November 2008: Issue Eight: Page  1

Heading Photos: Top - Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO), Chair of the Event, gives his opening remarks at the CEES/REEP D.C. Briefing

Bottom - Dr. Bryan Willson speaks to CEES Staff & Volunteers about cook stoves at the CSU Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory

U.S. Senators and International Experts Meet at CEES-Organized Event to Discuss Energy Justice Kelly Crandall; CEES 2L Volunteer One and a half billion of the 2.5 billion people living in poverty worldwide live on less than a dollar a day. They meet their cooking, heating, and lighting needs primarily by burning biomass. The vast majority of these energy-oppressed poor may never benefit from large-scale electricity production and grid extension projects. Access to intermediate energy technologies, such as improved cooking stoves, could prevent 1.6 million premature deaths each year from pneumonia, carbon monoxide, lung cancer, and other illnesses caused by indoor air pollution, while also meeting the basic energy needs of the impoverished. Moreover, recent peer-reviewed studies indicate that such technologies could substantially reduce the production of black soot, mitigating the effects of global climate change. Removing barriers to sustainable development by improving access to alternative energy technologies is a primary goal of CEES’ Energy Justice Program. In order to raise the profile of energy justice challenges facing the developing world, CEES collaborated with the Austria-based Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) to host a policy briefing at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2008. See Energy Justice, Page 2 http://www.reeep.org/Page2.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1
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CEES Profile: Jonah Levine, Senior Professional Research Assistant Kate Gerth; CEES 1L Volunteer Whenever a CEES member has a problem requiring serious science or engineering chops, the member immediately turns to the one and only—Jonah Levine. Although he’s the office guru on engineering, Jonah is multitalented. “He’s tremendously flexible,” says CEES Research Fellow Adam Reed, “he can cogently speak ecology, engineering, and policy all in the same paragraph.” After getting his BS in Applied Ecology and Environmental Science, Jonah began working as a field biologist, first in South Dakota and then New Mexico, where he studied species such as swift foxes, grey wolves, and spotted owls. See Levine, Page 6  Page6.htmlshapeimage_7_link_0