David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Every Boy Scout or Girl Guide probably had the experience of building a simple solar oven: an insulated box, some aluminum foil, and plastic wrap, and voila! On warm, sunny, summer days, you can bake.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - In the hot, Texas summer months, the PinPoint Poindexters are making good use of the heat! This week, we decided to bake s’mores using a homemade solar oven. This experiment is ...

On Wednesday afternoon, almost 600 freshmen students in the engineering program gathered on the UA Mall to test out their class projects – solar ovens made from scratch. The students are all apart of ...

Have you ever wondered if you could cook using just the power of the sun? With a simple solar oven, you can! This hands-on science project demonstrates how solar energy can be converted into heat to ...

Last summer when our power was out for a week, I really thought about how much we depend on electricity. While my family was lucky enough to have a generator and gas grill, the generator wasn't ...

TUCSON – University of Arizona engineering students tested out their homemade solar ovens on the campus mall, on Wednesday. The freshman students teamed up for the project and constructed the ovens ...

It's noon on a sunny Monday. We meet Carolyn Olang at her rural home in Rairi Village, Migori County. She is preparing lunch after a long day of work weeding her farm. I am expecting to see smoke and ...