Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kyoto Box is a cheap, solar-powered cardboard cooker for use in rural Africa, estimated to prevent two tonnes ...

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 ...

John Bohmer’s Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to ...

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, ...

We all hate packaging, but the Kyoto box is that rare thing — a cardboard carton that’s part of the solution. It’s also the winner of Forum for the Future’s Climate Challenge competition with HP and ...

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 ...

A 300-rupee cardboard box that uses solar power can cook casseroles, boil water and bake bread. It has the potential to help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases. Dubbed the ' Kyoto Box', it ...

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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 ...

In the March 2009 No: 3 issue of Gapevine the newsletter of the Guyana Association of Professional Engineers, there is an article on cardboard cooking. Here it is:- “A solar-powered cardboard cooker ...