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Major news items can be seen at in Top news. All other new content added to the site as well as more minor news stories can be seen below:
April 2024
- Advocacy: Podcaster Nate Hagens is joined by solar oven collector and educator, Luther Krueger, to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking
- Design: Haines Pop Open Solar Cooker
- Online: (EVENT) Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C.): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access
- USA: (EVENT) Saturday, 13 April 2024 (Bowie, Maryland) (12-4pm EDT): Bowie Green Expo - Solar Household Energy will be demonstrating solar cookers
- Nicaragua: Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit: Stories of Solidarity, Solar Cooking, and Women’s Leadership in Central America. New book by Laura Snyder Brown & William Fleet Lankford
- Annual Report: Solar Household Energy: 2021 Annual Report
- Algeria: (EVENT) Thursday, 18 April 2024: Development of Solar Cooking in Algeria - Information Day at the Center for Renewable Energies Development, CDER at 9am
- Mexico: (EVENT) Sunday, 7 April 2024 (Cuernavaca, Morelos): Fourth Meeting of the Cuernavaca Solar Cooking and Solar Drying Club - It takes place every first Sunday of the month, 11:00am - 2:00pm.
- United Kingdom: Sunstore Technologies, located in Edinburgh, manufacture a solar electric hybrid cooker
- Advocacy: SCI Executive Director, Caitlyn Hughes, was invited to the Sheryl's Good Deeds radio show on Mix96Sac, underscoring SCI's dedication to empowering women and girls worldwide through clean cooking solutions
- Haiti: Solar Cookers for Haiti organizes a solar cooked meal for the kids at several orphanages near Hinche
- Patent: Long-Term Heat Storage Device and Method for Long-Term Heat Storage of Solar Energy and Other Types of Energy with Changing Availability - Vladan Petrovic
March 2024
- Advocacy: Solar Lights the Path Out of Poverty: SCI Vice President Ruth Holton-Hodson speaks at the UN CSW68 event hosted by ICUUW
- USA: LISD Tech Center students, Tecumseh Rotary Club partner on water pasteurization project (making WAPIS) - Daily Telegram
- France: (EVENT) 6 April through 20 July 2024 (various locations in France): The French organization Inti is offering solar oven construction workshops in a number of communities this spring and summer
- USA: Gene Bethke gives Luther Kreuger a tour of the Solar Oven Partners production facility in South Dakota
- Design: Jim La Joie discusses the features of the All Season Solar Cooker in this video
- Kenya: Kithuia Integrated Solar Cookers demonstrate cooking techniques at the primary school games, attended by over 1,000 people in Kithuia Village, Kenya
- Tanzania: EG Solar update of their projects in Tanzania from 2020 through 2023
- Advocacy: Watch on-demand, Solar Cookers International's CSW68 Virtual Parallel Event - Empowering women and girls through solar cooking
- India: From sun to plate: India yet to embrace solar cooking benefits - Mongabay
- Zambia: Empowering Zambian Communities with Solar Cookers (PV) - LABOPEN
- United Kingdom: Luther Krueger interviews Stewart MacLachian from SLiCK
- Design: Experimental Analysis of Solar Parabolic Trough Collector for Novel Solar Cooking System
- Promotion: Solar Cookers International recognized in Solar Today for article on the value of solar cooking
- Afghanistan: After the October 2023 earthquake, they are rebuilding in Herat with with transitional housing, community-cooked meals, and solar cookers from the UNDP
- France: The opening date for the Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France is 11 June 2024
- Nepal: Little Stars e.V. teams with Foundation for Sustainable Technologies to provide parabolic solar cookers, briquette presses, and heat-retention baskets to 10 families in Nepal
- India: The men cooked and served a solar lunch for the women to celebrate International Women Day March 8, 2024 at the Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development
- Parabolic cooking: Baking and preserving with the parabolic solar cooker - Imma Seifert
- International Women's Day: A message of appreciation from a founder of Lytefire
- Kenya: Farmers with a Vision continue a successful production run of Funnel solar panel cookers
- South Africa: The African Solar Caravan introduces a hybrid solar oven with charcoal back-up, designed for community kitchens and small organizations serving meals
- Solar Potluck: (EVENT) Saturday, 27 April 2024: 39th Annual Solar Potluck at Catalina State Park in Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Design: Mark Shook describes the features of the new Villager Sun Oven to Luther Kreuger
- Online: (EVENT) United Nations NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Forum addresses the potential for solar power to empower women, while alleviating climate change, 12 March 2024, Session One
- India: Over 70% of rural households use firewood for cooking in Nagaland - The Morung Express
February 2024
- Mexico: Cocineros Solares invited Bank de Alimentos Querétaros members to join them for a solar cooked meal to celebrate the bank's food donation program
- Research: Solar Cookers International Performance Evaluation Process published by the scientific organization ELSEVIER
- Online: (EVENT) United Nations NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Forum addresses solar cooking's potential to empower women while alleviating climate change, 14 March 2024, Session Two
- Kenya: COMPE is a new organization promoting sustainable cooking and farming techniques to community members in Kisumu
- Haiti: The Donne Orphanage receives additional solar panel cookers donated by Tom Hallquist
- Italy: Matteo Muccioli conducts a solar cooker construction workshop at the Flaminio Balestra
- Research: Experimental characterization of a foldable solar cooker with a trapezoidal cooking chamber and adjustable reflectors - Tariku Negash Demissie a, Sebastiano Tomassetti a, Claudia Paciarotti a, Matteo Muccioli b, Giovanni Di Nicola a c, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo d e - ScienceDirect
- United Kingdom: Luther Krueger video interviews Dave Oxford and friends about their solar cooking experiences
- (EVENT) France: 13-14 April 2024: Solar cooking gathering in Sorède, at the site of the historical solar furnace. Workshop on Saturday led by Celestino Ruivo
- Kenya: Preparing mandazi in a parabolic solar cooker at the Asulma Centre in Nairobi
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