Tag: cookstoves

Tyler Prize honors Kirk Smith’s work on air pollution and health

Public Health's Kirk Smith wins international environmental award

March 20, 2012:

Kirk Smith, UC Berkeley professor of global environmental health, has been named one of two winners of the prestigious 2012 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The award recognizes Smith’s work identifying the health hazards of household smoke from cookstoves, a major source of air pollution in the developing world and a contributor to climate change.

Ashok Gadgil wins Zayed lifetime-achievement award

January 20, 2012:

Ashok Gadgil, a UC Berkeley engineering professor and a division director at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 2012 Zayed Future Energy Prize, given for innovation, leadership and vision in renewable energy and sustainability. Gadgil was recognized for his sustainable humanitarian work in Darfur, providing healthier, energy-efficient “Berkeley-Darfur” cooking stoves. More than 1,100 nominations were submitted for prize.