[permaculture] alternative fuels for cooking
Toby Hemenway
toby at patternliteracy.com
Fri Oct 12 14:26:00 EDT 2007
Friends who worked for the Peace Corps in Africa (I forget just where)
brought simple mylar and cardboard solar cookers to several villages and
taught people how to use them. They came back a year later and couldn't
find any of the cookers, and everyone still cooked with wood. Finally
one of the locals, who'd been reluctant to hurt their feelings, pointed
out the shiny jewelry and the bits of mirror embroidered into much of
the clothing. They'd found a more culturally appropriate use for the
reflectors.
Toby
http://patternliteracy.com
Scott Pittman wrote:
> While solar ovens are a good and proven technology I have yet to convince
> any culture (including our own) to use them instead of wood or manure.
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