Kyoto Box Solar Cooker

Using energy from the sun, the KYOTO BOX is a $5 solution to the mounting problems faced by 3 billion people who rely solely on wood for cooking fuel.

With the KYOTO BOX we can:

1. Help stop deforestation

2. Help remove indoor smoke pollution. 1.6 million deaths every year

3. Cleans water. Water-borne diseases kill 10 million people every year

4. Lowers cost of energy since the sun provides free fuel

5. Reduce spinal cord injuries from carrying firewood

6. Reduce rape and landmine injuries from young girls fetching firewood

7. Reduce time waste from fetching firewood and allows kids to attend school

8. Cook food slowly, retaining important vitamins

9. Reduce fire hazard

10. Reduce CO2 emissions

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• kyoto
• box
• solar
• africa
• energy
• cheap
• carbon
• credits
• sun
• deforestation
• conservation
• kenya
• climate
• change
• solution
• poverty
• third
• world
• prevention
• financial
• times
• free
• renewable
• technology

[neilious01]

how patronizing!! Its not as if African's are responsible for the majority of Co2 emissions, or for creating the demand for timber which causes deforestation. why don't we in the Western World use technology like this?? or better yet why don't we stop consuming so much??

[Deathend]

So.. when will this be illegal?

[Cyback2000]

My mom used to use a solar oven to cook food (usually a soup) on hot summer days to help the house stay cool. It works well, and I think that glass works fine if you can find a junk yard piece big enough and get it cut. Plexi-glass is just what keeps the cost down.

[SincereConcern]

Aw, look! The bigot is upset because I guessed where he got his information. He couldnt offer an argument against my statements so he calls ME stupidhow puerile.

[kangurski]

and you are more stupid than the average yank is allowed to be

[SincereConcern]

I STUDY Africa

Your continued emphasis on Zimbabwe & the specific phrases you use, mean youve read how to kill a country in The Atlantic, but remain uninformed about the rest of the continent. Zimbab is the way it is b/c of Mugabe, not blacks'

I also think you are one of those racist fucktards who isnt quite a neoNazi, but who is more than pleased to be one of those abusive police officers. Maybe u should insert an L into ur s/n, KLANgurski! Who says Im a he? What if Im a snarky female?

[kangurski]

Obviously you've paid attention during black appreciation week and forgot to look around to check the real world. Hey, why don't you blame "white colonial powers" for turning the bread basket of Africa, Rhodesia, into a starving basket case of Zimbabwe. I'd rather be ignorant, than ... what's the word to describe someone who mistakes facts for his well wishes?

[SincereConcern]

You comment drips with the same superiority complex of the colonial powers, referring to other cultures as 'primitive' & lesser simply b/c they aren't recognizable to you. Your comment betrays your ignorance of the world. Go read some postcolonial theory.

Not all Africans were hunter-gatherers, many were agriculturalists or pastoralists and some were SCHOLARS in Timbuktu. Furthermore, there were African kingdoms, such as the Empires of Ashanti, Mali, Aksumite, Wolof, and many others.

[kangurski]

what traditional african social organisation??? hunters and gatherers.. yeah, that used to work well.... obviously you and other morons can not comprehend, that it is impossible to live at the 21th century standards with neanderthal mentality, you can have one but you can't have both.

[SincereConcern]

rv36116,

in the video's defense, the inventor is from Kenya and they probably speak many other languages besides English.

[SincereConcern]

Deforestation IS a problem and at least someone is attempting to address it, rather than badmouthing and GENERALIZING about Africa.

In the study of African governance, one must realize that the imposed nation-state of colonial powers did not match traditional African social organization. Since independence, countries have grappled w/ elites ruling the central gov't, oppressing others, who are w/o recourse, resulting in conflict.

It's top-down power structures that are bad, not people.