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Wonderbag was a company established in 2008 methods as a solution to South Africa's energy crisis providing families with a means to continue cooking daily meals during power outages. Resembling a colourful bag reminiscent of a pumpkin, Wonderbag employs ancient heat retention cooking technology, providing employment and income opportunities to entrepreneurs across the developing world. In South Africa, manufacturing is outsourced to 2000 entrepreneurs, primarily women, providing them with vital income. Founder of Wonderbag, Sarah Collins told Biznews in an interview about the business model she pioneered, her high-profile carbon clients including Sasol, Anglo American and Nandos. She also highlighted South Africa's role in crafting legislation to bolster carbon credit projects.
Clarence Ford speaks to Sarah Collins Wonderbag Founder, no stranger to war, having worked alongside various partners in Ukraine, South Sudan, Syria and Somalia to name a few, shared a poignant update on Instagram: "As the situation in Gaza deteriorates, the desperation of people in these inhumane circumstances is beyond words. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 1: Welcome to the Blue Space, brought to you by Standard Bank CIB. In our first episode we explore the role investment plays in Africa's energy transition – from funding large infrastructure to providing access to finance for innovative small businesses. Join Joanne Joseph as she facilitates the conversation with Dele Kuti, Standard Bank's Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure; NJ Ayuk, Executive Chair of the African Energy Chamber; and Sarah Collins, founder of Wonderbag. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/standardbankcib/message
Rui Morais, Dis-Chem's incoming CEO, talks about their annual financial results. For The Money Show Explainer, Prof Adrian Saville Investment Specialist at Genera Capital on how the rating agencies changed their tune on SA since Ramaphosa has been at the helm. For Friday File, Sarah Collins, founder and CEO of Wonderbag spoke about their non-electric slow cooker.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nico Gundlach – Experte für FUTURE BRANDING & Pitch-Consulting Ein Geheimnis von erfolgreichen Pitches besteht darin, die Kernbotschaften in einfache & plakative Wertversprechen für die Zielgruppe zu übersetzen. Dabei ist es wichtig zu wissen, welche unterschiedlichen Menschentypen nahezu in jedem B2B-Pitch im Raum anwesend sind. Hier handelt es sich um die vier W-Typen: The Warrior, The Whisperer, The Wise und The Wonderbag. Und jeder dieser Menschentypen achtet beim Pitch auf unterschiedliche Aspekte bzw. gewichtet die Botschaften individuell. In dieser Folge erfahrt ihr, wie die einzelnen Typen ticken, wie ihr sie erkennt und was ihr tun müsst, um sie für euch zu begeistern. https://www.instagram.com/nico_gundlach_official/ https://www.facebook.com/nicogundlachofficial/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-gundlach-96159113/ https://www.nicogundlach.de/ https://www.bestes-pferd.de/
Beverly and Gaynor live on a Sailboat! Their channels depicts what it's like to live and cook at sea, all while eating gluten free! I found our conversation fascinating. Especially when it comes to some of the energy saving gadgets they use on their boat. The wonderbag and the thermal slow cooker are great examples of merging ancient cooking techniques and modern technology. I also loved the hand crank food processor. Cooks Tour Afloat is their gluten free cooking channel. I really enjoyed this UK classic cottage pie recipe and how they turned the leftovers into to two separate dishes. Nothing goes to waste! (Even though my internal Italian Nonna had to look away lol) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCthRLhFfXlQf2adN5UJ9upw If you're interested in what the day to day is like living on a sailboat then check out Sailing Yacht Salty Lass! https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingYachtSaltyLass/featured Wonderbag slow cooker https://www.wonderbagworld.com/ Thermal slow cooker https://amzn.to/2Gb99V2 hand crank food processor https://amzn.to/3hWymQB --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/grace-fornasa/support
In this episode of SIYB, we have Lorcan Berg back on the show to talk about CANCEL CULTURE :0 Cancel culture is dope, it’s ugly, it gets messy but it’s necessary. We bounced around some ideas about what can be done to improve cancel culture and the importance of accountability in society today. With false prophets and hollow people standing on pedestals, how do we find role models as a society? We also talked a lottttaaaa smack, discussing new music, Liverpool’s big W in the EPL, Epstein drama and a lot more. Also, Rest In Peace Pop Smoke. Left us with some heat. Hope you enjoyed this episode! Please show some love to the charities in the description. They need your support. Educate yourself about BLM, GBV and the state of Yemen. Donate :) Thanks for listening! Check Out @Wonderbagct on Instagram to learn more about Wonderbag and Hot boxes!XXX Show some support to Feed Our Valley @ https://www.feedourvalley.org by donating, spreading the word or getting involved. XXX Lorcan’s Details: IG: @ihatelorcan XXX Hussam’s Details: IG: @shamsiinyourbrainTwitter: @hussam_shamsi XXX Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com Use this link to read up, stay updated, listen to podcasts, etc. You can also donate to the campaigns via this link :) Change the mindsets of those around you. Be it the old or young. Don’t forget that the old raise the young so let’s not give up on the previous generation. It’s our turn to be the next CEOs, presidents, politicians, teachers and leaders of the world. Let’s make sure we make an effort to sculpt a better future for ourselves and for those to come after us. XXX Yemen Crisis: https://www.islamic-relief.org.za/yemen-emergency-appeal/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImrn5p-uY6gIVCLrtCh0Y5QIZEAAYASAAEgJag_D_BwEYou can donate to the Crisis in Yemen via Islamic Relief. They are facilitating food and water relief measures. This is our world. Please try and help causes, movements and communities in need whenever you can. Foregoing a future Saturday lunch to pay for a child’s monthly ration goes a long way. Sacrificing that new bag to provide food for a family for a week goes a long way. XXX Gender Based Violence in South Africa: Check out Speak Peace: www.speakpeace.org https://genderjustice.org.za XXX Please rate the podcast and let us know who you’d like to hear next on the show! Buh-byeeee.
Smoke inhalation from cooking causes millions of deaths. Stirring cooking pots for hours and hours, and collecting firewood to cook with steals lives - preventing many people from going to school or achieving their potential.But a simple invention, created in South Africa, is already changing this. The Wonderbag is an insulated drawstring container weighing about the same as a bag of sugar. Bring a pot of stew to the boil, pop it inside the Wonderbag and it finishes cooking all on its own. This drastically reduces the amount of wood (or kerosene!) needed to cook. Women have launched businesses, creating income in their communities, in the hours they have freed from stirring open pots. Girls can get an education instead of collecting wood.Wonderbags are made from foam out of aeroplane seats which would otherwise have been burned. They've even been used to cook food while climbing Kilimanjaro, as my guest Ken Dunn explains in this episode.Ken, a former geography teacher, visited Lesotho twenty years ago. He took a bunch of children from near Barnsley which ultimately catalysed a community development project and the launch of a charity, Africa's Gift. This isn't about patronage, "saviour" tropes, or telling people what's good for them, as Ken explains in this episode. It's about listening and working together to create positive solutions to problems that do – or will – affect everyone. Other projects are addressing soil erosion and generating community wealth.Businesses, social enterprises and people working together are making huge contributions to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, says Ken - arguably much more than Governments. This is a fascinating interview which covers Ken's own journey from teacher to founder, community partner, social entrepreneur and wonderbag advocate
Inventor, CEO and equality innovator Sarah Collins is best known as the creator of the Wonderbag, a globally conscious 1-for-1 social enterprise. Over the past 11 years over 1.5million Wonderbags have been activated in the Developed and Developing (majority) world. Sarah’s extreme dedication, resilience and determination has earned her Fortune Magazine’s Top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Oprah’s African Heroines, Fair Lady’s prestigious Woman of the Future Award and in 2019 she graced the front cover of Forbes Africa Women Magazine as one of Africa’s top six wealth creators on the continent. Her most recent achievement was being awarded the 21st Century Icon Award for the Ardent Techie category in London.
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today's show: • You know spring is here when our first guest is in the studio! Greg Nivens of Trigger, organizer of the National Harbor Wine and Food Festival, happening May 4 and 5; • Sarah Collins calls in from the United Kingdom. She's the founder and creator of Wonderbag and the Wonderbag Foundation. The Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary heat retention slow-cooker, which continues to cook food that has been brought to the boil by fire, cook stoves or any conventional method for up to 12 hours without the use of any additional fuel source. The South African invention is saving lives from smoke inhalation, combating deforestation, providing time for women to work and for children to go to school, and decreasing the incidence of rape; • John Coleman is in. He's the wine and cheese buyer for Balducci's and travels the world searching for the most interesting and delicious products out there. He prides himself on finding new producers and bringing them to market first. He's in with great new options for spring/summer wining and dining. And he's brought … mimosas! • Tory Pratt is the founder of the Pratt Standard Cocktail Company. Four years ago she tried to make a gin and tonic with Green Hat, and noticed the tonic was loaded with preservatives and high fructose corn syrup. She went on a quest to find the original tonic syrup recipe and launched the Pratt Standard Cocktail Company (previously known as True Syrups and Garnishes) in 2014; • Chad Spangler, bartender and owner of Service Bar DC, was recently crowned top mixologist for the Northeast region by the National Restaurant Association at their Star of the Bar Mixology Competition. Now he's heading to Chicago in a couple of weeks to compete for the national title. He's here to mix up his smash hit, award-winning cocktail, just for our taste buds!
Hosted by David and Nycci Nellis. On today’s show: • You know spring is here when our first guest is in the studio! Greg Nivens of Trigger, organizer of the National Harbor Wine and Food Festival, happening May 4 and 5; • Sarah Collins calls in from the United Kingdom. She’s the founder and creator of Wonderbag and the Wonderbag Foundation. The Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary heat retention slow-cooker, which continues to cook food that has been brought to the boil by fire, cook stoves or any conventional method for up to 12 hours without the use of any additional fuel source. The South African invention is saving lives from smoke inhalation, combating deforestation, providing time for women to work and for children to go to school, and decreasing the incidence of rape; • John Coleman is in. He’s the wine and cheese buyer for Balducci’s and travels the world searching for the most interesting and delicious products out there. He prides himself on finding new producers and bringing them to market first. He’s in with great new options for spring/summer wining and dining. And he’s brought … mimosas! • Tory Pratt is the founder of the Pratt Standard Cocktail Company. Four years ago she tried to make a gin and tonic with Green Hat, and noticed the tonic was loaded with preservatives and high fructose corn syrup. She went on a quest to find the original tonic syrup recipe and launched the Pratt Standard Cocktail Company (previously known as True Syrups and Garnishes) in 2014; • Chad Spangler, bartender and owner of Service Bar DC, was recently crowned top mixologist for the Northeast region by the National Restaurant Association at their Star of the Bar Mixology Competition. Now he's heading to Chicago in a couple of weeks to compete for the national title. He’s here to mix up his smash hit, award-winning cocktail, just for our taste buds!
Never miss another interview! Join Devin here: http://bit.ly/joindevin. Chiara Savage Schwatz, a teenage changemaker, is working to raise money to help families in South Africa obtain Wonderbag slow cookers. These ingenious products require no energy! Families use them by bringing a pot of food up to a high temperature over a fire or stove and then by inserting the pot into the superinsulated bag to finish cooking, reducing the total energy required to cook the food. This single tool helps reduce fuel consumption and indoor smoke. By reducing fuel, usually charcoal or wood, she is helping to reduce deforestation and to slow climate change. By reducing indoor smoke, she is improving the health of everyone inside the home, especially the women in children who tend to spend the most time there. By using donations to make the devices free or affordable to low-income families, she is helping to address global poverty. When low-income families can spend less on fuel, more money is available for clean water, food and education. So, the Wonderbag is one intervention that addresses three key problems: poverty, global health and climate change. Chiara is one powerful teenager! Be a hero! Join the elite group of supporters who ensure that stories like this can continue to be shared! Visit heroes4good.org to become a hero now.
Women in science, engineering and technology careers still represent less than a third of that workforce. Nearly 53% in the industry leave the field. Engineer Pratima Rao Gluckman interviewed 19 female tech executives for her book, "Nevertheless, She Persisted." Sarah Collins conceived her idea for the Wonderbag during an electrical blackout in her town in South Africa. The portable non-electric heat retentive slow-cooker has helped save lives from smoke inhalation and put women to work.This show is broadcast live on Wednesday's at 12PM ET on W4WN Radio – The Women 4 Women Network (www.w4wn.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).
Oh folks. Get ready for a low-energy show. After drinking too much last night, I talk about being an alcoholic by the Army's standards, buying a car, being too old to drink Yeager Bombs, 20 year olds drinking gimlets, and how bad Altered Carbon is. Then I read a letter from Toast and talk about the Wonderbag, before talking about the piece of crap car I just bought. budiak@dynamitegun.com
At this year’s Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food I talked to Jon Verriet, who’s been researching the history of the haybox. That’s an insulated container, into which you put hot food, which then keeps cooking thanks to the retained heat. Jon made the point that hayboxes often see an upsurge during times of war and hardship, when they can be promoted as good for the country because they save energy and money. Environmentally-aware types also like them, to save energy as they cook their lentils. Researching the haybox myself, I came across its modern incarnation, the Wonderbag, which neatly ties those two motivations together. When you buy one, perhaps for environmental reasons, you’re actually paying for two, one of which goes to a poor family to save money, fuel, time, water, everything. I thought that was worth a follow-up, and so sought out Sarah Collins, a South African social entrepreneur who developed the Wonderbag. Notes The Wonderbag website tells the story and links through to the Wonderbag Foundation. The University of California at Berkeley study mentioned in the podcast concluded that the Wonderbag saves 8–21% of the time family members spend cooking, 10–36% of fuel costs, and allows families to spend 36–60% more on food. Banner photograph thanks to Annie Templeton at Goedgedacht Trust. Cover photo by Edrea du Toit for Netwerk 24. The haybox through history episode, for convenience. Huffduff it
Huffduff it This year’s Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food was dedicated to The material culture of cooking tools and techniques and was full of fascinating stuff. I especially enjoyed a talk on the hay box, the original slow cooker. The principle is simplicity itself. Bring a pot full of food to the boil and then insulate it really well so that it cools down very slowly. The food continues to cook as it cools down and if your insulation is good enough you can come back hours later to find a hot, properly cooked meal. The haybox actually has quite a long history, with three Gold Medals awarded to a Mr Johan Sörensen at the Paris Exhibition in 1867. Various patents were granted to Sörensen and others, and the idea was promoted for "fishermen, pilots, and others whose small vessels are not generally so constructed as to enable them to procure hot food while at sea" and, eventually, domestic cooks. In his talk, Jon Verriet traced the ups and downs of the haybox from around 1895 to the present day. It was most popular in times of war, but always with a moral element to it, even if the moral lesson shifted slightly. Notes There’s a terrific account of The Self-acting Norwegian Cooking Apparatus in the New York Medical Journal, vol 10 (1870). Do not be distracted by either the preceding item (The Effects of Hashish) or the one after (When to Trephine). Thanks to Hedon for the link. The most recent incarnation of the haybox is the Wonderbag, created by a development worker after a restless night and now offering to save the planet and pull people out of poverty. Aside from that, most of the online writing about the haybox is survivalist stuff. I’m not linking to that. The banner image is from Ford Madox Brown’s The Hayfield. I’d like to think that his supper is under one of the little haystacks. The cover illustration is from The Fireless Cook Book, by Margaret J. Mitchell.