Cooking
April 23, 2009 3 min. read

What could be a more quintessentially human activity?  Our food tastes better and is usually much safer to eat when it’s cooked.  (There is something to be said, don’t get me wrong, for the raw foods approach too.  I’ve been a vegetarian for … what year is this? … a long time and I do […]

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Kyoto Box
April 9, 2009 1 min. read

Here is a big boost for low-tech, low-cost, potentially very high-impact solutions to “dangerous anthropogenic interference” (DAI) with the climate system:  a solar-powered cooker that costs less than $5 to build.  I wrote about the FT’s Climate Change Challenge last month here.  The FT and its partners, Forum for the Future and HP, are providing […]

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