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#293: Dutch Social Entrepreneur Works To Save Lives In Africa With High Tech Stove

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September 3, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1UnmauC. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. “ It is a little known fact that cooking is the fourth biggest killer in the world ,” explains Judith Joan Walker, Director and COO of African Clean Energy. [Jump to the second page to see the live interview.] “It’s this huge invisible elephant in the room because, in the western world, we are so used to being able to waltz into the kitchen and whip up a healthy meal. In fact, cooking indoors kills more people than Aids, Malaria and TB combined; over 4.3 million people,” she continues. Last month, I had the opportunity to meet Walker, along with a dozen other social entrepreneurs, at Santa Clara University, as I reported here. Walker seems to take this personally, “This fact is sickening enough without considering that the majority of these people are women an