Sentences with phrase «firewood by»

My solution — plant more trees in this area, and stop the locals cutting them down for firewood by giving them something else to burn...

An award - winning system installed in Rwandan prisons reduced the need for firewood by half.

Not exact matches

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

We could ignore the whole season and pleasantly go about our daily routines, stacking firewood out by the garage and kneading dough in the kitchen.

Paul did NOT expect to be bitten by a snake as he was gathering firewood.

He is softened by his clothes, too: a literal lack of armor, no sword at his side, his only steel an axe for firewood.

But then, the next day rolls around and the kids are more than happy to ride into the woods on the trailer of the tractor while we haul more firewood up to be cut and stacked, and before we know it, a whole morning has gone by and so much has been done.

We are fortunate when we can protect a tree that has been provided by nature, but to make the extra effort of applying human labour to plant trees and subsequently hack them down for firewood, is a reflection of the thoughtlessness of both the contractor, political authority, and the littlemindedness of those who could not protect the shady trees.

This, he said, was not beneficial for Nigeria economically and health-wise, as data at the disposal of government showed that thousands of women and children had died as a result of diseases caused by firewood and kerosene polluted air.

Meanwhile, most households have also affected by this shortage and are compelled to now go back to the use of charcoal or firewood.

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in 1977, working with women to improve their livelihoods by increasing their access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water.

Although the health risks of collecting and using firewood and charcoal in traditional ways are real, policy makers, researchers and donors need to address the sustainability and viability of the biomass used by the majority of people, according to Ruth Mendum, director of gender initiatives in the Office of International Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State.

Firewood collection in African society is a gender issue because it is done almost exclusively by women, noted Mendum, who said inadequate sources of cooking energy contribute to food insecurity, particularly for very low income, food - insecure individuals.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

The healthy fats like peanuts bought by the covering are one and only the best nutrient compact food, reasonably priced appetizers that can almost certainly be bought at everyplace, so think of next while don't forget it to buy when you are gone for shopping: it covers plenty quantities of protein, rich fibre, and well - monounsaturated fats to please your appetite and firewood your build — and over, they're totally free from saturated fatty acid.

I'm active, and am usually found riding horses, hiking, cutting firewood, or down by the lake.

Also: the couples hunt, cut firewood and are tested by a snowstorm.

-LCB-... -RCB- a woman who was collecting firewood got ambushed by two men, who then beat her for trying to resist.

The women and girls who participated in the focus group discussion hailing from various IDPs2 camps in Mogadishu said they live under fear due to abuses by armed groups members especially when going to the bush to collect firewood with some of them being raped or assaulted to extent that some have opted to sending their male children or relatives to the bush to collect firewood.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

Matt A convenient 12 - hour jaunt north from the Mozambique capital of Maputo in a sure - to - break - down Chinese - donated bus crammed full of German backpackers, firewood - toting locals and a small baby playing with your backpack while its mother sleeps leaning against a window, is Tofo, a small fishing village known for generations by locals primarily as a fertile -LSB-...]

However, we discourage our groups from using water heated by wood, as lack of firewood in villages is a big environmental concern in Nepal.

WHEN I WANT TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, I assist by burning fire control belts around the local village and assist with the supply of firewood for ceremonies and funerals.

Arriving at Moose Creek 4, summer or winter, you'll be greeted by a stack of split firewood taller than you.

The units are powered by solar power, and guests are asked to not use implement such as hair dryers etc.Communal braai facilities are available for use in the lapa, and braai packs, breakfast, ice, and firewood is available on request at an additional cost.

Colossus iterates on this particular approach by adding in a slew of gory kill animations where you use B.J's new hatchet to turn fascists into firewood.

Electricity is generated by solar panels, and heat is supplied via firewood.

In much of the 3rd world, Andy's example of girls gathering firewood and water is typically a situation where a culture that used to live somewhat comfortably and with stability, through a combination of foraging, pastoralism, and small - scale agriculture or horticulture, is now seriously out of balance because unplanned modernization prompted huge population increases at the same time that resources were taken away by competing cultures.

Part of the problem is visible around refugee camps in this West Darfur city or particularly around the Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur, where a forest of baobab, acacia, palm and other trees has been largely decimated by the displaced, who scrounge for firewood or logs to sell.

In India, the main danger is indoor cooking and heating fires fueled by dried dung or firewood.

This sounds a bit like my parents, living in the forest with no internet or TV, chopping firewood for their cookstove, and eating their meals by lamplight.

And we know the world — which today still has 2 billion people cooking on firewood or dung — will almost surely need more than twice today's energy menu by mid-century to have a chance of a smooth ride toward broader well - being.

Household air pollution from these sources is currently linked to 2.8 million premature deaths per year, and several billion hours are spent collecting firewood for cooking, mostly by women, that could be put to more productive uses.

Life on land: Access to clean water helps to reduce deforestation and desertification rates by reducing the use of firewood to boil water.

The inescapable if unfashionable conclusion is that the human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second, by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.

4.3 million of these deaths are due to 2.8 billion people in the developing world who cook and keep warm inside their homes, by burning dung, firewood and coal — filling their living spaces with smoke and pollutants.

Replacing firewood with solar thermal cookers, or even with electric hotplates fed by wind - generated electricity or with some other energy source, will lighten the load on forests.

The Green Belt Movement (GBM) was founded by Professor Wangari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK) to respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women who reported that their streams were drying up, their food supply was less secure, and they had to walk further and further to get firewood for fuel and fencing.

The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after harvest.

By fuel plants I mean trees for firewood.

In the cooler part of the year, water too can usefully be heated by burning firewood.

I used to have a good winter Firewood business in North Texas.No more by a log shot.I longed for cold air this fall and now it arrives.But what ice sheet is melting to heat the warmer air arriving at the North Pole where this air came from?

Total benefits worth $ 8.6 million USD Monetary value is also generated by cost savings on firewood.

And it's happening because of carbon dioxide and global warming: «human use of fossil fuels has been causing the greening of the planet in three separate ways: first, by displacing firewood as a fuel; second, by warming the climate; and third, by raising carbon dioxide levels, which raise plant growth rates.»

By reducing demand for firewood the efficient stoves reduce pressure on dwindling forests and to date have saved families more than $ 41 million in fuel costs.

Breathing or wood burning doesn't add extra CO2 to the atmosphere, because what we breath or use as firewood was removed as CO2 from the atmosphere months to years before by photosynthesis... In contrast, fossil fuels were removed from the atmosphere many millions of years ago and now it is one - way addition...

By that we mean their firewood is harvested sustainably, it is burned cleanly and efficiently, and its energy is used to reduce the net greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

Projects working to preserve the forest by increasing the use of alternative fuels — such as methane gas produced from organic waste — for heat also help relieve women of the burden of gathering firewood from many miles away.

Now Permaculture Magazine also has a short piece on how to build small - scale hugelkultur beds by one UK permaculturist who is emptying his raised beds and filling them with firewood.

Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in 1977, working with women to improve their livelihoods by increasing their access to resources like firewood for cooking and clean water.