Commerce girl sells handmade jewelry to raise funds for Darfur
Detroit Free Press
Julia's jewelry sales will go to the Darfur Stoves Project, a nonprofit effort to solve humanitarian problems in Darfur. The project produces specially designed fuel-efficient and eco-friendly stoves that cost $30, made especially for women...
Comments on: Whirlpool wants to pull plug on 'dumb' appliances
CNET News
Seriously? "Dumb" appliances operate for years on end. You buy one and forget about having it. Washers, Dryers, Stoves, Refrigerators... you just buy 'em and expect to keep 'em around for decades. The more crap you toss into one (e.g. the "...
A Dozen Countries Take on Toxic Pollution
Common Dreams
In 2008, 68,000 new stoves were sold in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana, potentially providing cleaner indoor air for approximately 400,000 people, including 160,000 children. The locally made Gyapa Charcoal and Wood Stoves reduced levels of harmfu...
Mass-market U.N. carbon scheme finds favor in India
Reuters
The other two cover the roll-out of more fuel-efficient commercial cooking stoves in restaurants and biomass boilers and gasifiers for agro industries, such as sugar mills. All three are estimated to yield about 12 million U.N. offsets call...
Climate change heat reaches the bylanes of China
Hindustan Times
In Beijing, the action against climate change is slowly reaching the micro level, to homes as cramped as Mumbai’s chawls where residents risk being poisoned in their sleep while burning coal in iron stoves. This week, I walked down a hutong...
Solar power gives Andean villages new lease on life
Reuters
With the use of a built-in sundial, the solar stoves are tipped to face the strongest sun and can set light to a piece of paper within seconds. They have proved popular, saving villagers the work of gathering scarce firewood or buying price...
Bullfrog store boosts sales efforts on heating of homes
Great Falls Tribune
Bullfrog Spas and Stoves has ramped up the stove side of its business. Bullfrog, located on 6th Avenue Southwest in Great Falls, has sold stoves for some time, but the company recently did some remodeling and installed stoves in its showroo...
INTERLINE BRANDS INC Earnings Conference Call (Q3 2009)
YAHOO!
The company also sells appliances and parts, including stoves, washer/dryer components, garbage disposers, refrigerators, range hoods, and replacement parts; security products ranging from individual lock-sets to computerized master-key sys...
Tips for Exterior Home Maintenance: Cleaning a Chimney
Associated Content
Keep in mind that also the slow burning fires in the wood stoves or the closed fireplaces can build up more creosote than the large, hot burning fires in many open fireplaces. Make sure that you inspect your chimney from the topside and wit...
Local Old Fashioned Candy Shop Finds Sweet Spot on National Television ...
PR-USA.net
All of the candy is made the old European way using copper kettles and cooked over open gas fired cast iron stoves. Small batches ensure freshness and quality. Locals can peek into the action by taking a tour of the old fashioned store. Pho...
Zynga's Gaming Gamble
Forbes
Competitors vie for points by tending to pseudo-stoves and cranking out orders of cheeseburgers and chunky fruit salads for animated customers. It's no joke. Within a week 4 million people daily were grilling and chopping in Zynga's Café Wo...
Election 2009/East: North Irwin police the issue in mayor's race
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A construction worker, Mr. Berkhouse, 29, was appointed a co-coordinator along with Councilman Gordon Stoves, who is running for re-election. Crime Watch remains intact. Its mission: To support Officer Kresich, who works 20 hours a week to ...
Electrolux Surges After Third-Quarter Profit Almost Doubles
Bloomberg
An additional factory in Sweden making stoves is under review. “Our results indicate that we have chosen the right strategy,” Chief Executive Officer Hans Straaberg said in a statement. “At the same time, we have to be realistic and ...
