Sentences with phrase «indoor cooking fires»

In those two videos, Lomborg starts with reasonable arguments: the world's poor need access to energy in order to lift themselves out of poverty and that indoor cooking fires are terrible for human health.

Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution from coal fired power stations and many others were from indoor cooking fires using coal.

Not exact matches

You make a couple of hundred dollars a month, well above the standard of living for the genuinely poor, illiterate people from a despised ethnicity who live on dirt floors and cook over indoor fires.

Fire up the barbecue or indoor grill for the chicken and cook up a little white rice to serve on the side.

- Cook the shrimp outdoors in a grill pan, or on skewers with 1Tbs extra virgin olive oil (if needed) over a med / hi fire, or if cooking indoors, in a large skillet with 1 Tbs Extra Virgin Olive Oil (if needed) over med / hi heat until the shrimp become pink, opaque and just cooked through - about 3 - 5 minutes.

Up until now, my few grill - related posts have involved either having someone else do the work for me, or use of a less intimidating indoor grill that works okay, but never gets the food quite as good as it would've been had it cooked over a fire outdoors.

«Fine particles alone are not enough to worry about,» he says, pointing to other potential indoor sources of ultrafine particles, including home cooking, candles and fires.

Do not have indoor fires whether for pleasure, heat, or cooking.

Women and children are more likely to be affected by this indoor pollution due to their proximity to the cooking fire, and time spent in the household.

Between 2013 and 2015, there were over 51,548 cooking fires, 8,329 building fires, and 6,544 indoor trash fires in New York City across the five boroughs.

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

But it's also a moment to remember that millions of children and adults still die needlessly annually from exposure to mosquitoes, fetid water or palls of indoor air pollution from smoldering cooking fires; some governments and companies still trample human rights and pristine ecosystems to extract timber and minerals in remote places, and some among us plot atrocities or torture and subjugate those who are different or, too often, simply female.

Indoor air pollution in developing countries kills more than 3.5 million a year, almost all are women who cook the food over fires.

Directed studies showing that most human exposure occurs at home due to consumer products (solvents, paints, fire retardants, plasticizers such as phthalates and bis - phenol), indoor combustion, building materials (formaldehyde), water treatment (chloroform), smoking (benzene), cooking (fine and ultrafine particles), air «fresheners» (para-dichlorobenzene, alpha - and beta - pinene), etc..

By switching from traditional wood fires to clean biogas for cooking, indoor air pollution can be drastically reduced, thereby the risk of respiratory disease decreases.

Indoor pollution — caused by burning a fire inside your house, cabin, hut or tent to cook and keep warm — was a deadly global problem until the late 19th century when cheap kerosene, a fossil fuel byproduct, became available in America and Europe.

Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to reduce the number of global deaths caused by indoor air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.

For centuries Mayan Indians in Mexico and Guatemala have cooked their meals using an indoor fire pit located on the house floor called a «three stone fire.»

Moving from firewood to electricity generated in coal - fired plants is a genuine improvement, a technical remedy that separates cooking and heating from deforestation and severe indoor air pollution, even though the new source of energy contributes to local smog and global warming.

While modern gas and electric cooking stoves might be more practical and produce less indoor pollution than the open fires and crude stoves used in developing countries, they are equally energy inefficient.