Source: Inhabitat

Across the Himalayas, rural farmers and villagers rely on open, wood-fuelled fires inside their homes to cook their meals. The sheer amount of smoke created in these unventilated homes makes thousands of people ill every year, especially the women and children who do the cooking and spend most of their time indoors. In fact, lung diseases caused by household air pollution kills at least 23 people a day in Nepal alone. The Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grassroots organization that’s working with these families and teaching them how to build permanent, healthier ovens in their homes. These stoves are created from bricks made with local materials, and not only do they use far less fuel that open cooking fires do, all smoke is whisked out of the house through a chimney pipe.

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