How to … ETHOS 2021

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For Presentation group sessions, please watch any of the 10-minute talks of interest to you ahead of the scheduled live session. The hour-long live session will be spent discussing the talks prepared for that session. While presenters will give a 1-minute reminder of their talk at the beginning, the sessions will proceed on the assumption that you’ve already viewed the 10-minute talks ahead of time. (Video links will be posted below as received starting Friday 1/22/21) There is no pre-work for the 1 hour Panel sessions.

Please see the “Further Instructions” tab for further instructions. 🙂

Full details by day are listed below this table.

DayTime GMTTime ESTTopic
Mon 1/253:00 PM10:00 AMIntroduction
3:15 PM10:15 AMKirk Smith tribute
3:30 PM10:30 AMPanel: From implementation to impact – Measuring longer-term impact on stakeholder goals
4:30 PM11:30 AMPresentation group: Stoves and Fuels
5:30 PM12:30 PMSmall group discussion: Ways to achieve the cleanest possible burn in a TLUD,
Spatial Chat room  “Clean-Burning TLUD Group”
Tue 1/263:00 PM10:00 AMPanel: Regional Testing & Knowledge Centers
4:00 PM11:00 AMHallway time!
4:30 PM11:30 AMPresentation group: Monitoring and testing systems
5:30 PM12:30 PMSmall group discussion: Ultra Low Cost (>$2) Cookstoves – Affordable by All without Subsidies
Spatial Chat room “Ultra Low-Cost Stoves Group”
Wed 1/273:00 PM10:00 AMPanel: Business model innovation
4:00 PM11:00 AMHallway time!
4:30 PM11:30 AMPresentation group: Energy resources in  communities
5:30 PM12:30 PMSmall group discussion: space available upon request
Thu 1/283:00 PM10:00 AMPanel: You Get What You Incentivize – What should donors value (and stop valuing) to yield effective programs 
4:00 PM11:00 AMHallway time!
4:30 PM11:30 AMPresentation group: Toward diverse testing methods for complex systems
5:30 PM12:30 PMSmall group discussion: space available upon request
Fri 1/293:00 PM10:00 AMPanel: Field Perspectives on Adoption
4:00 PM11:00 AMHallway time!
4:30 PM11:30 AMPresentation group: Resources for scale
5:30 PM12:30 PMSmall group discussion: space available upon request

MONDAY

Monday Plenary Panel: From implementation to impact – Measuring longer-term impact on stakeholder goals

While all projects have the best intentions for real-world impacts, sometimes projects turn out differently than we would expect as we move along the time scale from implementation to short-term outcomes and long-term impacts. In the wise words of the late Kirk Smith, “We don’t get what we expect, we get what we inspect” indicating how important measuring the true outcomes may be. This panel will highlight how global partners seek to quantify these longer-term impacts of projects to determine which stakeholder goals have or have not been met and in what ways.

Panelists: Nuhu Amin, Stanford collaborator in Rohingya camps in Bangladesh; Thomas Thivillon, PhD candidate in development economics, PSL University; Olivier Lefebvre, Climate Solutions Consulting; Gemara Gifford, Trees Water People; Ricardo Piedrahita, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group; Danny Wilson, Geocene

Monday Presentation Group: Stoves and Fuels

Dale Andreatta: Solar Household Energy-9 Ways to Use the Sun:
https://youtu.be/JMeDVMHK3pI

Kevin McLean: Rock Beds Update:
https://youtu.be/xTzWal7vyBg

Ken Newcombe: CQuest Capital 2020-2021: Stove in a Box and the SSM Jet-Flame:
https://youtu.be/a9gKuLqpzAk

Mark Chiveya: The Unique and Advantageous Features of the Bhundu Tsotso (bush twigs) Stove:
https://youtu.be/7EsHzDLK15s

Dave Lello: FabStove Gasifier: An open source forced-air gasifier engine kit design:
https://youtu.be/B4Pate18Zqk

Julien Caubel & Vi Rapp: Opportunities for advancing residential wood heating technologies:
https://youtu.be/ej-evRUROvk

Pete Schwartz: Insulated Solar Electric Cooking With Thermal Storage: More Power and Versatility!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49LM0icDKwI

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TUESDAY

Tuesday Plenary Panel: Updates from the Regional Testing & Knowledge Centers

This panel will bring together leaders from several Regional Testing & Knowledge Centers to share their latest challenges and activities.  The panel will provide a forum to exchange learnings on topics such application of new protocols, communications with clients, use of instrumentation, business development ideas, and others.  

Panelists: Agnes Naluwagga, Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Kampala, Uganda; Cosmas Anyanwu, University of Nigeria; Victor Ruiz Garcia, LINEB, UNAM-Morelia, Mexico; Marcelo Gorritty, Stoves Research Center, Bolivia; Professor Chunyu Xue, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China; Professor Yuguang Zhao, China Agricultural University, China; Bastiaan Teune, SNV, Cambodia

Tuesday Presentation Group: Monitoring and Testing Systems

Kelsey Bilsback: A Laboratory Assessment of 120 Air Pollutant Emissions from Biomass and Fossil Fuel Cookstoves:
https://youtu.be/XdCIHYZZUzo

Olivier Lefebvre: Using Stove Use Monitors to measure the contribution of different PM sources to personal exposure in a context of fuel and stove stacking:
https://youtu.be/6CXGb0mgPjo 

Sam Bentson: Measuring realtime firepower while cooking with a portable total capture emissions sampler:
https://youtu.be/nbQN-s5BdIE

Ryan Thompson: Friday night slides:
https://youtu.be/h9KprcTlVN4 

David Evitt: Monitoring Exhaust Oxygen for Performance Insights with Jet-Flame Under-Fire Forced Air: 
https://youtu.be/BVtXbY5ANCA

Matthew R. Jones and Randy Lewis: Systems to Monitor Cookstove Emissions Based on Low-Cost Sensors:
https://youtu.be/KQH4hcKvf90

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WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Plenary Panel: Business Model Innovation for Scale

Clean cooking is a 3-billion person problem. Impacting this problem requires solutions that have meaningful performance, adoption, and scale (I=PAS). This panel will focus on innovative business models that can scale to create impact in the clean cooking sector. Our panelists operate enterprises and agencies that aim for scale (>100k customers). In this session, panelists will answer the question “how will my organization’s business model achieve impact through scale?”

Panelists: Brenda Biteete, Private Sector Foundation Uganda; Ken Newcombe, C-Quest Capital; Richard Lawrence, Proyecto Mirador & Cool Effect; Ankit Mathur, Greenway Appliances; Peter Scott, Burn Manufacturing

Wednesday Presentation Group: Energy and Communities

Grace Gius and Olivia Hansel: Global Learning Community for ISEC Development and Dissemination:
https://youtu.be/HpUwanw8adk

Lisa Tang: Livable Himalayan Homes: Results from Preliminary Household Surveys:
https://youtu.be/1gbkaxgC39o

Thomas Miles: Biochar is a Farmer’s Best Friend (Kenya):
https://youtu.be/_LP8ap533eM

Rebecca Apica & Jonas Bervoets: Lessons on Uganda’s Stove Adoption and Market Development:
https://youtu.be/YvZXPqbYKKY

Christa Roth: Progress on Chitofu 3in1, climate friendly fish processing technology in Malawi:
https://youtu.be/QFXrvq9rXaI

Gemara Gifford and Sebastian Africano: The Future of Biomass Cookstoves in Honduras: Public Health &  Community Development Perspectives:
https://youtu.be/lUA9l7knyBI

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THURSDAY

Thursday Plenary Panel: You Get What You Incentivize – What donors should value (and stop valuing) to yield effective programs

Programs that mean to improve household and community energy sources are driven by many motivations. Some of these motivations align with physical, social and programmatic principles that yield lasting improvement in the situations of the target population, and some do not. Failures teach lessons that can improve future endeavors, but they need to be discussed and evaluated honestly. Seeds of success should be identified, too. Panelists will discuss how donor motivations have led to program designs that are aligned or misaligned with real-world success, and everyone is requested to participate in the spirit of honesty and future improvements. 

Panelists: Sebastian Africano, Trees Water People; Evan Thomas, UC Boulder; Carlo Talamanca, Otago; Rebecca Wentworth, Burn Manufacturing Co., Elisha Moore-Delate, UNCDF

Thursday Presentation Group: Toward Diverse Testing Methods for Complex systems

Paul Medwell: A Conceptual Framework for Clean Cooking Stove Systems:
https://youtu.be/pNELODwumiY

Mouhsine Serrar and Jiddu Broersma: The Air Tray Concept and Test Methods:
https://youtu.be/k1hmopG_X-o

Nikhil Desai: Stove Testing, Performance, and Use: Have we got it backwards?:
https://youtu.be/4aCxLrIsAi0

Elisa Derby: Update on ISO TC 285 WG#4: Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment:
https://youtu.be/kNCWH4xbu0s

Cheryl Weyant: ISO Cookstove field testing standard:
https://youtu.be/hnm6Rf2ugA8 

Harold Annegarn: Reflections on the purpose of stove testing – a multifaceted conceptual approach:
https://youtu.be/pHIlQMhzfKo

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FRIDAY

Friday Plenary Panel: Field Perspectives on Adoption

This session will focus on the adoption component of the I=PAS equation, which as we’ve discussed this week reminds us that impact is a function of performance, adoption and scale. Full impact benefits require that cooks acquire, maintain and use clean and efficient technologies and fuels correctly, consistently and exclusively. Rarely does that happen in actual practice for our sector. How can we do better? Panelists will share their experiences and lessons learned over years of research and implementation, working to understand and influence adoption in the field.

Panelists: Mbumba Chigalu, National Cookstove Steering Committee, Malawi; Nafisah Abubakar, Head of Secretariat, RUWES, Nigeria; Alison Filler, International Lifeline Fund; Michael Johnson, Berkeley Air Monitoring Group

Presentation group: Resources for Scale

Chenkai Wang: Updates on manufacturing capacity at Shengzhou Stove Manufacturer (SSM):
https://youtu.be/yM36s7cupjU

Dean Still: Clean Burning Biomass Cookstoves 2nd Edition (2021):
https://youtu.be/Wg-v3F3jxhs

Paul Anderson: Financing cookstoves with a gigatonne of CO2 climate benefits per year:
https://youtu.be/U186ZvWPslA

Emily Floess: Low-bandwidth animated video to communicate risks of Indoor Air Pollution:
https://youtu.be/G1wdGaKbN2c

Anobha Gurung: Development Of A Spatial Platform To Support Clean Cooking In Nepal:
https://youtu.be/slbO7nL5r5g