Sentences with phrase «dried dung for»

The other obstacle is the unmet demand for basic energy needs of the some 2.8 billion people who still burn firewood, charcoal, or dried dung for cooking and heating, and of the 1.2 billion who can't reach for a light switch.

More than 2 billion people rely on firewood or dried dung for cooking and often burn these fuels in unvented stoves or fireplaces.

Not exact matches

Do It Yourself ● For a true Mongolian barbecue, you need a sheep, a huge stock pot, a bunch of rocks, a dried dung fire, and several hungry Mongolians.

The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.

To a lesser extent, the term «controversy» also relates to Ofili's notoriety as an artist known, or remembered, for regularly (and some might say «irreverently») fixing dried orbs of elephant dung to canvases, as well as positioning them as spherical stands upon which works are placed to transform them from two - dimensional artworks into more complex three - dimensional mixed - media sculptures (adding to its potentially troublesome qualities, The Holy Virgin Mary utilized both techniques).

But that is only the first baby step given the need for far more energy to supply human needs, even with spreading efficiency (recall that 2 billion people are cooking on firewood or dried dung at the moment).

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.