BioLite

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY

Energy sits at the center of our lives, keeping us safe, productive, and comfortable. Energy improves health, combats climate change, enables communication and education, generates income, and empowers women. Creating access for a growing world population has become one of the biggest opportunities of our time.

BioLite is on a mission to bring Energy Everywhere™ with revolutionary products that transform the way we Cook, Charge and Light our lives off the grid. We are a team of engineers and designers, operators and analysts, story tellers and evangelists, who believe that advanced technologies, built on sustainable business practices, have the power to change the world. Our unique Parallel Innovation business model pairs the needs of families living in energy poverty with the passions of outdoor enthusiasts pushing the boundaries of life outdoors and on the go.

Our founders, Jonathan and Alec, met at Smart Design in New York City where they quickly bonded over their interest in sustainable design. Alec, frustrated that almost all efficient camping stoves required fossil fuels, had the idea of a wood-burning stove able to utilize its own thermal energy to improve combustion. Jonathan, an avid camper, quickly brought his engineering background to the table and the two began the design process. Countless nights, weekends, and prototypes later, the BioLite CampStove was born: a portable biomass stove that leveraged thermoelectrics to create a smokeless fire all while charging personal devices.

PRODUCTS

Mobile Energy, Clean Cooking, Efficient Charging.

MANUFACTURING

Through an ethically sourced supply chain, BioLite leverages centralized manufacturing to produce high-quality products at an affordable price.

We at BioLite seek to minimize our resource consumption and create products that have a net benefit to humanity and to the planet. Monitoring our carbon footprint is the first step in understanding whether we are achieving this goal. To that end, we have been measuring our carbon footprint since 2012 and offset our entire footprint each year. This process has been particularly important recently since BioLite has been experiencing significant growth, which we aim to achieve in both a financially and environmentally sustainable way.

EMISSIONS

Our process production generate very small amounts of CO2 as we just use a washing machine, scissors and sewing machines. About logistics, we don't measure our CO2 impact, however but we always try as much as possible to reduce distances between our production and our final clients.

We always send our products in bulk from our workshop in Portugal to our wharehouse in France and only by truck, of course we never use plane for the transportation of our bags. Products that are made in France are made less than 30 km away from the wharehouse.

Concerning our trajects as founders, we try to reduce them as much as we can and use the train. As also based in Lisbon, we deal with all the portuguese production. Our associates in the North of France are dealing with the french productions. It allows to stay close to the workshops while reducing distances.