OrjaBox – featured in the Down to Earth Magazine
Our small effort to promote green fuels for cooking has been featured in the Down to Earth Magazine.https://www.downtoearth.org.in/
Awareness
Adding Clean Cooked & Dried Flavors to our life
Dried fruits and vegetables retain large amounts of vitamins, fiber, and minerals. Sun-dried products can be stored for use in soups, cereals, and trail mixes (like delicious snacks). Your sun-dried harvest doesn’t contain preservatives or chemicals. The process of preserving food is something mankind is familiar with since the days of yore. Several folklores recount …
OrjaBox – A step towards a Sustainable Future
Eighty-four percent of households that use traditional solid fuels along with LPG cite high cylinder costs as one of their reasons for reverting to traditional solid fuels. This finding is significant in the context of the ongoing surge in LPG prices, which have risen to over Rs. 1000 per cylinder. Several rural beneficiaries of the …
Children’s Day Special Event At Orjabox
I am Shruti Joshi,I have just completed my 12th Std. Instead of whiling away my time amidst the next admission process, I decided to join Orjabox,a company that promotes cooking with green fuels. I am interning with Orjabox for over three weeks now. The very first activity assigned to me was to co-ordinate a solar activity day …
Clean Cooking Demonstration
Learnings from Rural Maharashtra We have re-started conducting field demonstrations to promote clean cooking in rural and peri-urban areas. These demonstrations are an effort to connect all aspects of clean cooking together to facilitate wider adoption. Here are our learnings from our recent interaction with folks in a village close to Pune city. Social Aspects: …
Clean Cooking With Indiahikes
Have you ever been on a trek to high altitudes and wondered how to sustainably cook your meals at these altitudes? Well, OrjaBox and IndiaHikes successfully used solar cookers and biochar steam cookers at one high altitude location. This clean cooking demonstration was conducted from March 4th to March 8th , at Sari village in …
Sustainable Cooking – an imperative solution for the food security challenge
For thousands of years, cooking has been an integral part of our existence since we learned the application of fire. Over these countless years, cooking has evolved to define our culture, health, and agriculture. In this age of digitization and automation cooking remains one of our core activities -either as a food processing industry or …
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Video Series -Fuels Used in Indian Kitchens
OrjaBox presents a video series on – Cooking Fuels in Indian Kitchens. This video captures various cooking fuels used in rural and urban kitchens, the cost of fuels, and access to fuels. This video series gives insights about the needs and following action points for making cooking sustainable in rural and urban areas. Designing good …
Event – Session On Renewable Energy Basics
Happy to present an exciting session on Renewable Energy Basics for students of class 8th – class 10th. Registration link: https://forms.gle/fYX6CowZnQ9Dwdfq5 For queries write to [email protected] For more activities do check our Gallery Page
Sustainable Cooking-Fuel and Stove Selection
Our survey revealed that most of our respondents use gas and electricity for cooking. Very few people have access to solar cooking, biogas, and improved biomass cookstoves for cooking. Fuel selection and stove selection have a considerable impact on the cooking budget of families as well as on the environment. Approximately 50% -60% of the …