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In a new video from Burn Manufacturing, Peter Scott explains its mission and future. You can watch the video here. BURN Manufacturing Co. (BMC) aims be the sole manufacturer of high quality biomass cookstoves in Kenya and East Africa. BMC … Continue reading
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Kenya—Cookstove Study Results With support from WASHplus, resource partner Berkeley Air Monitoring Group conducted a study in Kenya of the locally manufactured Jiko Poa, a fuel-efficient rocket stove. Results of this study, conducted using a 24-hour “before and after” design, showed highly … Continue reading
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The United Nations news brief, the UN Wire, has also featured the story. Read more at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=143813828.
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12 months ago BURN Design Lab was launched with a dream of building a state-of-the-art stove design center that could help save forests and lives in the developing world. Thanks to the enormous ongoing support from the local community, our … Continue reading
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Brian Lehrer, host of the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC in New York City, interviewed Burkhard Bilger, author of an article in the December 2009 issue of the New Yorker about Peter Scott and the quest for the perfect stove. … Continue reading
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We are working with The Paradigm Project on a Rocket stove program for Kenya. The ‘Jiko Poa’ stove features an abrasion and thermal shock resistant ceramic liner surrounded by a precision cut, sheet metal cladding. The stove is currently being … Continue reading
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Peter Scott pitched the idea of BURN at the Fortune Green Brainstorming Conference and was very well received. Read more here: http://realassetsjunkie.com/2011/04/09/a-hot-idea/
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We hope you’ll join us to learn about ways to share your ideas and energy to the BURN Design lab. All are welcome! View the event on Facebook.
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Burn Design Lab is pleased to have been asked to be a Partner Organization of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves! Peter Scott will serve on three committees to help drive the initiative. Read more about the Global Alliance’s initiative … Continue reading
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The Paradigm Project, Peter’s partners on the Kenya project, has a wonderful slide show and video describing the issues which BURN addresses. See it here.
