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SUN OVENS INTERNATIONAL is
committed to providing an alternative to cooking with wood, dung and
charcoal in deforested developing countries that have been blessed with an
abundance of sunshine.
 Start Reducing Your Carbon Footprint the Fun Nutritious
Delicious Way!
What can I do?
Where do we
start?
Why not start in
your own back yard?
Many Australians are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take
responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions we create. Carbon dioxide
released from burning fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas can be harmful
to the environment. Using a SUN OVEN can
be an important step on the path towards your family becoming "carbon
neutral".
The New Oxford American Dictionary states: " Being carbon neutral
involves calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions,
reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions,
often by purchasing a carbon offset, paying to plant new trees or
investing in "green" technologies such as solar and wind power."
Reducing your carbon footprint can be fun when you turn your own back
yard into a gourmet kitchen with a SUN OVEN. You
will be amazed at how the sun can transform ordinary foods into
mouth-watering delights while curtailing your consumption fossil fuels.
Using a SUN OVEN sends an important message to your
friends and neighbors that you care about the environment.
The energy you waste when cooking indoors is more than what's burned on
your stovetop or in your oven. In the summer, additional energy is often
required to cool down the rest of the house, which can get heated up by
cooking in the kitchen. When you use a SUN OVEN to
bake, boil, or steam your food, the heat stays outdoors, saving energy
costs while reducing your carbon footprint. Join the thousands of others
who have chosen to improve their quality of life and the quality of the
earth at large by cooking with the sun.
SUN OVENS can have an
enormous impact on the everyday life of millions of people by:
1.
Reducing the demand on forests.
2. Reducing health hazards.
3.
Improving women's conditions
1. Forests are
dwindling at a more rapid rate than ever before. One third of humanity,
over 2.4 billion people, depends on wood and charcoal to prepare food and
the worldwide supply of wood is rapidly decreasing. The demands of massive
population growth and the inefficient conversion of wood to charcoal have
outstripped much of the world's forest's ability to regenerate, creating a
phenomenon known as deforestation.
 
Deforestation is the gravest
environmental crisis facing the world today. Its far-reaching effects
include:
- The decreasing availability of firewood.
- Removing the trees from an area is to
remove its source of life. (Deforestation has left more than 25% of the
continent of Africa almost useless for cultivation.)
- Forests protect the soil against erosion
and reduce the risks of landslides and avalanches.
- Forests increase the rate that rainwater
recharges groundwater as well as control the rate that water is released
in watersheds, helping sustain freshwater supplies.
- Forests affect the climate. The
occurrence and strength of floods and droughts increase when they are
eliminated.
- Forests are an important source of
oxygen.
- Forests store large amounts of carbon
that are released when trees are cut or burned.
The use of SUN OVENS can eliminate
the use of up to 70% of the wood which is currently being consumed for
household cooking.
2. The acrid smoke
from cooking fires subjects women and their children to levels of smoke
that at times are often 100 times above the international safety
standards. This results in 3 deaths a minute, totaling over 1.6 million
deaths each year.
 
Bio-mass smoke has many harmful
effects which can cause or contribute to:
- Acute respiratory infections (Respiratory
infections are one of the world's leading child killers. A child is two
to three times more likely to contract acute lower respiratory
infections when exposed to smoke than an adult.)
- Pneumonia
- Tuberculosis
- Lung Cancer
- Asthma
- Lower birth weights
- Cataract
- Nervous and muscular
fatigue
The use of SUN OVENS reduces the
amount of acrid smoke from cooking fires by up to 70%.
3. In many deforested
communities, the gathering of wood is no longer a simple matter. As the
supply of wood decreases, women must travel great distances to find wood.
Many women in developing countries must spend several hours each day
collecting fuel-wood. As women and girls travel increasing distances
gathering firewood, they are forced to expose themselves to greater risk
of beatings and rape.
Once wood is gathered, women spend many
hours stirring food. Food cooked in a SUN OVEN does not
require stirring, freeing up time for income generation and other more
productive activities.
The use of SUN OVENS can
dramatically improve the quality of life for women and
girls.
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