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Haiti's Green Future
Publication Date:
5 February 2010
Dateline:
Washington D.C.
Former president Bill Clinton has been beating the drum of alternative cooking fuel for Haiti since he became U.N. special envoy to the nation in 2009. With what he calls his “one cent solution,” Clinton has sought to replace charcoal with round cooking briquettes made of recycled paper that create ten to twenty times more jobs than charcoal production and are 80 percent cheaper for consumers.