Villager Sun Oven Is a Deforestation Alternative

The Villager Sun Oven is a Deforestation Alternative

Forests are dwindling at a more rapid rate than ever before. One third of humanity, over 2.4 billion people, depends on wood and charcoal to prepare food and the worldwide supply of wood is rapidly decreasing. The demands of massive population growth and the inefficient conversion of wood to charcoal have outstripped much of the world’s forest’s ability to regenerate, creating a phenomenon known as deforestation.

Deforestation is the gravest environmental crisis facing the world today. Its far-reaching effects include:

• The decreasing availability of firewood.
• Removing the trees from an area is to remove its source of life. (Deforestation has left more than 25% of the continent of Africa almost useless for cultivation.)
• Forests protect the soil against erosion and reduce the risks of landslides and avalanches.
• Forests increase the rate that rainwater recharges groundwater as well as control the rate that water is released in watersheds, helping sustain freshwater supplies.
• Forests affect the climate. The occurrence and strength of floods and droughts increase when they are eliminated.
• Forests are an important source of oxygen.
• Forests store large amounts of carbon that are released when trees are cut or burned.

The use of SUN OVEN® solar ovens can eliminate the use of up to 70% of the wood which is currently being consumed for household cooking.