I’m trying to save money and thought about using the sun to help cook our food. Are solar ovens really effective and is it possible to build a simple one myself? – Jill N. Dear Jill: It is possible to ...

Editor’s Note: This story was identified by Call to Earth guest editor Rodrigo Pacheco. He is a chef who grows sustainable food at his restaurant and creative permaculture project in Ecuador, and he ...

Solar Cooker: Amidst the shortage of LPG, a solar cooker can serve as an excellent alternative. It operates on sunlight, and once purchased, entails absolutely no recurring costs for its usage. Solar ...

Solar Cookers International (SCI), a non-profit organisation has come up with a new skill to help in tapping the natural solar energy for domestic purposes like cooking and water purification.

UNHCR is testing a newly-designed solar cooker in two Kenyan refugee camps facing a shortage of firewood. The agency hopes that the stove project can lessen the impact of refugee influxes on the ...

Solar Cooker is a device which is used to heat the food by using the rays of Sun converting into heat energy. Solar cooker uses the solar energy directly for preparing food just like the plants that ...

“My phone has not stopped ringing since the LPG crisis began,” said Priyadarshan Sahasrabuddhe of Pune, founder of Vaayu Mitra, a decentralised, waste-to-energy biogas model. The set-up promotes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "This cooker is made of recycled materials. It is very simple, made of wood from a wooden box, broken glass from the glassmaker ...

Green chillies roasted with concentrated sunlight could pave the way for more environmentally friendly and economical food processing. New Mexico is famed for roasted green chillies with a distinctive ...

Even at the ripe of age of 79, I am living proof of the old adage, “You learn something new every day.” Recently, I was visiting someone who had a solar cooker on her deck. I don’t think I’d ever seen ...