The Kyoto Box solar cooker, an updated design, has just won first place in the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge. According to an article in Green Futures magazine, “The Kyoto Box uses ...

NOTE: Updates have revealed that the Kyoto Box is just one version of a solar cardboard cooker. Other examples can be found here and here, or through a google search.

His hope is that the cooker will be eligible for carbon credits – hence the name Kyoto Box. The €20-30 yearly profit per stove would be passed on to the users, meaning the device pays for itself.

A solar-powered cardboard cooker will on Thursday be announced the winner of a $75,000 competition to tackle climate change. The Kyoto Box uses the sun’s rays to cook food and boil water.

Captured solar energy heats up the air in the box enough to boil food and water and bake, but the stove is not powerful enough to fry food. A prototype of the award-winning Kyoto Box solar cooker.

John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water ...

Solar cookers are not new but what makes the Kyoto Box exciting is its simplicity and low cost – each can be made for 5 Euros – which means it could be used by millions in the developing world. It has ...

A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas. The Kyoto Box is made from cardboard and can be used for sterilising water or boiling or baking food. The Kenyan-based inventor ...

One little solar cooker aims to take a big bite out of climate change. The Kyoto Box, designed by Norwegian entrepreneur Jon Bøhmer, is intended as an alternative for millions of people who burn ...

The Kyoto Box, named after the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol that seeks to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, has won the Climate Change Challenge's $100,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming.

A solar-powered cardboard cooker is the winner of Forum for the Future’s Climate Change Innovation competition. Kenyan-based entrepreneur Jon Bøhmer’s Kyoto Box – a simple construction from two ...

A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas. The Kyoto Box is made from cardboard and can be used for sterilising water or boiling or baking food. The Kenyan-based inventor ...