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Cooking with Clean Energy--A Challenge of Global Proportions and a Tremendous Opportunity to Improve the Health of Women around the World

 

Nearly 2 million people—mostly women and children—in the developing world die annually from illnesses brought on by breathing toxic smoke from indoor cooking stoves.

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

 

Each day, half of the world’s families eat meals cooked on an open fire or a three-rock traditional stove. Women feed the fire with wood, dung, coal or crop waste—solid fuels that they’ve scavenged or purchased for a fraction of the…

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Added by Michelle Bashin on March 5, 2012 at 12:59pm — No Comments

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