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Test the SolSource Solar Cooker at Earth Day Texas 2017 This weekend, One Earth Designs will join thousands of other environmentally-minded people at the world’s largest Earth Day celebration in Dallas, Texas. SolSource has been featured on the popular cooking show Top Chef, and is used by families wanting to take the first steps in reducing their environmental impact. At Earth Day Texas, attendees will have the opportunity to see solar cooking in action, learn about how it works, and what it can be used for.     For a sneak peak on what you might experience this weekend, watch Bob Bradshaw cooking breakfast with SolSource at Earth Day Texas last year:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jfQAvh2Hg   Why Earth Day Matters   Though Earth Day only comes around once each year, One Earth Designs is…

Solar Oven Or Solar Cooker? When someone mentions solar cooker or solar cookers, the image that often comes to mind is a box with a glass top and reflectors standing up around the lid. You might have baked chocolate chip cookies in one like that during summer camp. Maybe you even helped construct it using cardboard and aluminum foil. But such a solar oven is just one kind of solar cooking technology. There are different solar ovens and solar cookers: each with its strengths, each with its uses. It turns out that human ingenuity has devised a myriad of designs for cooking with the sun. Here we present two main categories: solar ovens and parabolic solar cookers. Both concepts are based on the same cool idea: to concentrate sunlight onto cookware, produce…