How Can Solar Ovens Make the World a Better Place?
Beyond the obvious savings in electricity and reduction of GHG emissions, solar ovens are also helping worldwide to slow deforestation, desertification, soil erosion and flooding caused by the burning of firewood for cooking. Along the same lines, access to solar cooking helps women and children living in refugee camps by decreasing the need to search for firewood outside of the camps where they are often targets of violence. Solar ovens eliminate the need for firewood collection for cooking. Here’s a short video demonstrating the cooking and insulation process used by a Darfur refugee woman in Chad.
