Project Gaia Wins a 2010 Sustainable Biofuels Award at the World

Biofuels Conference in Amsterdam for its work with the Dometic

CleanCook stove.

March 16, 2010

Posted at www.projectgaia.com

On March 16, Project Gaia won the 2010 Sustainable Biofuels Award for Adoption at the
World Biofuels Markets Conference in Amsterdam.

In the past, this award has

been given to governments,
municipal vehicle fleets and
new users who have made the
switch to biofuels. Project
Gaia’s efforts will lead to a
significant new market for
bioethanol—cooking fuel.

Over 3 billion people around

the world are dependent on
solid fuels, which produce
smoke and toxic gases when
burned. Poor indoor air quality
in developing country homes is
believed to contribute to 2
million deaths a year and high
rates of respiratory disease,
Boma Anga and Meghan Sapp accept the Biofuels Adoption
Award for Project Gaia from World Biofuels Markets especially among women and
representatives Nadim Chaudhry and Laila Manji. young children. Over and over
again, it has been shown that
even the poorest consumers desire to switch to cleaner, safer and more convenient cooking
fuels. As a result, cooking represents a major new market for clean liquid biofuels.

Project Gaia, Inc. is leading with the Dometic CleanCook stove. This stove represents Best
Available Technology and was selected as the result of a world-wide search. This alcohol
stove was first developed in the 1970s by a Swedish company, ORIGO, and is now owned
by the Dometic Group. Dometic AB has been a contributor to this effort.

The Sustainable Biofuels Awards are sponsored each year by Green Power Conferences
(Green Thinking Ltd.). Established in 2003, Green Power was the first to organize events
for the biofuels and sustainability industry. It is the leading convener of such events.

The Sustainable Biofuels Awards recognize the ingenuity and innovation of organizations
that use biofuels to promote sustainability. Project Gaia Inc. believes the Dometic stove will
significantly displace the use of fuelwood, charcoal, dung, and expensive, imported
petroleum fuels.

The judging panel was comprised of ten individuals: Raffaello Garofalo, Secretary General of
EBB; Rob Vierhout, Secretary General of Ebio, Ausilio Bauen, Director of E4 Tech, Jonathan
Kingsman, CEO of Kingsman, Kevin McGeeney, CEO of Starsupply Renewables, Marcos
Sawaya Jank, CEO of UNICA, Graeme Wallace, Director General of EFOA, Jim Lane, Editor of
Biofuels Digest, Suzanne Hunt, Principal of Hunt Green LLC, and Prof. Dr. Andre P.C. Faaij of
the Copernicus Institute.
Mr. Boma Anga of Cassava Agro Industries, Nigeria, and Meghan Sapp of PANGEA accepted
the award on Project Gaia's behalf. Boma Anga leads the National “Bio-Kero” Project, which
matches micro distilleries with CleanCook stoves and other appliances to enable SMEs to
produce ethanol for sale directly to a market created by placing ethanol-powered appliances
in the community around the distillery. This provides a distributed energy system where
clean, liquid biofuels are produced and consumed in the community. The project’s ultimate
goal is to make household energy affordable, available, and accessible for all Nigerians.

Meghan Sapp is Secretary General of PANGEA (Partners for Euro-African Green Energy), a
non-profit membership organization based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes sustainable
African bioenergy production, investment, and policy development. Project Gaia is a
member of PANGEA.

For more information, please see:

http://www.worldbiofuelsmarkets.com/award_winners_2010.html

Alternative Energy Africa (AEA) Readers Select Project Gaia as One

of Africa’s Best Renewable Projects for 2009.

The March-April 2010 issue of Alternative

Energy Africa took reader nominations for
the Best African Renewable Energy Projects
for 2009. Project Gaia was the first of four
projects to be recognized. In announcing its
selections, AEA said: “The year 2009 saw
the continent gaining momentum in the
[renewable energy] sector and many large
scale projects were announced or moved
forward . . . . We highlight a few of the
lesser known, smaller projects that had a
tangible impact.”

AEA, which states its purpose as “Filling the

Energy Information Gap in Africa,”
applauded Project Gaia for its focus on
renewable energy for the household. The
article, which appears on page 17 of the
magazine (Vol. 3, Issue 2), highlights
Project Gaia's work to develop the
CleanCook stove in Ethiopia, and the work
of its partner organization, Gaia Association,
to take the project through from the
research to the implementation or
commercialization stage.

Other projects recognized in “Africa’s Top Projects for 2009” include a biodiesel production
operation in Kenya that manufactures biodiesel from croton and castor seeds, an LED
lighting project in Tanzania, and a biogas project in Ghana.

The March-April issue of Alternative Energy Africa is available by subscription on the web at
www.AE-Africa.com.