-" Highly recommended for community discussion, classroom viewing, research, and club, scouts, and religious projects.
—Mary Ellen Snodgrass, (Counterpoise)

-"An inspiring effort; recommended for large libraries with an interest in the developing world or the environment.
-Bette-Lee Fox (Library Journal)



In Kenya, deforestation has been so devastating that only three percent of tree-cover remains. In the camps of the northeast, home to tens of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, families trade half of their monthly humanitarian food allotments for firewood that lasts only a few days. Throughout the region women spend hours a day searching for firewood, competing with thousands of others. The result has been horrendous deforestation and with it, massive soil erosion that has removed thousands of acres of land from cultivation. The smoke from cook fires has debilitating health consequences. The charismatic leader Margaret Owino and Suncookers International have created and popularized a remarkable, simple solution: solar cookers. These cardboard and aluminum foil ovens can cook efficiently in sun-rich Kenya, purify water, and save women the back breaking, life consuming drudgery of searching for dwindling supplies of wood.

This emotion stirring, hopeful documentary demonstrates how a simple technology and a few committed, organized people can bring about profound social transformation.

The extended DVD also includes:
*Recipes from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Belize, France and the U.S.
*Interviews with Mary Frank, artist and solar cooker enthusiast, Muna Lakhani of Earthlife, South Africa, and Nobel Lauriat Wangari Mathall.
*A slide show of solar cooking around the world
*DIY patterns for making your own solar cooker
*Many stories for people using solar cookers
*Fuel consumption graphs.