Why biomass charcoal cooking stoves are saving lives, with Ziwa Hillington from Green Bioenergy

Cooking is an everyday activity that most people engage in. In places where you don’t have gas, charcoal is often used to fire up a stove. Whilst people have been doing this for years, it is not very environmentally friendly, and it generates smoke in often confined areas of a home. Green Bioenergy is a social enterprise all about creating a clean cooking environment. Their two products are an improved cooking stove and smokeless charcoal briquettes. Ziwa and I discuss how they sell briquettes through rural agents, how they keep the complete supply chain produced in Uganda, and the prospects for taking this approach internationally. We conducted the interview in the garden of the Green Bioenergy office/ house and so there might be the odd bird tweeting in the background. Either way, I hope this doesn’t distract you from the interesting chat that we have. READ MORE AT:https://theeastafricabusinesspodcast.com/2016/11/30/clean-cooking-using-renewable-biomass-charcoal-to-create-a-sustainable-smokeless-kitchen-with-ziwa-hillington-of-green-bioenergy/