Solar Cooking News
Gendered Sights and Health Issues in the Paradigm of Biofuel in Sri Lanka
by Anoja Wickramasinghe, ENERGIA News vol. 4 nr 4, pp.12-14, December 2001 In Sri Lanka, biofuels are the primary source of energy and account for nearly 66% of the annual energy consumed. Annually nearly 10 million tons of… Read More
Summary of wood consumption study in Kakuma
by B. Knudson and W. Lankford, August 1998 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A solar cooking promotion project has been underway in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya since January1995. The camp houses refugees principally from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi,… Read More
How To Really Help Women of Afghanistan
by Dr. Barbara Knudson, November 2001 In a recent article in The Economist, the tragic environmental circumstance of the Afghan people is described in stark statistical terms. Forest cover of its land mass has virtually disappeared in the… Read More
Solar cooking provides antidote to wood fuel ‘famine’
by Dr. Barbara Knudson Prior to the 20th century, virtually all families around the world cooked their food with fuel wood. In the 21st century, between one-third and one-half of the world’s population continues to do so.Trees are,… Read More
Deforestation, wood cooking practices tightly linked, analysis of data suggests
by Dr. Barbara Knudson Fact: There is ever-increasing deforestation. Fact: About two billion of the earth’s 6 billion inhabitants cook with fuel wood. Can there be cause and effect here? Many assert there is not. They cite lumbering… Read More
