Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker

Jon Bøhmer, the entrepreneur behind the Kyoto box get media attention via e.g. BBC and Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

"A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas.

The Kyoto Box is made from cardboard and can be used for sterilising water or boiling or baking food.

The Kenyan-based inventor hopes it can make solar cooking widespread in the developing world, supplanting the use of wood which is driving deforestation."

Source: http://twurl.nl/l153sa

Heia Jon! Who is from Hedmark, Norway.

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