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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Harnessing biogas in Rural China


One of the featured projects from the Ashden Awards.

The Shaanxi Mothers' Environmental Protection Volunteer Association (Shaanxi Mothers) is led by its founder Mrs Wang Mingying. It has installed 1,294 biogas plants in rural farming households in the Shaanxi Province of China since 1999. The plants produce biogas from pig and human waste.
Xu Wenjian, Party Secretary, Miao Zuigou Village, Zou Yuan town, near Yan'an, with his biogas light and stove.


Click the following links for more details

Official Site (Ashden Awards)
Video (Ashden Awards)


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