Sentences with phrase «use of firewood»

Chile's renewable energy potential promises multiple benefits for the country, according to latest IEA country review Energy policy review applauds Chile for significant progress in the electricity sector and urges more ambition on energy efficiency and sustainable use of firewood 23 January 2018

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

Wood fuels include both the direct use of firewood and the use of charcoal.

I know there are several NGO projects worldwide that provide alternative cooking technologies to reduce the use of firewood cooking, etc..

They have been too little concerned with the simple technological changes needed for more efficient use of firewood as a fuel for cooking.

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Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

Wilson, who is both editor and publisher, stirs in fiction, book reviews and classified ads with articles on all aspects of boatbuilding, including such spellbinders as «When the Keel Drops Off» and «How I Almost Used My Kayak As Firewood.»

I use most of the tree for firewood to heat the house or boil sap and then we either chip what's left to use in the gardens and around the fruit trees or we burn it to help the soil along.

The phrase originated in the American deep south in the mid-19th century and was used to describe fugitive slaves who hid in piles of firewood as they fled north to Canada.

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

In rural areas, encourage the planting of trees and then pruning them to use the branches for firewood.

Charcoal is mostly used in urban centers while firewood is the predominant form of wood fuel used in rural areas.

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.

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.

«Unfortunately, the amount of aid is so little and the pressures to cut down the forest for furniture markets, firewood and building materials for homes, or other uses are so great that the conservation and money and protected areas are not enough to counteract the overall loss of forest in many countries.»

I've worked out in my mom's basement using a block of firewood as a weight before!

The rugged spray - in bed liner ($ 550) is an absolute necessity if you're actually going to use it as a truck — I later ferried a cord of firewood to the cottage and a simple spray - down left it good as new.

We'll report back on how that progresses as our 3000km - old Trafic runs in, and we'll also put the Trafic to every use we can think of, including the obligatory moving house for a mate, tip runs, Ikea missions and pushbike transport, plus rural chores like carting firewood, gravel and green waste.

«Ceramic - type of crowns can be used in dogs, but remember we are dealing with a patient that does not have the «power to reason,» and you can tell a human not to chew on a hard piece of candy or «do not bite down on a steak bone» (as in human dentistry), but the pet goes outside and chews on the fence instead or picks up a piece of firewood and carries it across the back yard — and shatters the ceramic crown — kind of like dropping a heavy metal soup spoon into a porcelain sink in the kitchen.

If your dog uses the shed or stack of firewood, coat these with cayenne pepper, bitter apple, or other aversive substances dogs dislike.

To help prevent the introduction of nonnative species the following items may not be brought to the park: pets; live or potted plants; soil; cut flowers; firewood or any untreated, unfinished wood (including hiking sticks); corrugated boxes; tools or equipment with attached soil; motorized vehicles; bicycles; and single - use plastic grocery bags.

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

Mangroves provide firewood, charcoal, lumber and a source of tannin, the natural chemical used in tanning leather, not Only to modern man, but, in the past, also to the Maya.

Electricity is generated onsite using 216 solar photo - voltaic panels and some 250 Monterrey pine trees have been planted on the farm as part of a sustainable firewood programme.

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.

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.

It's good old fashioned black carbon soot — a visible pollutant with measurable effects on human health both in poor places, where it comes from cooking or heating using coal, firewood or dung, and rich countries, where it is produced mainly through the combustion of diesel and similar fuels and from some industries.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

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.

If they did care they would minimise their use of fossil fuel and increase their use of sustainable 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.»

One of these sources could be bamboo, a cash crop with many uses and benefits: rapid growth, high income potential, source of firewood and easy to convert to charcoal.

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...

Wood is best used as a fuel outside cities, in small towns and rural areas, where the cost of firewood and population density are lower.

In 1775, a group of Loyalists chopped down the old tree and used it for firewood.

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.

Trunks and large limbs do usually go to firewood, but for sale, not for use of the property owner, many of whom prefer the convenience of fossil fuels for heating.

«Otherwise CDM would just result in either [carbon] leakage [e.g. through unplanned use of forestry for firewood]... or have negative welfare implications for the poor» (p. 329).

Assuming the heater is 80 % efficient, and using well - seasoned firewood, Ernst estimates output at 220,000 BtuBritish thermal unit, the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water (about a pint) one degree Fahrenheit in temperature — about the heat content of one wooden kitchen match.