Dear WISE Readers,
This is our last Communique before taking our Summer break. Actually, while we have had some good news for you since the beginning of the year, most of our NCs have been full of rather depressing stuff. Unfortunately, that's the nature of our work: Dealing with nukes and the people who inflict them on us is just no fun. Needless to say, we are looking forward to a bit of a break. And we thought you might want a break, too. So... instead of filling this issue completely with more of the same awful, messy, depressing stuff, we have decided to devote at least half of it to something fun, practical and environmentally healthy: Solar Cooking (Or How to Cook in a Cardboard Box).
No, really! It works and it's easy to do. Directions to build your very own solar cooker are included in this issue, courtesy of Solar Box Cookers International (SBCI). The directions are taken from an 18-page pamphlet published by SBCI. Unfortunately, we only have room to publish part of it, but it's enough to get you started. For the full pamphlet for more information on variations, solutions to problems you might encounter, and other uses for your solar box,
write SBCI, 1724 Eleventh Street, Sacramento CA 95814, US. Its available in English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. Cost: US$5. (SBCI, a non-profit organization, also publishes the "Solar Box Cookers International Newsletter" as well as other materials. Their goal is to see that 2.4 billion people will know how to cook with the sun by the year 2000.)
See you in six weeks!
The WISE-Amsterdam Collective