Aprovecho Research Center (ARC) consultants have been designing and implementing improved biomass cooking and heating technologies in more than 60 countries worldwide for more than 30 years. The Center was formally established in 1976, and is dedicated to researching, developing and disseminating clean cookstove technologies for meeting the basic needs of refugees, impoverished people, and communities in the developing world. For decades, ARC has been the world’s leader in open source development of all aspects of improved cooking stoves.
The Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!) was established in 2008 with the mission of helping rural populations in the developing world cope with water, food and fuel shortages resulting from the impact of climate change on their communities. Using a participatory approach and appropriate technologies, CREATE! works with communities in rural Senegal to identify and meet their needs in three primary sectors: water, food and energy & environment.
Institutional Stove Solutions (InStove) is an Oregon non-profit, humanitarian organization with a global mission: to change the way half the world cooks. We are world leaders in the creation of high-efficiency, institutional cookstoves. Our 60 and 100 Liter Stoves are cutting-edge technology purposed for use by the poorest of the poor in economically developing countries that simultaneously address a range of critical global health and environmental issues.
MAPLE Microdevelopment was established by UO students and their faculty advisor in 2008. MAPLE works with community-managed savings groups in post-conflict Uganda and with indigenous Mapuche communities in Chile to develop sustainable businesses and access to financial services. MAPLE mission is the increase the financial autonomy, self-governance, and sustainability of communities across generations. The organization is a U.S. 501c3 non-profit organization and a registered educational company in Uganda.
StoveTeam International addresses environmental and health problems caused by open fire cooking in Latin America by helping establish locally owned factories to produce fuel-efficient, safe, portable Ecocina cookstoves. Since 2007 we have helped establish six factories in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. In total those factories have produced and sold more than 35,000 stoves, positively impacting the health and livelihoods of over 260,000 people. We are currently working to establish three new stove projects in Mexico-in Oaxaca, Morelia, and Chiapas-areas of high need for clean, wood-burning cookstoves.
StoveTec was created in the fall of 2008 as a not-just-for-profit entity that would act as the technology transfer recipient for Aprovecho Research Center. StoveTec’s mission is to deliver clean and efficient cook stoves to the nearly 3 billion people that currently cook over an open fire or an unimproved cook stove. StoveTec’s mission is to also provide fuel efficient cook stoves for survival situations when traditional fuels may not be available or are in short supply, camping and other recreational uses as well as efficient stoves for commercial and mass cooking needs. StoveTec Stoves replace dirty, polluting unimproved stoves and open fires, saving 40 to 50 percent of fuel and reducing 55 to 70 percent of harmful emissions. StoveTec has shipped over 70,000 stoves internationally over the past two years to countries including India, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Chile, Argentina, the Marshall Islands, and Haiti.
