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The sun is a solution. 98% of light striking black is absorbed. Light is energy, not heat. Once absorbed it lowers its frequency and becomes heat. It has more than enough energy to cook with. To capture it, use it and enjoy it has been known for a long time. A naturalist by the name of Horace de Saussure designed the first box cooker. He developed it in the 1700’s. This remains the archetype solar cooking device.

More and more people are realising the importance of growing their own food. It’s not only about feeding the body and reducing one’s vulnerability to the whims of the market place. It’s also about building a strong immune system by eating fresh, safe, nutritious and tasty food grown on healthy soil that is packed full of life-giving minerals and cosmic vibrations.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has rejected allegations that biofuels are responsible for the recent rise in global food prices. He said food had become more expensive because people in developing countries were gaining greater access to it. Mr Lula was speaking at a conference of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Brasilia.

Muizenberg’s first cob house has almost been completed. Cob is one of the natural building techniques — like adobe bricks, rammed earth, sandbag structures and straw bale — presently used in South Africa. All of them use natural materials (sand, clay, straw) to create solid structures that breathe