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The border between Haiti (left) and the Dominican Republic highlights the relative deforestation of Haiti.
Photograph courtesy NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
"Many of Haiti‘s people, the poorest in the Americas, routinely cut down trees for fuel—either to burn „raw“ or turn into charcoal. As a result, the destruction of Haiti‘s natural forests is almost total, making the Caribbean country one of the most deforested in the world. As Haiti‘s trees have disappeared, landslides have become a major concern, especially during the rainy season, and the destabilizing effects of an earthquake on soil only worsen the problem".
See: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-haiti-earthquake-landslides
Biochar can play a key role in meeting critical needs in Haiti:
- Food security: up to 220% yield increase demonstrated for maize crops in degraded soils in tropics http://www.biocharfund.org
- Efficient fuel use/ending deforestation: with biochar it is no longer necessary to destroy the country’s forests to get enough fuel for people’s daily needs.
- Waste reduction: Not only agricultural wastes, but building debris, plastics and municipal wastes can be used in different types of pyrolysis processes that can be optimized for energy production.
- Sanitation: The Bain Foundation is developing a large project for sanitation and composting toilets. Biochar can make the toilets smell free and greatly increase the fertility of the resulting compost.
- Safe stoves solution:. Some biochar stoves can cook for a family of 5 for a day with a handful of biomass fuel.
- Reforestation: Haiti is one of the most severely deforested places on earth, a main cause of the critical clean water shortage, possibly Haiti’s worst development problem even before the quake struck. Integrated biochar agroforestry can help solve that problem.
In essence, the full range of biochar “co-benefits” are immediately applicable to relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti. Several companies are on the ground in Haiti producing stoves and building local business opportunities for the people of Haiti. including WorldStove, Meldyniqe and Miombo . NGOs likeOhio State University’s Haiti Biochar and SOIL are also involved. Through Biochar Haiti, a subgroup of the Biochar Offsets Group on LinkedIn, we have created a network for partnership and information sharing. With the right support from business, policy makers and members of the global public, we can scale up a biochar industry in Haiti and prove the benefits of biochar in ways that can be replicated in many developing countries.
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2 - WorldStove: LuciaStove on SLBC's evening news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkUunf_VA0
3 - WorldStove: #LuciaStove and #biochar on Good Morning Sierra Leon #SLBC (part one)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5XIFj4HIg
4 - WorldStove: #biochar on Planet 100! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrAaQfMeSQ&feature=sub
5 - WorldStove: Something we could/should all be doing (add biochar, and make it carbon negative) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
6 - WorldStove: LuciaStove production begins in Sierra Leone!!!!! http://twitpic.com/2gie3y
7 - WorldStove: nice article about #biochar, #LuciaStoves, and our work in Sierra Leon http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200516032.shtml
8 - WorldStove: RT @UNDP: RT @WeCanEndPoverty In Côte d'Ivoire, mothers start a club to invest in the future of girls' education http://bit.ly/aRUCEh # ...
9 - WorldStove: a grand day of #biochar talks and #LuciaStove demos in rural Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8SRRbNEOI
10 - WorldStove: Photos and notes on the work in Sierra Leone coming soon!
11 - WorldStove: part of why we are in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKqd2BMJW8
12 - WorldStove: Another busy but Grand day in Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jei1FYU82NE
13 - WorldStove: @marcelleopold happy to help but need to know where you are and who will be implementing
14 - WorldStove: power back. came back faster than in the DC metro area :)
15 - WorldStove: all of Lome' without power.. strange to see it so dark, so few generators here
16 - WorldStove: just arrived in Lome
17 - WorldStove: #worldstove's #facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1388606531
18 - WorldStove: this is what is normally done with palm waste here (Afeasu, #Ghana) http://twitpic.com/28smcg
19 - WorldStove: long way to go yet, but an important start. this #LuciaStove is running on palm husk waste. http://twitpic.com/28slzq
20 - WorldStove: why we do what we do http://twitpic.com/28as3t
1 - WorldStove: RT @HarvestPower: RT @EarthAdapt: #Green #Jobs : Moving Massachusetts to #1 for Clean Tech – Harvest Power - Job ... http://bit.ly/bIH1T ...
WorldStove: RT @HarvestPower: RT @EarthAdapt: #Green #Jobs : Moving Massachusetts to #1 for Clean Tech – Harvest Power - Job ... http://bit.ly/bIH1T ...
8/27/2010 3:56:05 PM
2 - WorldStove: LuciaStove on SLBC's evening news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkUunf_VA0
WorldStove: LuciaStove on SLBC's evening news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhkUunf_VA0
8/26/2010 8:13:25 PM
3 - WorldStove: #LuciaStove and #biochar on Good Morning Sierra Leon #SLBC (part one)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5XIFj4HIg
WorldStove: #LuciaStove and #biochar on Good Morning Sierra Leon #SLBC (part one)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5XIFj4HIg
8/26/2010 11:27:56 AM
4 - WorldStove: #biochar on Planet 100! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrAaQfMeSQ&feature=sub
WorldStove: #biochar on Planet 100! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrAaQfMeSQ&feature=sub
8/24/2010 5:24:58 PM
5 - WorldStove: Something we could/should all be doing (add biochar, and make it carbon negative) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
WorldStove: Something we could/should all be doing (add biochar, and make it carbon negative) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
8/23/2010 12:38:50 PM
6 - WorldStove: LuciaStove production begins in Sierra Leone!!!!! http://twitpic.com/2gie3y
WorldStove: LuciaStove production begins in Sierra Leone!!!!! http://twitpic.com/2gie3y
8/20/2010 6:28:21 PM
7 - WorldStove: nice article about #biochar, #LuciaStoves, and our work in Sierra Leon http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200516032.shtml
WorldStove: nice article about #biochar, #LuciaStoves, and our work in Sierra Leon http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200516032.shtml
8/19/2010 2:58:27 PM
8 - WorldStove: RT @UNDP: RT @WeCanEndPoverty In Côte d'Ivoire, mothers start a club to invest in the future of girls' education http://bit.ly/aRUCEh # ...
WorldStove: RT @UNDP: RT @WeCanEndPoverty In Côte d'Ivoire, mothers start a club to invest in the future of girls' education http://bit.ly/aRUCEh # ...
8/18/2010 2:33:37 PM
9 - WorldStove: a grand day of #biochar talks and #LuciaStove demos in rural Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8SRRbNEOI
WorldStove: a grand day of #biochar talks and #LuciaStove demos in rural Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8SRRbNEOI
8/10/2010 1:30:18 AM
10 - WorldStove: Photos and notes on the work in Sierra Leone coming soon!
WorldStove: Photos and notes on the work in Sierra Leone coming soon!
8/8/2010 7:01:48 PM
11 - WorldStove: part of why we are in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKqd2BMJW8
WorldStove: part of why we are in Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKqd2BMJW8
8/4/2010 1:30:07 AM
12 - WorldStove: Another busy but Grand day in Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jei1FYU82NE
WorldStove: Another busy but Grand day in Togo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jei1FYU82NE
8/1/2010 2:16:41 AM
13 - WorldStove: @marcelleopold happy to help but need to know where you are and who will be implementing
WorldStove: @marcelleopold happy to help but need to know where you are and who will be implementing
7/30/2010 11:28:34 PM
14 - WorldStove: power back. came back faster than in the DC metro area :)
WorldStove: power back. came back faster than in the DC metro area :)
7/30/2010 11:13:45 PM
15 - WorldStove: all of Lome' without power.. strange to see it so dark, so few generators here
WorldStove: all of Lome' without power.. strange to see it so dark, so few generators here
7/30/2010 10:19:28 PM
17 - WorldStove: #worldstove's #facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1388606531
WorldStove: #worldstove's #facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/profile.php?id=1388606531
7/27/2010 3:38:26 AM
18 - WorldStove: this is what is normally done with palm waste here (Afeasu, #Ghana) http://twitpic.com/28smcg
WorldStove: this is what is normally done with palm waste here (Afeasu, #Ghana) http://twitpic.com/28smcg
7/26/2010 9:38:55 AM
19 - WorldStove: long way to go yet, but an important start. this #LuciaStove is running on palm husk waste. http://twitpic.com/28slzq
WorldStove: long way to go yet, but an important start. this #LuciaStove is running on palm husk waste. http://twitpic.com/28slzq
7/26/2010 9:36:59 AM
20 - WorldStove: why we do what we do http://twitpic.com/28as3t
WorldStove: why we do what we do http://twitpic.com/28as3t
7/24/2010 9:32:02 PM
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