EcoZoom installs 10,000 cookstoves in Mexico
By Christina Williams
Sustainable Business Oregon
EcoZoom just finished installing 10,000 cookstoves across Mexico in a pilot project, including this one in Chihuahua. (Photo courtesy of EcoZoom)
EcoZoom announced Tuesday that it completed a pilot program in Mexico, replacing 10,000 cookstoves across the country with the safer, more efficient version designed especially for cooking in Latin America.
EcoZoom, a Portland-based company that is a member of the Portland State University Social Innovation Incubator, designed the stove and conducted training sessions with stove installers in seven Mexican states. The project began last April and was conducted in partnership with organizations in Mexico.
A certified B Corporation, the organization has a mission to make safer cookstoves available at a low price point to people who currently rely on unsafe cookstoves or open-fire cooking.
EcoZoom's La Mera Mera cookstove can be produced at a large scale and is easy to install.
A quarter of Mexico's population cooks on open fires or dangerously rigged cookstoves. According to EcoZoom, the practices cause premature deaths and large amounts of harmful CO2 emissions.
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