AGRO-FORESTRY PROGRAM
NARAD
plants 50,000 biofuel trees
NARAD, the first partner of CleanStar's Plant-a-Biofuel-Tree
Campaign, has just finished planting 50,000 biofuel
trees as fences for small farms in Thane district,
Maharashtra.
Learn
more about biofuel trees on our
campaign website >>
CLEAN ENERGY PROGRAM
Potential partners in the
semi-arid tropics show interest in the Mobile Oil Processing
Unit
Development
practitioners and entrepreneurs in energy-deprived areas of Haiti and Kenya see
the CleanStar MOPU as an efficient way of processing
locally-available oilseeds
to benefit local communities with additional income and
access to clean energy for electricity, transport and
cooking.
To
learn more about MOPU, contact us!
AWARENESS & ADVOCACY
PROGRAM
The
Climate Project India (TCPI) & CleanStar Trust (CST) conduct 2-day teacher
training program in local language
In
association with NGO ALERT, the Maharashtra Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Lions Club, Vanrai and the Pune
Municipal Corporation (PMC), TCPI and CST
trained 170 PMC school teachers on climate change
related issues as the first step to ignite young minds
and their teachers.
Shashank
Verma, Darshan Doshi and Archana Devar presented
the CleanStar case study in Hindi
& Marathi. Participants related well to the environmental
issues and need for solutions presented as many were
from small towns that lack economic opportunities and
environmental leadership.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING & NETWORKING
Voices from Abroad
As part of our
effort to promote international knowledge sharing, the CleanStar Trust
Newsletter will feature contributions from around the
world.
This month, Tayeb
Noorbhai, a recent graduate in Development Studies from Oxford
University, shares
his views on Jatropha in Tanzania.
Jatropha has emerged as a key
biofuel feedstock option in Tanzania. This is not due to any
form of government planning, blending mandates or state
support. Much to the contrary, Jatropha is being developed
through NGO collaboration and grassroots initiatives.
In
Northern Tanzania, Jatropha has been used for decades,
giving rise to its common name in Tanzania, mbono
kaburini (graveyard Jatropha) – a common tree to
demarcate boundaries.
Read
full piece here >>
