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    'Impact Entrepreneurship' Places Importance on Social Consciousness

    As a social-impact entrepreneur, you need more than a passion for doing good. Here's how some 'treps are putting their chops to work to run successful enterprises and make the world a better place.
    by Michelle Goodman Feb 01, 2013 5 minutes

    On a trip to Africa in 1990, Peter Scott was moved to tears by the deforestation he encountered. Determined to do something, he spent 15 years as a consultant for governments and NGOs in the developing world, designing fuel-efficient cooking technologies that didn't rely on wood. Through his work he taught people in 20 countries to build and sell more than 400,000 clean stoves, bread ovens and food dryers.

    Rising to the top: Peter Scott conducts a water-boiling test on Burn Design Lab's newest charcoal stove.
    Rising to the top: Peter Scott conducts a water-boiling test on Burn Design Lab's newest charcoal stove.

    Still, Scott knew he could do more. In 2010 he formed Vashon Island, Wash.-based , a nonprofit organization that creates sustainable stoves for developing countries to build and distribute. The following year he founded Burn Manufacturing, the for-profit arm that licenses the Lab's designs to build and sell stoves in Africa. Scott scored a $1 million loan from a Fortune 10 corporation for Burn Manufacturing; now he's working on

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