A century ago, home life in Vermont revolved around the wood burning cook stove. Meals were prepared, bread baked and hands warmed from the heat it produced. Stoves with names like Gold Coin, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nothing says cozy quite like the ambiance of a roaring fire on a snowy day. Unfortunately, fireplaces ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

Biomass cook stoves aren’t exactly the most environmentally friendly cooking option out there, but some 3.5 billion people around the world still cook with solid fuel. Not only are the stoves ...

Until recently, Hadija Hasan Chocha cooked her family’s meals on an open fire in a thatched kitchen at her home in Mchakama Village. “Three time a week I would walk to the nearby forest to find ...

Finding that it provides plenty of heat for both floors of 1,000 square-foot straw bale home during long winters in rural Ontario. Tim and Jan King of Long Prairie, Minn., use their Waterford Stanley ...

Regulation is driving innovation as stove makers improve their designs to meet certification requirements, MacCarty said. But wood stoves perform differently in the lab than they do in real life, she ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

In September 2013, Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Glatt met a 14-year-old girl who was breastfeeding a baby. She was clearly very ill, so he took her to the local hospital, in Guerrero, Mexico, where she ...

Tonight, more than a century ago all the cooking was done on a wood stove, not an air fryer, or a microwave, but on beautiful pieces made of iron. It's rare to find one these days, and as Karen Meyers ...