Think humankind discovering fire was revolutionary? How about a cardboard box that uses the sun’s rays to cook without burning firewood? That’s precisely what the Kyoto Box, a cardboard solar cooker, ...

Harness the power of the sun with this simple homemade solar cooker! Harness the power of the sun with this simple homemade solar cooker! With just a few household items, see how solar energy creates ...

It looks so simple, and that's the key innovation. The Kyoto Box consists of two cardboard boxes, one inside the other. The inner box is painted black to absorb sunlight, and the heat is trapped with ...

Solar box cookers have been popular with campers and back-to-the-landers for decades. The Kyoto Box solar cooker, an updated design, has just won first place in the Financial Times Climate Change ...

From cool, dewy European mountain ranges and humid Central Asian forests to the urban sprawl across North America and the arid landscapes of the African continent, millions of people are cooking with ...

Graphic shows the parts of a box solar cooker with the glass lid open and metal reflectors with two pots inside on a white background. 3D Illustration The following is an excerpt from DIY Solar ...

Eleven years ago, Crosby Menzies walked away from his marketing job for The Wall Street Journal’s London office. “Financially, I was doing fine but my heart just wasn’t in my work,” he recalled.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A solar-powered cardboard cooker will on Thursday be announced the winner of a $75,000 competition to tackle ...

From cool, dewy European mountain ranges and humid Central Asian forests to the urban sprawl across North America and the arid landscapes of the African continent, millions of people are cooking with ...

Sunny weather makes ovens out of more than just cars. The same physics that make a hot car interior a hazard to children or pets left inside can be used to heat food in solar cookers. In Sacramento ...