[Stoves] GACC Webinar (that was) coming up in less than 10 hours

[Ronal W. Larson]

Paul and list:

	I agree on all you have added.  

	My purpose in flagging yesterday’s GACC event was to try to get us more attuned to what GACC is and has been doing. There aren’t many groups that can pull that off for the stove community (certainly not this list). The biochar community is served by IBI - with their own regular set of webinars - but the biochar community has been somewhat divorced from char-making stoves.

	By our getting more involved with GACC, we can get more attention paid to climate issues I think - with carbon negativity through stoves only available with TLUDs.  I can’t see that this aspect of TLUDs is getting much attention.

	GACC has two more upcoming webinars in roughly two weeks - on LPG and solar cooking (18th and 21st).  Which is good.

	Something more soon on the Gold Standard.

Ron


> On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:23 PM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Ron,
> 
> I attended the webinar.   It was not about stove technology, but about how to make a stove company grow.  
> 
> The webinar was interesting and worthwhile.  But some aspects of EcoZoom's history were not mentioned.  And never mentioned is that the stoves are made in China by Mr Shen's (Chen's ?) company in conjunction with Aprovecho.  So the EcoZoom story of the recent years (the topic of the webinar) was about  marketing and  sales challenges and successes.
> 
> Paul
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> On 9/6/2017 3:18 PM, Ronal W. Larson wrote:
>> List:
>> 
>> 	This is a brief summary of today’s GACC webinar.
>> 
>> 	It was almost entirely based on a report from May this year, totally unrelated to stoves - that can be found at:  https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20(5.11.17).pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu <https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20%285.11.17%29.pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu> .  The producing group and the author’s names are there - again, not stove related.
>> 
>> 	Two Principals at a young growing stove company (EcoZoom - headquartered in Kenya):  Amanda West (one of 3 founders, now at Mercy Corps  and Oli Raison (the present CEO) alternated back and forth on different aspects of this report.  They especially concentrated on five roadblocks summarized in this figure I took from the report.  Amanda (leading off) and Oli spent more than 5 minutes on each of the 5 topics - mainly concentrating on the EcoZoom experience.
>> 
>> <Screen Shot 2017-09-06 at 1.31.09 PM.png>
>> 
>> 	I thought the two webinar stove participants were exceptionally good.  EcoZoom (about $2.5 M/yr) has a portion of their business on solar lamps, which was especially interesting to me as I was a Board member of such a company (In Namibia) that clearly had many of the growing pain issues I heard this AM.
>> 
>> 	If you couldn’t hear today’s message (sponsored by GACC, but minimal participation by GACC staff this time) I recommend the webinar much more than the above-cited report.  The GACC site for the webinar, when it is ready, is likely to be http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html <http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html>
>> 
>> 	You might also get something from these sites:
>> https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact <https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact>  (where Amanda’s name also appears) ,  
>> https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf <https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf> ,
>> http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/ <http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/>
>> and  https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us <https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us> .
>> 
>> Ron
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Ronal W. Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net <mailto:rongretlarson at comcast.net>> wrote:
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>>> List.
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>>> 	I think not to late to sign up at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169 <https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169>.
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>>> Ron
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