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Project Gaia Wins Two Awards - March 2010
Project Gaia Wins Two Awards - March 2010
On March 16, Project Gaia won the 2010 Sustainable Biofuels Award for Adoption at the
World Biofuels Markets Conference in Amsterdam.
Project Gaia, Inc. is leading with the Dometic CleanCook stove. This stove represents Best
Available Technology and was selected as the result of a world-wide search. This alcohol
stove was first developed in the 1970s by a Swedish company, ORIGO, and is now owned
by the Dometic Group. Dometic AB has been a contributor to this effort.
The Sustainable Biofuels Awards are sponsored each year by Green Power Conferences
(Green Thinking Ltd.). Established in 2003, Green Power was the first to organize events
for the biofuels and sustainability industry. It is the leading convener of such events.
The Sustainable Biofuels Awards recognize the ingenuity and innovation of organizations
that use biofuels to promote sustainability. Project Gaia Inc. believes the Dometic stove will
significantly displace the use of fuelwood, charcoal, dung, and expensive, imported
petroleum fuels.
The judging panel was comprised of ten individuals: Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General of
EBB; Rob Vierhout, Secretary General of Ebio, Ausilio Bauen, Director of E4 Tech, Jonathan
Kingsman, CEO of Kingsman, Kevin McGeeney, CEO of Starsupply Renewables, Marcos
Sawaya Jank, CEO of UNICA, Graeme Wallace, Director General of EFOA, Jim Lane, Editor of
Biofuels Digest, Suzanne Hunt, Principal of Hunt Green LLC, and Prof. Dr. Andre P.C. Faaij of
the Copernicus Institute.
Mr. Boma Anga of Cassava Agro Industries, Nigeria, and Meghan Sapp of PANGEA accepted
the award on Project Gaia's behalf. Boma Anga leads the National “Bio-Kero” Project, which
matches micro distilleries with CleanCook stoves and other appliances to enable SMEs to
produce ethanol for sale directly to a market created by placing ethanol-powered appliances
in the community around the distillery. This provides a distributed energy system where
clean, liquid biofuels are produced and consumed in the community. The project’s ultimate
goal is to make household energy affordable, available, and accessible for all Nigerians.
Meghan Sapp is Secretary General of PANGEA (Partners for Euro-African Green Energy), a
non-profit membership organization based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes sustainable
African bioenergy production, investment, and policy development. Project Gaia is a
member of PANGEA.
Other projects recognized in “Africa’s Top Projects for 2009” include a biodiesel production
operation in Kenya that manufactures biodiesel from croton and castor seeds, an LED
lighting project in Tanzania, and a biogas project in Ghana.
The March-April issue of Alternative Energy Africa is available by subscription on the web at
www.AE-Africa.com.