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Published April 13, 2009 @ 08:03PM PT

Jon Bohmer's $5 cardboard box oven, the "Kyoto Box," has won the FT Climate Change Challenge to find and publicize the most innovative and practical solutions to climate change.

Per CNN:

The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun's rays and traps them.

Black paint on the inner box, and silver foil on the outer one, help concentrate the heat. The trapped rays make the inside hot enough to cook casseroles, bake bread and boil water.

What the box also does is eliminate the need in developing countries for rural residents to cut down trees for firewood. About 3 billion people around the world do so, adding to deforestation and, in turn, global warming.

By allowing users to boil water, the simple device could also potentially save the millions of children who die from drinking unclean water.

Via BoingBoing

Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. From TED.com.

One More Good Reason to Save the Arctic Ice: To keep crazy women trying to turn themselves into polar bear hors d'oeuvres -- with the bears (these, residents of Zoo Berlin) getting the blame.

Van Jones, the founding president of Green For All, and lately Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), offers advice for small businesses pondering how they fit in to the eco-revolution. Part of the Pop!Tech/American Express OPEN Series.

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