Stoves Camp 2010 is July 26-30 Submitted by Erin Rasmussen on 11 May 2010 Dean Still, May 2010 Hi Stovers! As Paul says Stove Camp is July 26-30 here at Aprovecho Research Center next to the river in beautiful Cottage Grove, Oregon. The theme of Stove Camp this year is “Tuning TLUDs” using the emissions [...]

Hi Folks, It was not quite 9 months ago, when I sent out an email to a small group of collaborators, with a Subject line that asked the question: “How do we get biochar stoves to Central America?” Of course, like the punch line to the old vaudeville joke, the answer is “lots of hard [...]

Smell the Coffee, Not the Smoke: Biochar Stoves on Coffee Farms in Central America Good coffee and great biochar are a match made in heaven. Especially since one product of that match is a cleaner cook stove for migrant coffee pickers who often have only open fires for cooking. Cooking on an open fire in [...]

I have recently returned from Costa Rica. I want to summarize the experience and lay out some goals for this project.  That two and a half weeks in Costa Rica was incredibly productive. If I had any doubts about either the scale of the need or the design of the stove, I don’t now. These [...]

Photos by Art I (Art Donnelly @ SeaChar.Org) am spending two weeks (Jan 13-26th) in the Santos region of Costa Rica. I am here at the invitation of a local organic coffee growers co-op and Arturo Segura  www.solcolibri.com , to help develop a biochar stove project. This will initially target the health concerns of the [...]

My friends i had a conversation with Rocio Loria, the anthropologist in charge on site  of the ongoing project   with the migratory coffee pickers here in Los Santos Region and she is all for checking out and being  part of the workshops  on the Biochar stoves coming up in January!!! We will be talking in [...]

Art For you 4.30 in the morning, for me 6.30 am. Carolina and I just ran to cover the coffee we have in our small patio and it did not get really wet thankfully . There are around 8 people picking our coffee right now. today is our first day of harvest. The are out [...]

Burkhard Bilger, Annals of Invention, “Hearth Surgery,” The New Yorker, December 21, 2009, p. 84 Read the full text of this article in the digital edition. (Subscription required.) Related Links Video: Three designs for the developing world. Keywords Stoves; Peter Scott; Dale Andreatta; Stove Camp; Third World; Poverty; Environmentalism ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF INVENTION about stovemakers. [...]

Buenos dias from Matagalpa, Nicaragua!  One week into our partnership with Agros International and Groundwork Opportunities, there are promising signs of growth and progress for biochar producing stoves in Central America.  The foundation for an understanding of the soil-improvement potential of biochar and combustion principles of the Anila stove has been laid, and the citizens of Agros´ community of San Jose [...]

On Saturday, August 1, Seachar hosted Dr. Paul Anderson (Dr. TLUD) for an all-day workshop in the construction of Top-Lit Up Draft (TLUD) cookstoves.  The stoves can quickly be constructed from commonly available materials, and produce charcoal while providing heat for cooking (or other uses).  Paul’s TLUD stoves have been tested and shown to produce [...]