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Meet Mexico’s ‘cocineras solas’ or solar cooks. These Indigenous women from Oaxaca state have swapped their traditional wood or gas-fired ovens with clean, sunshine-powered solar stoves - with enormous benefits. #Solar stoves produce no indoor air pollution, a global scourge that causes 3.2 million deaths every year. They also save households money on fuel costs, cut CO2 emissions, and curb deforestation. Today, there are 500 cocineras solas in #Oaxaca - and their numbers are growing. As the wor