Solar Cooking: Helping to Avert Disaster In Africa
Solar cooking can help fend off any impending environmental calamities in Africa.
Instead of wood fire or fossil fuels, communities can cook their food by harnessing the heat of the sun through a simple solar oven.
This is an incredibly cheap and effective alternative to traditional cooking.
According to a study by the World Wildlife Fund, with a single solar stove, families stand to save up to 30 liters of kerosene and a ton of firewood each year.
For the environment, this means an average of one ton of carbon dioxide reduced annually.
This amazing statistic opens up opportunities for Africa to reverse the widespread environmental degradation caused by charcoal burning and diminishing forest cover in the country.
For governments and non-government organizations, solar cooking presents hopeful prospects for recovery.
Solar-powered ovens can easily be introduced to communities, helping families save on energy costs while preserving the environment.
Because it uses renewable energy from the sun, cooking through solar energy produces no pollution and no greenhouse gases.
There is a need for fast action in Africa, especially because environment issues are ultimately intertwined with the quality of life.
If the ecological problems are not arrested, this could result in more poverty and decreased food production.
As of the latest accounts, desert zones continue to encroach upon communities.
And food and water have become even scarcer.
While solar cooking is by no means the cure-all for Africa's problems, it nonetheless presents a good place to begin.
With enough vision, and with a little help from solar-powered ovens, African governments and non-governmental organizations can finally address not just environmental damage but also the widespread poverty and hunger that come with it.
Instead of wood fire or fossil fuels, communities can cook their food by harnessing the heat of the sun through a simple solar oven.
This is an incredibly cheap and effective alternative to traditional cooking.
According to a study by the World Wildlife Fund, with a single solar stove, families stand to save up to 30 liters of kerosene and a ton of firewood each year.
For the environment, this means an average of one ton of carbon dioxide reduced annually.
This amazing statistic opens up opportunities for Africa to reverse the widespread environmental degradation caused by charcoal burning and diminishing forest cover in the country.
For governments and non-government organizations, solar cooking presents hopeful prospects for recovery.
Solar-powered ovens can easily be introduced to communities, helping families save on energy costs while preserving the environment.
Because it uses renewable energy from the sun, cooking through solar energy produces no pollution and no greenhouse gases.
There is a need for fast action in Africa, especially because environment issues are ultimately intertwined with the quality of life.
If the ecological problems are not arrested, this could result in more poverty and decreased food production.
As of the latest accounts, desert zones continue to encroach upon communities.
And food and water have become even scarcer.
While solar cooking is by no means the cure-all for Africa's problems, it nonetheless presents a good place to begin.
With enough vision, and with a little help from solar-powered ovens, African governments and non-governmental organizations can finally address not just environmental damage but also the widespread poverty and hunger that come with it.
