http://www.podtech.net/home/4611/the-guatemala-cookstove-project-fighting-disease-and-improving-living-conditions Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:59:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.podtech.net/home/4611/the-guatemala-cookstove-project-fighting-disease-and-improving-living-conditions#comment-247103 best techno blogs » The Guatemala Cookstove Project: Fighting Disease and Improving Living Conditions Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:15:28 +0000 http://www.podtech.net/home/4611/the-guatemala-cookstove-project-fighting-disease-and-improving-living-conditions#comment-247103 [...] In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women, who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a safer way to cook, O’Neal developed the ONIL stove, using strong, inexpensive ceramic lining and a steel chimney, it is designed to suit the needs of traditional Guatemalan cooking, and for its … Original Post PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network [...] […] In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women, who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a safer way to cook, O’Neal developed the ONIL stove, using strong, inexpensive ceramic lining and a steel chimney, it is designed to suit the needs of traditional Guatemalan cooking, and for its … Original Post PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network […]

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