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 ...

This solar powered oven experiment demonstrates how sunlight can be transformed into usable cooking heat using a simple DIY setup. Built from basic materials, the design focuses sunlight to generate ...

MESA, Ariz. — A Mesa woman said you can cook a nice hot dinner for your family. Merry Bevill uses several solar stoves in her front yard to use the sun to cook pot roast, peach pie and more. It’s ...

Using a 3-kW solar-powered cooking system, an Odisha café prepares meals without LPG, reducing fuel costs and emissions ...

Engineers in Nigeria have developed an improved solar cooking system that is designed to replace cooking over fires made with coal, wood, or other materials, reports a new study in Frontiers in Energy ...

Scientists in Ghana have developed a device that combines a conventional solar PV-powered steam cooker with sand-based thermal energy storage. The system can achieve a thermal efficiency of 38.9% and ...

Solar cooking advocates are encouraging households and communities to explore solar thermal cooking as temperatures climb and ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Matt West has been cooking with the sun since the early days of the internet. He said he was inspired when he was a little boy and saw someone cook a hot dog with solar power for the ...

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 ...

Alan Bigelow: a solar cooking advocate and a solar cook himself. (Courtesy: James Dacey) “Concentrate all of your thoughts upon the work at hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The ten 2021 winners of the Keeling Curve Prize for climate change solutions are recognized for innovations in grid-scale energy storage, e-bikes, ...