EditorialSolar panels used by residents in Khasham Zana, a Bedouin village in the Negev desert, in Israel on June 6, 2021. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
EditorialYves Voltaire, left, and Galadu Subah make their rounds restocking community refrigerators in Harlem, Jan. 16, 2021. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialYves Voltaire, left, and Galadu Subah make their rounds restocking community refrigerators in Harlem, Jan. 16, 2021. (Anna Watts/The New York Times)
EditorialDoris Vincent with her freezer, which stands in addition to her three refrigerators, in Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 16, 2021. (Swikar Patel/The New York Times)
EditorialPlastic bags are used to keep a cool area near refrigerators during power fluctuations at a grocery store in Dallas, Texas, Feb. 16, 2021. (Nitashia Johnson/The New York Times)
EditorialDelivery workers prepare their CoCos, mobile refrigerators, to deliver products to their clients in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 3, 2020. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)
EditorialFrancisco Ramirez hands out free food from a fridge, recently painted by the graffiti artist Hugo Gyrl, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, June 16, 2020. (Stephanie Keith/The New York Times)
EditorialAn employee sanitizes refrigerators at a Whole Foods store in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, March 15, 2020. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)