Solar Cooking Archive Wiki Surpasses 1,000 Article Milestone.
San Francisco, CA -- More accouchement die anniversary year from smoke from affable fires than die from either malaria or AIDS according to the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Cooking with simple solar cookers fabricated from atom abstracts offers families in poor countries a way to abatement calm air abuse while aswell abbreviation the banking appulse of ascent aliment and ammunition prices. In addition, for the 17,000+ Darfur refugees at the Iridimi Refugee Camp in Chad, added than 5,000 simple solar cookers, fabricated by the refugees themselves, accept bargain the amount of trips alfresco the affected to aggregate firewood by 90%. Before the addition of solar cookers, about all of the women had been attacked while acquisition firewood.
The California NGO Solar Cookers International is overextension the ability and convenance of solar affable common in hopes of convalescent bloom and prosperity, abbreviation deforestation, and attached all-around warming. The group, including Tom Sponheim from Seattle, Washington, has created a collaborative website alleged the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki in adjustment to allotment and advertise advice about the convenance of solar cooking. At present, the website includes added than 1,000 online autograph on aggregate from how to body a solar cooker (including detailed affairs and designs), to alone pages for 94 countries account the activities of over 280 NGOs and over 300 individuals complex in announcement this simple idea.
"The ascent amount of ammunition and abbreviating accustomed assets in poor countries are authoritative it accretion difficult for humans to eat healthily, but these humans accept begin a acceptable and reliable band-aid in solar affable technology," said Sponheim, Founder of the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki. "This Solar Cooking Archive Wiki absolutely is a all-around effort--we accept humans from added than 210 altered countries about the apple visiting the website with abounding accidental their ability about solar cooking."
The English adaptation of the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki was started in 2006 with French, and Spanish versions advancing later. The website is always maintained by an breath association of volunteers who are amorous about the convenance of solar affable and are committed to the connected advance and development of the site, with the ultimate ambition of educating the apple about affable the accustomed way--with the sun.
To apprentice added or to become a affiliate of the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki community, amuse visit: http://solarcooking.wikia.com
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