Sustainable Grill: a solution for deforestation and air pollution | Fabio Parigi | TEDxLaRábida
About 3B people globally use solid fuels daily to cook, mainly burning cut firewood on open fires, at the lowest thermal efficiency. Open fires affect health, safety and deforestation. Cooking indoor with an open fires causes respiratory illnesses, leading to 4M premature deaths worldwide per year. Open fires can cause scalding & eye injuries. Wood harvesting for cooking increases risks of musculoskeletal injury and violence especially for children. Also, it affects biodiversity & forest preservation, leads to 20% of global GHG emissions & climate change, second only to fossil fuel burning. Economic constraints (1.2B people globally relay on <$1.25 a day) & traditions are limiting fuel evolution. Free firewood collection has no means to the private sector, thus limiting the development of global sustainable solutions for both efficient cooking and fuel management.
A promising research conducted by our team in Rajasthan, India, in late 2014 developed an insert, the Mewar Angithi, a $1 device that converts a traditional inefficient cook stove into a high efficiency cook stove. Tests performed at the Cook Stove Testing Center, Maharana Pratap University, Udaipur, India, showed that Mewar Angithi reduces wood usage by 63% and decreases soot by 89%. In field tests, we are measuring at least 40% reduction in wood use, consistently. Comparable results were found by Politecnico di Milano in spring 2018. The Sustainable Grill – Mewar Angithi solution perfectly fits into the local and social aspect of cooking and has more than 70% retention rate over 12 months time.
Since 2014 Sustainable Grill – Mewar Angithi impacts positively the life of more than 25,000 people in India, Ghana and Kenya thanks to our PARTNERS & FRIENDS: Nyumbani, Kenya – Abibiman Foundation, Ghana – Comillas University Foundation, Spain – Climate Healers & University of Iowa, U.S.A.
Production Unit
We propose a Low-cost Production Unit (LPU) that allows to produce locally 30,000 Sustainable Grill – Mewar Angithi per year with minimal training for non-technical people. The LPU includes all the necessary machines to mechanize the production. The machines could also be man-powered, therefore work OFF-grid and without electrical energy.
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Team
We are an international and multidisciplinary team of graduate professionals, NGOs, universities and social entrepreneurs who is dedicated to tackle climate change and to improve rural communities’ lifestyle in the global south.
