Author: Nabindra Raj Shrestha Electric cooking practices have become increasingly popular in recent years, as people look for more energy-efficient and sustainable cooking methods. However, promoting electric cooking practices in remote areas is not without its challenges. Recently, PEEDA conducted Electric Cooking Outreach (ECO) Follow-Up Study in wards 1 and 2 of Nehcha Salyan rural municipality of Solukhumbu district to understand the impacts of ECO pilot studies on cooking practices in the communities over a longer timeframe. This article presents the major obstacles we noticed to the widespread adoption of E-cooking practices in the areas under study. One of the...

Main Author: Surendra Pandit  Binda Koirala (Subedi), a housewife, age 35, a local resident of Salyan village in Solukhumbu district has been cooking food for her family in an open woodfire since ages. She recalls the days when she had to collect sufficient firewood for a week from the forest since dawn in the morning.  This could take an entire day in the process. Still, she is using open wood fuel for cooking daily food items which fills her entire house with the smoke produced from firewoods. Sometimes, situations have become worse when the fire-wood is not properly dry, as...

Main Author: Topaz Maitland On Friday 8th February 2019, HP Net (Hydro Empowerment Network) which is a collection of micro-hydro experts and associates from across South and South-East Asia, conducted a meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, to discuss key recommendations to bring forward to HP Net’s newly appointed board of directors. Biraj Gautam, Topaz Maitland and Monica Sallares represented PEEDA at the meeting. There are over 3000 installed micro-hydro plants (MHPs) in Nepal. Of these, a third are estimated to be operating reasonably, a third are operating with difficulties, and a third are barely functioning if at all. There are many...

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Dis-believing each other…. It takes many years to build trust but it takes mere seconds to break that trust. In the context of Nepal, we as a citizen belonging to different caste, ethnic group, culture, language, geography etc. do lack that intangible part namely to trust. We are not in a mode to trust each other and are limiting our self in the boundary of ancestral thoughts that are demarcated as social taboos.  Learning disability is not only limited to “higher class people” but may be also to so-called “Discriminated people”. As depicted by “Dr. Pukar Malla” duirng my leadership...

Nepal is in a devastating scenario where the demand for energy is increasing at a faster pace. People are consuming more energy as compared to their predecessors. Energy consumption per capita is directly proportional to the economy of the country. For example; the Americans have the highest per capita energy consumption followed by Japanese and Europeans. It’s our duty to change behavior that could significantly reduce the chaos in the energy supply system of Nepal. Some of the minor steps that could prove beneficial for lower energy consumption are highlighted as follows; Shutting down the computer, television, radio and other...