Jonathan Cedar

Jonathan Cedar is a product designer who, with his colleague Alexander Drummond, invented the BioLite stove — a camp stove that generates electricity and doesn’t rely on petroleum or batteries for fuel. Cedar was propelled by a desire to create a more sustainable product, but soon after developing a stove for campers and recreationists, he saw potential in the technology on a global scale as an alternative to cooking fires. The revenue from BioLite’s CampStove has helped support long-term development of the HomeStove, a biomass stove that reduces toxic wood smoke, eliminates most black carbon and was designed for dwellings in poverty stricken parts of the world.