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With a “jugaad” mindset embedded in the culture, India has no shortage of social innovators cooking up solutions to the world’s ills.
As a matter of fact, the Greenway Grameen Infra (GGI) team from India has just been announced as the winners of the 2012 Intel Global Challenge at UC Berkeley, receiving $50,000 from the Intel Foundation on their invention of a biomass-based stove that increases fuel efficiency.
Open fires and traditional mud stoves are still used for cooking by nearly 3 billion people around the world. But these are damaging to the environment and lead to premature deaths.
GGI’s flagship product, the Greenway Smart Stove, has a unique air-flow generator that saves fuel consumption by up to 65 percent and reduces smoke output by 70 percent.
Since commercially launching the product in December of 2011, the team has sold more than 12,000 units.
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