Comments on: Step towards cleaner cooking in rural areas http://www.thinkchangeindia.org/2008/07/30/step-towards-cleaner-cooking-in-rural-areas/ Tracking Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:32:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Good Honest Dollar $$ » Blog Archive » Socially Responsible Investing part 5 - Does SRI really make a differenence? http://www.thinkchangeindia.org/2008/07/30/step-towards-cleaner-cooking-in-rural-areas/comment-page-1/#comment-3557 Good Honest Dollar $$ » Blog Archive » Socially Responsible Investing part 5 - Does SRI really make a differenence? Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:31:17 +0000 http://thinkchangeindia.wordpress.com/?p=841#comment-3557 [...] to a post on Think Change India, these stoves reduce toxic emissions by up to eighty per cent, whilst using [...] [...] to a post on Think Change India, these stoves reduce toxic emissions by up to eighty per cent, whilst using [...]

]]> By: Badhri http://www.thinkchangeindia.org/2008/07/30/step-towards-cleaner-cooking-in-rural-areas/comment-page-1/#comment-3558 Badhri Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:31:49 +0000 http://thinkchangeindia.wordpress.com/?p=841#comment-3558 Read about this one a little while ago. That it is successful in hundreds of villages probably indicates that the technology delivers the promise. The price still seems expensive compared to mud cooking stoves (may be the NGOs absorbed some of its cost?). There are also a few other innovative products like this one http://ruralindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/rollable-water-container-innovation-for.html targeted towards the villages. I wonder if we get so carried away by the buzz word "social entrepreneurship" that sometimes we fail to see that all we really need is social franchising (if you will). One may just setup a shop with a variety of such products, stove for better cooking, rollable water cans for more convenient way of fetching water... one product to address one factor that may increase the standard of living. On a different note, Envirofit seems to invite people to get involved in sales. None would be better sales (wo)men than people from the villages where word-of-mouth is probably the most effective marketing strategy. [sorry for the long comment, as you know...I am quite a chatter-box!] Read about this one a little while ago. That it is successful in hundreds of villages probably indicates that the technology delivers the promise.

The price still seems expensive compared to mud cooking stoves (may be the NGOs absorbed some of its cost?).

There are also a few other innovative products like this one

http://ruralindia.blogspot.com/2008/07/rollable-water-container-innovation-for.html

targeted towards the villages.

I wonder if we get so carried away by the buzz word “social entrepreneurship” that sometimes we fail to see that all we really need is social franchising (if you will).

One may just setup a shop with a variety of such products, stove for better cooking, rollable water cans for more convenient way of fetching water… one product to address one factor that may increase the standard of living.

On a different note, Envirofit seems to invite people to get involved in sales. None would be better sales (wo)men than people from the villages where word-of-mouth is probably the most effective marketing strategy. [sorry for the long comment, as you know...I am quite a chatter-box!]

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