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Subject: Energy, poverty, and climate change
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Subject: Energy, poverty, and climate change
From: "Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)" <in...@ssireview.org>
Date: Thu, December 11, 2008 3:22 pm
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E+Co connects the dots between energy, poverty, and the environment
Across much of the developing world, the dinner hour comes with a billow of smoke. That's because many of the world's 2 billion people who live without electricity continue to cook with wood, dung, and charcoal. These solid fuels may seem cheap, but their hidden costs are quite high. Burning them sends carbon into the atmosphere, exacerbating global warming. And the indoor air pollution they cause leads to chronic, even fatal, respiratory disease.
"One of the myths is that poor people cannot afford to buy modern energy," laments Phil LaRocco, cofounder and CEO of E+Co, an energy investment firm headquartered in Bloomfield, N.J. "That's nonsense! People pay dearly for 19th-century energy."
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