I currently don’t live in a rural area and for various reasons, I won’t be moving to a rural area anytime soon. So the question is, how to manage off-grid in an urban setting. You can, in fact live off-grid and urban at the same time. Here’s one awesome example:

If you haven’t considered off-grid living, you should know that there are plenty of benefits, such as…

It’s green. Of course being a tree hugger makes off-gird living seem fairly seductive. Off-grid life employs many of the green tactics most green heads like anyway; recycling, composting, conserving natural resources, organic gardening, living smaller and on less, re-purposing, and so on. Green living is like the gateway drug to off-grid

Fewer bills in my email inbox! If you could score zero (or much lower) electricity, water, or gas bills why not?

Self-sufficiency in hard times. If power costs more, if there’s a storm and power goes out, if tomato or egg prices rise, if we run smack out of resources, it matters less if you’re off-grid. Off-grid folks are in a better place to handle the impact of hard eco and economic times.

If you’re into simple living and less materialism, off-grid living is a way of life that allows you to hold these goals or ideals close.

If you do want to live in a rural area, one that’s naturally off the grid, this is a way to do it.

Obviously there are off-grid cons too.

• It’s more work, especially at the onset. If you have to install solar panels, start a garden, build a home, dig a well, etc, that’s a lot of time commitment and some upfront costs.
• Off-grid living requires a certain amount of ongoing upkeep.
• There’s a learning curve. I don’t think off-grid topics are that complicated, but there is a large amount of info out there to digest.

All of the above is just the tip of a much larger off-grid iceberg. If you’re interested in off-grid living here are some resources:

• Off-grid net
• Off the Grid – a super keen book I love.
• Off the Grid
• Is Living Off the Grid Right For You?
• Brilliant and Bizarre Off-the-Grid Green Designs and Technologies – such a good post!

Maybe soon I’ll post some cool off-grid magazines (there are lots of good ones). For now, tell me about your goals… Is off-grid something you’re already doing or interested in doing?

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1. Find a BND event.
2. Do the obvious – hang with the family, have a cookie baking day, play games, go for a walk, plant a tree, play dress-up, sing, make some crafts, it’s a great day to find a family activity.
3. Go to a store, but not to shop, instead stick one of these up quietly.
4. Get started on a Buy Nothing Christmas. As BND advocates note, if a Buy Nothing Christmas is too extreme, try selling your family on, “A Buy Less Christmas. Or a $100 Christmas. Or a Regifting Christmas. Or a Green Christmas. Or a Slow-Down Christmas.”
5. Join the New Dream Community (all you need is an email). Once you join you’ll gain access to FREE booklets on the following topics:

• Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture
• Good Times Made Simple: The Lost Art of Fun
• Simplify the Holidays
• Back to School Buying and Action Guide
• Alternative Gift Fair Guide

Other good reads: 

• Give the gift of time this holiday season
• It’s not green Friday folks…
• Buy Nothing Day Tips
• Hypocritical me & the stuff issue
• Homemade Eco Gifts You Can Make for the Holidays!

November current events at Tree Hugging Family – themes, reviews, news, and more…

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Teach a child something or just spend some time: Honestly, I can’t tell you one item my grandma gave me for a holiday. But I think about everything she taught me or did with me all the time. How to sew, cook, play cards, paint, and more. Plus her stories stick with me. These are the things kids remember when they’re older, not that race car from ten birthdays ago.

Go on a family hike: Yup it’s cold, but nature looks different in winter than any other time of the year – get out and see it for yourself. Go at night and see the houses lit up (you’re allowed to cringe at the energy use, but you have to admit, it’s still pretty.)

Perk up an elderly family member’s house: They’ll appreciate it. You can shovel their walk, clean out the basement, or plant some bulbs that will come up in the spring.

Reconnect with someone: Write or call someone that you haven’t spoken to in a good long while. This is always a nice surprise.

Plan a fun day: Gather everyone, friends, family, whoever, at your home and have a great holiday cookie bake-off, a snow fort contest, play board games, or make homemade holiday gifts.

Take ten minutes a day to learn something new for the planet: Sign up for a green newsletter, add green new feeds to your rss, or visit an eco news blog or site a few times a week. Take some time to learn the issues that affect us all year round.

Volunteer anywhere. Find your opportunity.

What else would you suggest? How can you give the gift of time vs. stuff?  

November current events at Tree Hugging Family – themes, reviews, news, and more…

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These are posts full of tips that can help you to rethink purchases, money, and the general idea of stuff.

Cold Turkey Paper Towels & the What Questions

Why Does Being Green Cost So Much?

Organizing by Simplifying

How To Start Getting Rid of Stuff – Get Rid of “Maybe” Items

Kid specific consumer info: 

Raising Green Kids In A Commercial Culture

Kids & Shopping – How Kids Can Be Smart Consumers

My Own Little, His View of Commercials, & Tips for Talking With Your Kids About Purchases

As a parent, do you understand the impact of the need for stuff?

Eco-friendly Ways to Reward Kids

Commercials Are Everywhere

November current events at Tree Hugging Family – themes, reviews, news, and more…

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I’m not in the paper towel challenge, because we have zip paper towels at our house. We quit using them cold turkey. We didn’t ease down, or aim to use less, we just quit.

I asked myself: “What if the store was out of paper towels?” And, “What the heck did they do before paper towels?”

WHAT? Well, I’d use something else, find some other solution. Back in the day they used cloths and washed them. Or a mop. Or a plate. And so on. Asking yourself the question of “what” is actually a great way to go greener. It can be applied to so much.

What if the store ran out of foil? How did they ever manage? What if there was a snowstorm and you couldn’t get out? You’d use a lid, not broil foods on high, wash the cookie sheet.

What if your store was out of paper muffin cups? You could wash the muffin pan after using it.

What if your store was out of….

• Paper clips
• Juice boxes
• Video games
• Disposable silverware
• Toothbrush holders
• Water filters
• Tea pots
• Jarred baby food
• Sandwich baggies
• Magazines
• Soda
• Cotton balls
• Rubber bands
• TV dinners
• What else?

You’d manage. You’d find another way, find new entertainment, a new solution. You’d be ok. And I’m not saying that to be a good green citizen, you have to give up all modern conveniences. For example, I hope I don’t need to wonder what happens when the store runs out of toilet paper or god forbid my favorite red pens (yikes).

What I am saying, is that if all of us consider the what if questions a little more often, and try to find a better, greener solution, it could add up to a whole lot of change. The next time you’re at the store, try asking yourself “What if” and see if you can put one or two items back. Let me know if it works for you.

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in May 2008

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It’s not a realistic campaign. While I agree with the reasoning, I don’t much agree with how they’re trying to pull this whole, get the family together or get moving or what have you.

First off they lie, or at least exclude decision making processes:

From the TV Turnoff Network: “All TV is passive, sedentary and non-experiential. Most viewers tend to watch show after show–not individual programs. Instead of watching a documentary about birds, go out (with binoculars if you have them) and see how many real birds you can identify in your neighborhood. The purpose of National TV-Turnoff Week is to leave behind judgments about the quality of television and focus instead on creating, discovering, building, participating and doing.”

ALL TV is passive. Really? All of it. I think that’s a stretch. We learned things on home shows that we used to build our house (not passive). Cedar wants to join a jump rope team when he’s old enough and is already doing hip hop dance – every single day (not passive), and why? Because he watched Jump In on TV. If you’re going to call for a ban, at least be honest and consider that some people use the TV to their advantage in useful ways.

I hate the implication that humans can’t make good decisions when exposed to something that’s potentially harmful.

Is TV turnoff week realistic?:

There are other broad claims they make as well. However, one of my biggest issues with TV turnoff week goes back to the whole, it’s not realistic situation. Asking people to turn of the TV for a whole week is not a normal way to learn how to make change. In most cases folks won’t keep that TV off. They might for a while. In fact, the TV site claims that 90% of the folks who participate in turnoff week don’t return to their old TV laden habits. That said, how many are participating? That 90% is a pretty small number if the TV turnoff forums are any indication.

They’re asking for people to make huge leaps all at once instead of incorporating less TV on a normal sort of schedule. In my experience, large leaps don’t tend to hold up. In a completely bizarre switch, TV turnoff week goes from asking folks to make this broad jump, to asking people to make too minor of changes. Like the Family Dinner Night:

“Have you picked your night? Each one of us is picking a night, that cannot change. Pick yours and after dinner, pull out a board game, a deck of cards or something else to do and make a night of it.”

A dinner. One dinner? I’m sorry, but if you’re only eating one dinner, one meal a week together, there’s a much bigger issue at hand then television. Something besides TV is gonna have to give. You should be having far more meals together each week than one.

Learning by negatives:

Learning by negatives is also a big pet peeve of mine. I don’t agree with negatives to make a positive. If a child considers TV a positive in their world, then taking it away to teach them a lesson in fitness, family time, better grades, what have you, is a negative way to do so. A better and actually more realistic way to pull off this lesson is to simply incorporate outdoor time, family dinners, exercise, and togetherness into your life, before, or without taking anything away.

Is TV an easy thing to blame?

Trust me, your kids would rather be with you, doing fun things then watching TV – I’d bet on it. Your kids would rather eat with you than watch a movie. If this is not true in your house, if your kids don’t want to be with you, then however harsh it sounds, it’s your fault. As a parent you make the big choices. You make the choices from day one that define how your kids feel about family time, TV time, and most other issues. If your kids are reluctant to hang out, it tells me that so are you, and you need more than TV turnoff week. You need major changes in your household.

If TV turnoff week got you thinking about this fine, that’s a good thing that TV turnoff week has accomplished, but it’s not TV that’s the issue. It’s our family actions that are to blame. We talk about spending time with our kids a lot here. One because that’s how it should be. And two, the only way our children pick up our green actions is by being with us, by doing.

30 ideas for family activities:

1. Make Your Own Natural, Colorful Dyes – Great Kid Nature Project
2. Play dress up – let the littles totally raid your make-up and clothes
3. Make Your Own Solar Light!
4. Color
5. Green audit your trash as a family
6. Play board games
7. Nature Themed Autumn Craft
8. Build A Plant Maze!
9. Go fishing
10. Make some paper
11. Read together
12. Take a sign language class
13. Cook a meal
14. See what other other families are doing
15. Homemade Organic Paint Soap for Kids
16. Play with clay
17. Study water – and do some experiments
18. Bake cookies or cupcakes
19. Five Fun Ways to Reconnect with Nature
20. Go bike riding.
21. Go On A Treasure Hunt
22. Join Journey North
23. Build a playing card castle
24. Start a garden
25. Search for rocks
26. Get outside
27. Get a pet
28. Volunteer to build a house
29. Go swimming
30. Volunteer to keep the planet clean

There are at least a hundred more ideas on this blog alone related to activities and actions you can take as a family. Not to mention countless others beyond this one little blog. Honestly, you don’t even have to do anything dramatic – just hanging out around the house, doing everyday tasks together works. Don’t just celebrate TV turnoff week to see if you’re up to some random challenge. Make the challenge about your whole world. This is your life, your children’s lives, time you can’t get back. All in all, my biggest issue, I suppose, is that we can do so much better then TV turnoff week.

What do you think?

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Many of us are welcoming spring today, so I thought it would be nice to go over some nature loving, tree hugging, eco-friendly ideas that will carry the entire family through the better part of spring and into summer.

1. Quit looking at nature through your frosty windows. It’s warming up, so get out there and enjoy nature in real time, in real life, in full blown color.

2. Throw open your windows wide and let in the fresh air. Natural ventilation is actually a really effective green home goal to aim for. Proper cross ventilation naturally helps to remove any indoor pollution caused by molds, mites, varnishes, paints, cleaners, and more.

3. Have a spring reusable bag sewing party.

4. Use the spring lilacs to create something sweet.

5. Celebrate spring like other cultures do:

• In Egypt, you throw open your windows and breathe deep on the first day of spring. Later have a picnic.
• In Poland a large straw doll is dressed up in old clothes, and then thrown in the river – ok, maybe don’t do that one (not great for fish).
• The festival of colors, or Holi, is a Hindu spring festival, observed in North India and Nepal where children squirt colored water on each other to celebrate.
• What other spring traditions do cultures celebrate? Tell me what you know.

6. See the zoo babies.

7. Try left-over heat cooking for your spring recipes. This means turn the stove top or oven off when food is almost done. Pasta, veggies, rolls, and even meats in the oven will be ok (and fully cooked) if you turn off the heat a few minutes early. Just leave the oven door shut, the pot top on, etc. Imagine how many minutes of energy you will have saved by next spring.

8. Enjoy new blossoms and leaves sprouting to life on the trees.

9. Build a rain barrel to collect spring showers.

10. Rent lawn equipment that you know you will only use occasionally.

11. Alternatively, start a neighborhood co-op of lawn equipment. Purchase together and share major item.

12. Visit a waterfall – this is the best time of year for waterfalls, snow is melting, and the water comes crashing down.

13. Spring clean – just don’t spring clean with chemicals and other icky stuff. Make this year’s spring cleaning actually clean and healthy.

14. Learn which fruits and veggies are in season and eat bunches of them. Buying in season and locally grown is better for the earth, your wallet, and your health.

15. Choose a recycled plastic picnic table.

16. Fold a “springing” froggy out of recycled paper.

17. If your coffee shop of choice serves single serve sugars and creamers, choose a new favorite coffee shop or ask them to get large, bulk containers of cream and sugar.

18. Visit a wetland area – there are still enough wetland areas so that it’s safe to assume that there’s one near you, but there may not be for long. Without conservation we could lose some major wetland areas. I’d visit soon because it’s not clear yet that enough people care to save them. Ask your local visitors center where you can find a wetland area near you.

19. Get some cool spring worthy eco-toys. These new toys from Green Toys are created from curbside recycled milk containers. The actual shop should be open in the spring sometime, but until then you can contact the company directly with purchase inquiries. They have a great Sand Play Set or Organic Gardening Set.

20. Is it still too cold for flowers where you live? Make some colorful recycled tissue paper garlands to add spring to your house. (Use that used holiday tissue that I know you saved). Better yet, make a garland and give it to a neighbor, friend, elderly home, or children’s ward at a hospital.

21. Rejoice in spring flowers.

22. Help your kids to join Journey North.

23. Buy a reclaimed wood garden bench so you can sit outside and read.

24. This season, and each season have your car engine tuned up and serviced. Following a decent tune up schedule will reduce the amount of pollution your car emits by 20%. Better yet you’ll save on fuel – good for the earth and wallet.

25. Hunt for birds nests – don’t touch though, just look.

26. Build your own compost bin for recycling spring garden and kitchen scraps.

27. Visit a rural farm. Notice how a farm in spring differs from where you live. Unless of course you do live on a farm – then visit a city park and observe the same differences.

28. Go ahead, green your entire Easter celebration.

29. Or at least make your own recycled magazine Easter baskets.

30. If you go on a green picnic this spring make sure six packs with plastic rings aren’t on the menu. One, the plastic rings when not cut can kill birds, fish, and other wildlife. Two, plastic won’t degrade until well after your great grandchildren are celebrating their springs. And three, there’s no need to have them. Many canned drink products now come in boxes instead of with rings. If you’re buying canned drinks, get those instead.

31. Get some eco-friendly rain gear for the whole family so you can go splash in spring puddles.

32. Get your spring garden seeds organized using recycled milk cartons.

33. Rent a greener car on your spring break vacation.

34. Don’t defrost the Easter Ham in the microwave. Microwave defrosting wastes more energy than planning ahead and defrosting in the fridge.

35. Go searching for the end of a rainbow.

36. You still have time for a spring garden clean up.

37. This year combine your spring cleaning with some green audits: Try green auditing your trash, bathroom, or your pantry.

38. Get in the habit of nighttime watering now. Watering your lawn and garden is much more efficient at night than in the daytime. In the cool of evening plants lose almost 50% less water than in the heat. That adds up to a ton of water saved each year. Of course you can double your water saving efforts by using your saved rainwater.

39. On each of your spring outings pick up one piece of trash. If everyone did this that would be over 300 million fewer pieces of litter on our streets, in our parks, and so on, daily.

40. Relax… think about simplifying your life and time.

41. As summer gets closer consider organizing a summer toy lending program with other families – this cuts down on consumption, teaches kids about sharing, and uses fewer resources and energy. Get ideas for your lending program here.

42. Now that it’s warming up, turn your heating down by 5 more degrees. Each 5 degree decrease saves up to 11% energy consumption a year.

43. If you go camping, leave nothing behind in nature. Pack up all your belongings and carry them out of the forest with you.

44. Get up close and personal with some fresh grass – ponder a single blade. Think about all the good reasons why you shouldn’t add chemical poisonous fertilizer to your grass this year

45. Get that recycling under control.

46. Learn to love slow mail – the quicker you send your mail or ask for packages to be delivered to you, the worse it is for the planet. Transportation is hugely connected to pollution and global warming. The more transport we require the worse it is. Quit with the two day mail services. You don’t need stuff right away, and if you know you will, plan accordingly.

47. Try out one of 10 great organic gardening projects for kids this spring.

48. See how many toads you can count at the local river or lake. Can you find tadpoles too?

49. If you take out an off-road vehicle this spring, stick to where you should be. Running over habitats is not cool – you could destroy an animal’s home, kill rare plants, and harm tree roots. Stick to wide trails that are deemed ok for off-road travel.

50. Get away from it all. Imagine what life would be like away from all the hustle and bustle most of the time.

51. Blow bubbles! Make some homemade bubble mix out of a tablespoon of glycerin, a cup of natural liquid soap, and a gallon of water (give or take). Make your own bubble wands out of recycled items like…

• Butter or yogurt tub tops with holes punched in them.
• Green plastic strawberry containers.
• Bent wire hangers.
• That fly swatter you never use.
• Pipe cleaners bent into fun shapes.

52. Hang out with a family of ducks.

53. Dare your family to take at least 5 small steps for the environment by summer.

54. Go on a wildflower hike.

55. Clean out your closets – give good clothing away to the thrift store, make cleaning rags out of the worst, and save the cherished pieces for a memory quilt.

56. Make sure your family participates in eco-friendly boating (if you boat).

57. Slap a fresh coat of paint on the house – non-toxic, VOC-free paint of course.

58. When spring cleaning, don’t forget the car. However, use a bucket of water and an old rag to scrub away dirt, not the power spray on the hose. Every minute you run the hose you’re wasting 10 (or more) gallons of water. There are people in other countries who can’t even find one decent glass of water to drink, and animals and fish who have lost whole water habitats due to water waste. There’s no excuse for excessive water waste.

59. Go bicycling as a family – double your efforts by actually having an errand destination; the grocery store, library, the park for lunch. Every time you don’t take your car, you’re doing the earth some good.

60. Plant a tree – it’s almost always a good time to plant a tree, but spring is really nice because a new tree’s roots won’t be shocked by the cold anytime soon.

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Raising Green Kids In A Commercial Culture

Commercials Are Everywhere

Eco-friendly Ways to Reward Kids

I know many families with homes beyond their needs. Not always necessarily above their needs but absolutely beyond. I’ve known couple friends (no kids yet) who buy homes with six bedrooms and four baths, who have three cars, and all the new gadgets you could want. One such couple I know will really lay into you if you’re not up on all the best new golf gear and redecorating yearly in order to get a fresh home.

I know people with kids who work two and three jobs. In some of these families, I know for a fact that one of the parents would rather be home with the kids, but they’ll say they can’t afford it. When I bring up the things they could drop in order to afford it; the extra car, the extra cable, the extra gardening equipment no one has time to use, the extra guest rooms and dinners out, they say that’s just normal stuff , that they can’t afford to stay home and we cycle argue over it.

These are families where kids are in before school care, after school care, and weekend activities. There’s a bare minimum of family time, no environmental family activities happening, and this isn’t because the family needs to work that extra job to put food on the table, it’s because they’re paying for extra stuff.

Are all families I know like this? No, I do know some families who make less, who have to work two jobs to afford necessities, but in many cases, I see families who could drop the stuff, and add more time. It’s a matter of priorities.

With all the commercialism and the drive to get more, more, more, out there, our kids are going to look to us as parents first and foremost when making decisions about the importance of stuff. I guarantee that if you’re already putting stuff ahead of time with your kids, they’re not going to understand why they shouldn’t want the extra gear and gadgets.

My first suggestion:

As eluded to above, the first and most important step in dealing with kids and commercialism is to make sure your own need for stuff is in check. If you don’t understand the impact buying stuff has on your life, the environment, and your family, you need to, or your arguments against stuff with your kids won’t go very far.

If you haven’t considered how stuff controls your life – how it zaps your time, I suggest you check out one or both of the following books from your local library:

Your Money or Your Life: This book is all about transforming your relationship with money, stuff, and time. It covers how all three interconnect, and pushes for a more authentic, more people based, less materialistic life. Not only does this book discuss the issue, but it gives you real, solid tools for making change.

The Circle of Simplicity: This book has a financial component but is extra heavy on the behind the scenes need for stuff. How to get rid of it, how to buy less, finding and living your passion, forming community groups that focus on togetherness, and clearing space, both in your mind and literally.

Since this is the most important step, we’ll leave it at this for now. In the next post, I’ll discuss how I actually talk to Cedar about stuff, and what I’ve seen work for me and other families.

In case you think I’m being unreasonable:

By the way, commercialism has been embedded in our skulls since birth in this country. I’m absolutely not trying to imply that I’m perfect and that other families are screwing up. It’s a process around my house too. I never thought, I mean really thought about the impact of stuff until maybe 10 years ago, and now, even for me, it can be hard to resist stuff at times (darn those old LPs and art supplies).

It’s about balance. I don’t believe in giving up everything we enjoy. Cedar and I own stuff, but we also don’t put stuff before our time together. If we did, there’s no way as a single mama, that I could afford to be at home with him, spending time with him. Additionally, some of our decisions around stuff have to do with the environment. Even if we can afford something, it’s important to note that it doesn’t mean we need, or even deeply want, that something. There are some choices we need to make if we care about the earth. Cedar and I make choices just like everyone else.

What choices are you currently making related to stuff? Are you happy with your choices? Or, do you wish your choices could be different?

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My ideal answer to the question above would be, “Easy, I could just go.”

My main goal for New Years was to get rid of more stuff. Right now, I have more stuff still than I’d like. I’m not a pack rat or anything, I just do have stuff. Over 30 odd years it builds up. In my case a lot of my stuff consists of books, paper items like notes, saved articles and such, and art supplies. If Cedar and I were to pack it up and travel, we’d need a medium sized storage space (for both furniture and boxes). To me that’s too much. Lately I just want to simplify as much as possible.

I have been working on my goals though. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

Went through my files and recycled about half of my paperwork. I saved obvious stuff like tax and medical files and got rid of most of the rest.

Over the last few days I’ve been going through books. I have about 300 or so. Now I’ve set maybe 100 aside to sell at Powells Book’s. This has been really hard. I love my books, or did, I’m starting to feel confined by them though. It’s time to let go. I’m also going to give some away – the ones that are more used looking. In all I should end up about 200 books lighter.

I think I’m going to try and get my art supplies organized too – but I’m still working on a good solution. Because we homeschool, we do use them all, but I think I want less.

Lastly, soon, Cedar and I are going to go through his toys. While I’m not a pack rat, this kid sure is. He has tons of stuff.

If I bought an RV and Cedar and I took off, or wanted to backpack for a while, it would be easier with less stuff. Since that is in our future plans, it makes my goal easier to work on.

Here are some more resources about having too much stuff:

The hidden costs of too much stuff - MSN Money

Stuff Owns You

The awesome Story of Stuff video.

Two of the most influential books to me about stuff have been Your Money or Your Life and Into the Wild. I highly suggest both – although, I don’t necessarily suggest you take off for the wilds of Alaska quite like the kid in Into the Wild did, it’s still a good example of being less confined. They recently made a movie of Into the Wild – no where near as good as the book, but beautiful, here’s some musical inspiration from that flick.

So, how are your green New Year’s goals going?

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Benefits of solar cooking are plentiful:

No energy drains.

It’s free! Until the sun starts charging us $.

Studies have shown that two solar cooked meal a week can save massive energy over time, including wood (where people cook with wood).

There’s no smoke with solar cooking, thus no harmful carcinogens, in you or your food.

It’s portable – it’s so hard to take your kitchen stove camping.

It’s fun. And there’s not much else cuter than kids slapping tortillas on a solar cooker.

How to make a solar cooker.

I could just tell you, but then I’d have to find visuals. It’s much easier with visuals. So, links!

• Bernard Solar Panel Cooker
• The Pizza Box Solar Oven
• Zoom Solar Cookers
• Building a Solar Oven

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