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a small cookstove that would be appropriate for an apartment
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Distributing solar lanterns, clean cookstoves, and low-energy microgrids to poor villagers might make those handing them out feel good.
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Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
In Africa, Southeast Asia, and the western Pacific, where many rely on cookstoves that use wood or dung, rural and poor people are more affected by smoke.
—Judy Stone, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Eighteen years later, as secretary of state in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Clinton supported an ambitious effort to put energy-efficient, environmentally friendly cookstoves in the kitchens of 100 million poor women around the world.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
The panel also discussed a new CGI commitment to create a global market for clean cookstoves by the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Foundation, the World Food Program, Royal Dutch Shell, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other public and private partners.
—Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2010
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Ted Nordhaus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2016
In Africa, Southeast Asia, and the western Pacific, where many rely on cookstoves that use wood or dung, rural and poor people are more affected by smoke.
—Judy Stone, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Eighteen years later, as secretary of state in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, Clinton supported an ambitious effort to put energy-efficient, environmentally friendly cookstoves in the kitchens of 100 million poor women around the world.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016
The panel also discussed a new CGI commitment to create a global market for clean cookstoves by the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Foundation, the World Food Program, Royal Dutch Shell, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other public and private partners.
—Sheril Kirshenbaum, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2010
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“Cookstove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cookstove. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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cookstove
noun
cook·stove
-ˌstōv 
: a stove for cooking
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