The company, set up by US entrepreneurs, says indoor air pollution by Kerosene fumes kills 1.5m people per year.
Of the 3 million annual deaths, 2.8 million are from indoor air pollution.
Everyone concerned with indoor air pollution, health, natural resources in the developing world and global warming has a stake in these questions.
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
Would eradication of solid fuel cook stoves eliminate indoor air pollution?
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
Do they displace solid fuels and reduce indoor air pollution?
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
Since solar lanterns have higher adoption rates than clean cook stoves, such alternatives to kerosene for lighting may provide quick, cost-effective data for promoting policies that reduce indoor air pollution.
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
The latest research on indoor air pollution is alarming.
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
Only when I developed empathy for my local employees, thanks to numerous stomach conditions, nasty bed bug bites, and asthma from indoor air pollution (from cook-stove smoke), did I begin to make some progress at work.
Contrary to images of "going back to the Stone Age, " this form of energy efficiency actually increases the levels of illumination (and thus literacy), while trimming greenhouse gas emissions, indoor air pollution and energy bills that mire the poor in poverty.
Indoor air pollution (IAP) is an excellent example: A massive global problem and the second-largest driver of global warming, IAP causes over 3.5 million needless deaths each year, mainly in the developing world, and has a disproportionate impact on women and children.
FORBES: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: A Call to Action for Better Indoor Air Pollution Research
Yet, despite all the evidence implicating both indoor and outdoor air pollution's harmful impact on public health, we still have so much to do to clean up our act.
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