It’s one of the great under-recognized threats around the globe: cooking smoke. In developing nations the world over, women cook with crude wood-burning stoves, often in exceedingly poorly ventilated houses and rooms. The smoke poses not only a dangerous health risk — the toxic smoke coats the lungs of family members, especially endangering women, who typically spend more time indoors by the stove, and children. So this year, at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announced the creation of the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, a US-lead effort to bring safer, and yes, cl… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Invests $50 Million in Cleaner Cook Stoves
