Eco-cooker, Generation Google, Kiva in the US

Since Clark Boyd has deemed it fit to swan off around the country with his college buddies this week, it falls to me to fill his ample shoes. Really, the man’s feet are huge.

Three stories today: the first is a look at an impressive piece of engineering – a cooker that its makers claim reduces carbon emissions by a staggering degree.

Then there’s a check-in with Kiva, the microlending organisation based in the States. For the most part, they’ve been working to get people to support projects overseas. Now they’re extending their efforts to projects here at home too.

Finally we’ve got a kind of child development / thinky piece about growing up in an online world. Kids, it would seem, are going to be way better at this stuff than those of us who remember, say, Metal Mickey. Plus some brilliant new music from the Brookyln electropop supaproduca (and, er, ‘singa’) Alan Wilkis. Enjoy.