">rocket stove<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/theparadigmproject.org\/videos\/1564710\/28494946\">the latest episode<\/a> of Stoveman (above) shows how a small Kenyan company is making\u00a0The Jiko Poa model from local materials&#8230; and for local customers. It&#8217;s an inspiring look at how social entrepreneurship can empower small business and local economies in some of the world&#8217;s poorest places.<\/p>\n<p>Yep&#8230; ideas don&#8217;t have to be sexy to be life-changing. Check out the third episode (as well as the previous two, if you haven&#8217;t), and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood-burning cook stoves may not be the sexiest pieces of technology, but they can be literal life savers in the developing world: the World Health Organization estimates that the pollution&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[214,5099,1072,404,4304,5338,5339],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Making the Rocket Stove in Kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Episode 3 of Stoveman shows how a Kenyan potter makes rocket stoves for sale to local residents.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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