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Slum Cooker Protects Environment, Helps Poor

This cooker is a community resource which will burn the rubbish, save the forest and provide hot water for slum dwellers and people on fefugee camps. This one has been set up in  Kibera in Nairobiin Kenya. It has taken a long time to design a cooker that will turn at a high enough temperature to break down the toxins.

Now the Kenyan Red Cross is preparing to install similar cookers in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps near the Somali border, where cholera has already broken out this year, and at least one European aid organisation is looking at wide deployment.

Juma Ochieng of the Red Cross told Reuters the Community Cooker had benefits for health, sanitation and conservation, and would create employment for young people working to build and maintain the stoves.

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How green is your wardrobe?

Do you consume more or less than the average 35kg of textiles per year? What happens to it? Does most of it end up in the bin? Or do you recycle it? Here is an article looking at the issues.

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