A solution, as Envirofit sees it: New cookstoves, which while still burning biomass (wood, crop waste, dried animal dung)
reduce indoor air pollution by 80 %, reduce fuel usage by 50 % and decrease cooking times by 40 %.
Improved cookstoves
reduce indoor air pollution — one of the developing world's biggest killers, cut fuel costs for families and help tackle climate change.
They also
reduce indoor air pollution, improving the living conditions of women and children in particular.
Good health and well - being: Improved cook stoves
reduce indoor air pollution.
Beeswax candles are a source of negative ions, and can help
reduce indoor air pollution.
Programmes to
reduce indoor air pollution could yield greater benefits if building managers pay attention to these other factors.
ERIE COUNTY, NY — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator, Judith A. Enck joined Erie County Commissioner of Health, Dr. Gale Burstein, representatives of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and a Buffalo family to highlight the organizations» successful efforts to
reduce indoor air pollution that can trigger asthma attacks.
Lighter and denser than wood, charcoal burns longer and produces fewer toxic emissions,
reducing indoor air pollution by up to 90 percent.
Reducing indoor air pollution, home and yard chemicals, and other sources of toxic exposure.
Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly
reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.
The stoves are locally manufactured and use half the fuel of traditional stoves — saving families money,
reducing indoor air pollution and cutting carbon emissions.
And on top of the climate benefits, 100 million families would have healthier homes through
reduced indoor air pollution.
Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms;
reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Not exact matches
Apart from
reducing their personal contributions to outdoor
pollution, there is not much that individuals can do about this unless they invest in systems to filter the
air they breathe
indoors.»
Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate
indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to
reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia;
reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.
Indoor pollution is generally higher than outdoor
pollution unless you consciously
reduce it by building your house with non-toxic materials, remove your shoes prior to entering your house and use an
air filter in urban areas.
In newer school buildings the trend towards tightly sealed construction design — to
reduce noise for example — plus the use of certain synthetic building materials, toxic paints and varnishes, and items of furniture and carpets that off - gas chemicals such as formaldehyde, all contribute to
indoor air pollution.
In addition, using coal in large centralized plants dramatically
reduces the burning of fuel wood and waste that causes enormous
indoor air pollution in developing nations.
As the alternative ignition technique
reduces particulate
pollution from a single fire by an average of 87 %, the effect on levels of
indoor pollution and ambient
air pollution is dramatic.
It also leads to a drastic reduction in
indoor and ambient
air pollution, better visibility and
reduced health risk.
By preventing
indoor air pollution, the stoves
reduce the risk of dangerous respiratory, cardiovascular and eye diseases.
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.
This technology
reduces fuel demand and smoke emissions, not only saving users money on fuel, but also decreasing their exposure to health - damaging
indoor air pollution.
The Breathing Space Programme, by replacing traditional stoves, contributes towards solving the
indoor air pollution problem by deploying cleaner and greener cooking stoves in addition to
reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
These dramatically
reduce fuel bills, cut harmful
indoor air pollution and at the same time,
reduce global carbon emissions, helping to tackle climate change.
Reducing deforestation and
indoor air pollution requires the substitution of wood and charcoal with modern energy.
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.
This one takes on a topic we recently wrote about:
reducing deforestation and
indoor air pollution with more efficient cookstoves.
Using less fuel they save families money,
reduce deforestation and
indoor air pollution, and cut CO2 emissions.
Working with ClimateCare, organisations can fund programmes to quickly and cost effectively cut
indoor air pollution by making solar power, efficient stoves and gravity fed water filters affordable for families —
reducing the risk of pneumonia, diarrhoea and other diseases.
As well as purifying the
air we breathe of harmful toxins according to NASA,
indoor plants can also
reduce stress, control humidity and lower sound
pollution.