The Joy! Click here to read my essay “Solar Inspiration,” first published in Silver City’s Desert Exposure.
 
 
 
* Solar ovens save energy
* Solar ovens save money
* Solar ovens save forests and other ecological resources
* Solar ovens don’t pollute
* Solar ovens can be built by You!
* Solar ovens can cook anything & all of your oven recipes
* Solar ovens don’t dry out your food
* Solar ovens are forgiving and don’t burn your food (unless you really try, and then barely)
* Solar ovens get you outdoors and more in tune with nature and the weather
* Solar ovens make you take breaks, so are good for stress
* Solar ovens help you develop your intuition
* Solar ovens are a survival item
* Solar ovens can sterilize water
* Solar ovens make food taste better
* Solar ovens imbue your food with natural vibes
* Solar ovens don’t heat up your house in summer
* Solar ovens don’t smell up your house with foods you’d rather not do that, and don’t require you vent your house in winter
* Solar ovens work with as little as twenty minutes of sun per hour
* Solar ovens can be used for canning
* Solar ovens can be built with salvage materials
* Solar ovens save people in poorer countries from walking miles for firewood
* Solar ovens save people in poorer countries from breathing wood smoke throughout the day, every day
* Sun Ovens (tm) spend a significant profit from every oven sold on ovens sent to poorer countries    
* Solar ovens give communities an easy example of self-sufficiency
* Solar ovens are educational
* Solar ovens demonstrate how easy it might be to create home hot water
* Solar ovens hint at how we might retrofit our homes for wintertime passive solar gain
* Solar ovens inspire!
Here’s a letter from a happy buyer, just a few days after her oven arrived! Hi Jean….We are so happy with our Sun Oven. I have baked a pumpkin and pumpkin pie, some muffins, warmed over a pasta dish, cooked a salmon, potato and green bean dinner, and am now cooking lentils and brown rice (almost your recipe). Thank you so much for introducing us to solar cooking…. Gayle
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We’re laughing at my poor Spanish.  This family in Peru cooks with wood on an adobe stove in a small, dark, unventilated room.  
I’ve traveled very little in my life, but took an opportunity in 2007 to travel to the Sacred Valley.  When I told these people about solar ovens (in my hilariously broken Spanish), they were fascinated and obviously would like to have one.  I told them I’d bring one if I was ever able to return.  
Since that doesn’t look likely any time soon, I’m taking donations now for an oven to send with a friend who’s goes there regularly.  Your donations will help pay for an oven for this family.
I’ve collected $125 so far!  Now I need: $119 more.
Click here to make donation for Sun Ovens to families in the deforested Sacred Valley.
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Pat loves her solar oven so much, she showed everyone on her Christmas list!