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22 Colo. J. Int'l Envtl. L. & Pol'y 251 (2011)
How Can the Rural Energy Poor Obtain Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies

handle is hein.journals/colenvlp22 and id is 255 raw text is: How Can the Rural Energy Poor Obtain Appropriate Sustainable Energy Technologies? Michael Waggoner* ABSTRACT Solutions to a current serious problem for the rural energy poor might best be found at least in part in older practices. The problem comes from cooking over open fires, impairing the health of the cook and of others in her family, using fuel so inefficiently as to threaten forests, and releasing soot that contributes to global warming. Small, cheap, reliable cooking stoves could address these issues, improving health by reducing smoke and exhausting it through a chimney and thus away from the cook, using fuel more efficiently so that less needs to be gathered, and more completely burning the fuel so that less soot is released. Older practices may most effectively put such stoves into the hands of the rural energy poor: Traveling merchants once sold small tools in rural areas. More recently they have sold cellular phones, and now they can sell the stoves. They might also sell water filters and other small appliances, reducing costs by spreading them over more products. A problem here is that many developing nation governments are bureaucratic, unfriendly to business, or even corrupt, and these barriers to commerce hurt the energy poor. Reforming markets and politics, while of course important to people in business, is also important to those needing better access to energy. The U.S. has a long tradition of county agricultural extension agents serving as a bridge between farms and ranches, on the one hand, and agricultural universities on the other. The agricultural universities are in * Associate Professor, Law School, University of Colorado. A.B., European History, Stanford University; L.L.B., Harvard Law School. Professor Waggoner has written several recent articles about carbon taxes. Richard Johnson of the class of 2013 ably assisted in preparing this article.

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