TIME: Noon
LOCATION: Zoom

Please join us to hear from Tom Price, CEO of EcoSafi, an organization that is transforming cooking in the developing world by providing clean, affordable biomass stoves that protect health and the environment. Many families, even those living in urban settings with modern amenities, still resort to lighting charcoal fires multiple times a day for cooking. Recognizing the need for a better alternative. EcoSafi builds cook stoves and biomass fuel pellets that aim to reduce deforestation, improve in-home air quality and health outcomes, and reduce emissions. They work in Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, and Uganda. The challenge is that as of 2020, 43% of families in low and middle-income countries worldwide cook food at home using stoves fueled by wood or coal. Tom has founded and led multiple startups in solar, bio energy, and carbon. Previously he worked as a freelance journalist covering the environment and human rights, after almost a decade working for conservation groups in Washington, DC.