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News
January 2024
Eliesheriff Joseph organizes a solar cooking demonstration and meal for 565 people in Haiti |
Sharon Clausson demonstrates the assembly of the Copenhagen solar cooker as part of the Global Makers series |
Stan Wells, the prolific solar tracking inventor, demonstrates his latest dual axis tracker for the SUNplicity parabolic cooker |
Foundation for Sustainable Technologies student training at Everest English School, Bhaktapur, India |
December 2023
Scheffler Community Kitchen solar cookers were installed high in the Himalayan Mountains for the two-month festival Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra 2023 |
Nahda Makers Organization partners with Solar Cookers International to provide the Yemenis government with solar cooking solutions to benefit families living along the arid west coast of Yemen |
Solar Cookers International Program and Science Director, Alan Bigelow, Ph.D, speaks at the ‘Care, Share, Inspire - Climate Wisdom from COP28' panel discussion |
The NJUBA Children Relief 2022-2023 solar cooking introductory project took place within the Mpigi and Zombo districts of Uganda |
November 2023
Usually the interviewer, Luther Krueger is audio-interviewed by Michael Bonke at CONSOLFOOD 2023 this past July in Spain |
Solar Cookers International receives the Patron of the Planet award at this year’s NYC Green School Conference |
Janak McGilligan addresses the Solar Energy Conference 2023, in New Delhi, India |
Faustine Odaba 'Solar Mama' celebrates her birthday with friends and demonstrates her fireless cooker |
October 2023
Convection solar box oven for group and production baking |
IIT Bhubaneswar organizes ‘Suryakumbh’ workshop to educate children on solar energy and sustainability in Odisha, India |
Computer science students are introduced to solar cooking at the Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development in Madhya Pradesh, India |
Solar Education founders, Mary Buchenic and Jennifer Gasser, explain how solar cooking provides an excellent platform for STEM education |
The SunPower Co-op, located in Tétouan, Morocco, is empowering local women through solar cooking and solar food processing |
Solar cooking as a higher education gateway towards global engagement |
September 2023
Eliesheriff Joseph organizes a large solar cooking training and gathering for members of the Association des Paysans pour de Dévelopement de Couime in Haiti |
Solar Cooker Ambassador Program in Oaxaca, Mexico, 5-year evaluation - Solar Household Energy |
Sunrise CSP's evolution from small dish to Big Dish for Cooking and Food Processing - Deepak Ghadia |
Camily Wedende of Sun Cookers International provides a solar cooking demonstration to Kenyan locals in West Pokot County |
Microbrasserie Hélie is a new solar microbrewery in Dampierre-les-Bois, France |
August 2023
Close to seventy people participate at the solar cooking celebration held at Lavoura da Bouça in Portugal |
Empowering communities with solar cookstoves - 2050 Paris |
The Table-Type Solar Cooker, designed by Hideo Oguri, incorporates a dual-axis tracking system for its parabolic reflector |
Dave Oxford makes the annual SLiCK trip to the Green Gathering festival in Wales, to show and talk solar cooking for four days |
July 2023
Solar Cookers International and Ecomandate updates at the Kakuma Refugee Camp |
Deepak Gadhia speaks with Luther Krueger about his solar cooking life |
Watch all the presentations from CONSOLFOOD 2023 conference on-demand |
UN Solar Cookers International Side Event 2023 video: Meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals with Solar Cooking |
Farmers with a Vision are constructing solar cookers and heat-retention baskets in Kenya |
A day of solar cooking with Eliesheriff Joseph and Tig at the Ravine Labour children's center, about an hour from Hinche in Haiti |
June 2023
Canadian company, SolarSteam, has designed a solar thermal steam production system to work in cold climates |
3rd Annual Worldwide Solar Cooking Awareness Week: 23-30 June 2023 (Northern Hemisphere) |
An on-board meal of chicken wings solar cooked while sailing |
Construction begins on the permanent Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France |
Jakub Grygier has designed a parabolic style solar cooker with separate mirrored strips laced together to form the adjustable reflector |
May 2023
Not with LPG, but with solar-powered cooking, India can achieve net zero |
The Kimono Solar Cooker, designed by Matteo Muccioli, is used for an introductory project in Ethiopia |
See detailed maps showing solar insolation in areas around the globe |
Partners with Sun, headquartered in Lebanon, design and manage commercial solar thermal systems for the food and beverage industry |
Harvesting the sun: Afghan man builds parabolic solar cookers by hand at his shop in Kabul |
April 2023
Lebanon bakery uses a roof-mounted solar cooking array to save money on back-up generator fuel, as local utilities provide only one hour per day of electricity |
See the complete list of on-demand CONSOLFOOD webinars |
Italian enthusiast Matteo Magnani releases a design for the SoLAAR Flower solar box cooker |
The Muni Seva Ashram builds the world's largest solar thermal concentrator to cook 2,000 meals a day |
March 2023
100 Suns helps Sudanese indigenous communities roll out 4,000 solar stoves for use there |
"Empowering Women and Girls Through Solar Cooking" - Solar Cookers International hosts webinar to highlight International Women's Day |
Solar cooking demonstration at local orphanage and school in Hinche, Haiti, led by educator and school principal Aline Innocent |
Sudan NGO Solar Foods provides farmers with a way to extend the profitability of their harvests with solar food processing |
February 2023
SCI and other solar cooking advocates to speak during the UN Commission on the Status of Women free webinar 8 March 2023 |
Solar Fire provides training and sustainable solar cooking employment in African and European communities |
Tireless solar cooking advocate Elie Joseph chosen as Island Innovation Ambassador representing Haiti |
Matteo Muccioli presents a demonstration/construction workshop of his Kimono Solar Cooker at the Planetarium of Ravenna in Italy |
Elie Joseph demonstrates SunDome Solar Cookers to an enthusiastic group at orphanage in Hinche, Haiti |
A multi-day solar cooker construction and use workshop takes place in Eldoret Kenya |
Long-time solar cooking advocate, Crosby Menzies, restarts the Solar Caravan, traveling to visit the Rastas in South Africa |
January 2023
1000 children gather at SuryaKumbh 2023 in Boisar, India, learning to assemble a solar cooker and prepare a meal for themselves |
The Solar Connect Association reports encouraging observed results for the conical solar cookers they sell in Mbarara, Uganda |
Ivan Yaholnitsky has combined aspects of evacuated tube cookers with trough reflector cookers |
Janak Palta McGilligan describes her zero-waste and zero-electricity lifestyle |
Luther Krueger discovers video documentation of the 1st Solar Cookers International Conference, held in Stockton, California, USA in 1992 |
Events
New content
January 2024
- Kenya: Haines solar cookers to be constructed and distributed at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
- Education: Ivan Yaholnitsky assembles an evacuated tube box oven as part of the Global Makers series
- Haiti: Eliesheriff Joseph organizes a solar cooking demonstration and meal for 565 people in Hinche
- Education: Sharon Clausson demonstrates the assembly of the Copenhagen solar cooker as part of the Global Makers series
- India: Successful Launch of ‘Suryotsava: Nutan Aarambh’ Pilot Project Marks a Milestone in Clean & Sustainable Cooking in India - Solarquarter
- CONSOLFOOD webinars: A number of past CONSOLFOOD webinars are now available
- France: NeoLoco Solar Bakery, adapting a business to solar energy, 9th Webinar CONSOLFOOD - Arnaud Crétot
- Scheffler community kitchen: A video has resurfaced profiling the Scheffler array solar cooking system installed at the Shirdi temple in India
- Book: Cooking with Cardboard, by Jed Wubben, describes ways to inexpensively create a solar cooker with recycled materials
- Wall oven: Luther Krueger interviews the 'Frugal Green Girl' about her experiences installing a simple window solar cooker
- Solar tracking: Stan Wells demonstrates his latest dual axis parabolic solar cooker tracker
- Solar cooking history: The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development in India and Mexico, 1878–1966 - Elizabeth Chatterjee
- Solar cooking advocate: Luther Krueger interviews Michael Bonke, the oral solar cooking historian, at CONSOLFOOD2023 in Spain, July 2023
December 2023
- Facebook group: The Solar Panel Cooking Club
- COP28 UAE: SCI Executive Director Caitlyn Hughes and SCI Strategic Partnerships Manager Keith Wingeard discuss the importance of solar cooking and its impact on mitigating climate change
- COP28 UAE: Keith Wingeard, SCI's strategic partnership associate, interviews Fred Onduri, the Vice Chair of the CTCN Advisory Board. Mr. Onduri explains the role of the CTCN, and talks about new opportunities he sees for developing countries in Africa to adopt solar cooking
- COP28 UAE: Special Message from SCI Executive Director Caitlyn Hughes from COP28
- Nepal: FoST founder, Sanu Kaji Shrestha, leads a student solar energy workshop in Bhaktapur
- India: (EVENT) 29 February & 1 March 2024 (Vatsalya Campus, Jaipur, India): International Workshop on Pucca solar cooker with Prof. Celestino Ruivo
- India: (EVENT) 3 March 2024 (Muni SEVA ASHRAM-GORAJ, Vadodara, India) 8:30 - 17:20: Symposium on Solar Food Thermal Processing with a number of solar food processing experts
- Hybrid solar cooking: Experimental and numerical investigation of
a hybrid solar thermal-electric powered cooking oven - ELSEVIER
- Peru: Fresh pink trout from Lake Titicaca is baked in an ULOG style solar box oven on the Capachica Peninsula in Puna by Tara Edna Miller
- India: Scheffler Community Kitchen solar cookers were installed high in the Himalayan Mountains for the two-month festival Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra 2023
- Yemen: Solar Cookers International, alongside the Nahda Makers Organization, worked with the Yemenis government to find solar cooking solutions to benefit families living along the arid west coast of Yemen
- Afghanistan: Resourceful individuals create businesses to fabricate parabolic solar cookers, providing a way to generate income and train local youth
- COP28 UAE: Solar Cookers International Program and Science Director, Alan Bigelow,Ph.D, speaks at the ‘Care, Share, Inspire - Climate Wisdom from COP28' panel discussion
- COP28 UAE: Solar Cookers International shared a booth with the International Solar Energy Society, allowing visitors to get a first hand look at a PEP tested solar cooker and learn how these devices are helping those most affected by climate change
- Updated books: Combining Climate Protection and Poverty Reduction - Opportunities Through Open Source Appropriate Technologies (English, German) - Dieter Seifert, Manolo Vilchez
- USA: David Chalker, founder of the Sun BD Corporation, has announced the company will be closing operations as of 31 December 2023
- Design: The NJUBA Solar Stove is a thoughtfully constructed solar box oven mounted on a wheeled base for easy transporting
- Uganda: The NJUBA Children Relief 2022-2023 solar cooking introductory project took place within the Mpigi and Zombo districts
November 2023
- Lesotho: Global Maker Ivan Yaholnitsky, of the Bethel Business and Community Development Centre, shows the construction of their evacuated tube/box oven combination
- Solar tracking: Not a technologically new approach, but a simple, effective single-axis PV tracking design from Andy Lenss
- India: The Earthshot Prize in the 'Build a Waste-Free World' category goes to S4S Technologies for their work in solar food processing, aimed at saving more of the agricultural crops grown at small farms
- Zimbabwe: ZDDT Community Garden Helping Children in The Classroom - Tafadzwa Masviba
- Video playlist: Assembled by Luther Krueger, videos made by solar cooking enthusiasts around the world. "curated" as much as possible, to show best practices, unique designs, and committed promoters
- USA: Solar Today, published by the American Solar Energy Society, is seeking op-ed articles on the theme “clean energy jobs in the United States.” The pitch due date is 12/12/23. See Request for proposals
- Spain: Usually the interviewer, Luther Krueger is audio interviewed by Michael Bonke at CONSOLFOOD 2023 this past July
- USA: Solar Cookers International receives the Patron of the Planet award at this year’s NYC Green School Conference
- Environmental award: The application cycle is now open for the 2024 Keeling Curve Prize, the flagship program of the Global Warming Mitigation Project
- India: Janak McGilligan addresses the Solar Energy Conference 2023, in New Delhi, India
- Design: Craig Bergland has fashioned a 'tin hat' reflector for small cooking jobs
- Kenya: Faustine Odaba 'Solar Mama' celebrates her birthday with friends, and demonstrates her fireless cooker
October 2023
- Mexico: Solar cooking promoter, Lorena Harp, delivers solar cookers to women from San Marcos Tlapazola, interested in improving their living conditions and the environment
- Kenya: A celebration at the completion of a successful integrated solar cooking workshop in the Kwale District, led by the engineer Penina Nzioka
- Mauritius: Vikram Dookna, at the Brahma Kumaris Global Peace House in Khoyratty, successfully integrates solar cooking into the daily routine at the center
- Zambia: Rosa Solar Stoves have designed their own fan-driven updraft solar food dryer
- Zimbabwe: The solar array, 100 Suns, is being planned for use in the first solar barbecue restaurant in the country
- Mexico: (EVENT) Friday, 3 November 2023, 8 am (Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico): 1st Solar Cooking and Drying Meeting, Cuernavaca 2023. Attendance is free, but registration is required
- USA: First-year engineering students at the University of Arizona try their hand at solar cooking
- Institutional cooking: Convection solar oven for group and production baking
- India: IIT Bhubaneswar organizes ‘Suryakumbh’ workshop to educate children on solar energy and sustainability in Odisha
- Heat storage: Ajay Chandak has received Patent #458401 for 'Composite Structure for Heat Storage' to enable indoor cooking
- CONSOLFOOD 2023: Video of CONSOLFOOD 2023 by Hugo Nascimento captures the fellowship of the hundreds of solar cooks who attended
- Austria: Planting the seeds of solar cooking and sustainability in schools
- India: Computer science students are introduced to solar cooking at the Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development in Madhya Pradesh
- Education: Solar Education founders, Mary Buchenic and Jennifer Gasser, explain how solar cooking provides an excellent platform for STEM education
- Morocco: The SunPower Co-op, located in Tétouan, is empowering local women through solar cooking and solar food processing
- Design: The designer and manufacturer of the Copenhagen Solar Cooker, Sharon Clausson, has developed a simple snap system for adjusting the reflectors for best positioning at different times of the day
- Education: Solar cooking as a higher education gateway towards global engagement, multi-disciplinary collaborators discuss approaches to better understand solar cooking introduction
- Barbados: (EVENT) 4-6 June 2024, (Bridgetown Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum, co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados
September 2023
- Uganda: PV-powered ECOCA pilot stove program at the Bidibidi Refugee Camp
- Report: Solar Cooker SK12 - Experience and Visions - Dieter Seifert
- Portugal: Promoting solar cooking tourism in Portugal
- Solar drying: Technical-Economical Analysis of the Mexican Thermosolar Plant Drying of Different Agricultural Products
- Haiti: Eliesheriff Joseph organizes a large solar cooking training and gathering for members of the Association des Paysans pour de Dévelopement de Couime in Haiti
- Solar drying: Controlled experimentation with mixing outside air in a solar dryer compared to a solar dryer using a closed loop of air
- Mexico: Solar Cooker Ambassador Program in Oaxaca, Mexico, 5-year evaluation - Solar Household Energy
- India: General social attitude towards solar thermal food processing in northern India - CONSOLFOOD2023
- Brazil: Comparing solar with other commercial cooking techniques
- Solar food processing: Sunrise CSP's evolution from small dish to Big Dish for Cooking and Food Processing - Deepak Ghadia
- Solar Drying: Thermofuilds' issues of modeling a flat plate solar heating collector (SHAC) with sensible thermal energy storage (TES) for drying in an energy-vulnerable environment
- Manufacturer: USA Sun BD Corporation founder, Dave Chalker, video interviewed about his approach to solar hybrid cooker design
- Solar Drying: Design and construction of a solar dryer with hybridization of solar technologies for drying fish
- Nigeria: 2023 Summit: Kano ACReSAL Project Coordinator Joins Other Experts At Africa Climate Summit In Nairobi in building solar cooking resilience - Solace Base
- Kenya: Camily Wedende of Sun Cookers International provided a solar cooking demonstration to locals in West Pokot County
- France: Microbrasserie Hélie is a new microbrewery located in Dampierre-les-Bois with a Lytefire solar array
August 2023
- Design: The Southwest Stainless Large Solar Cooker is manufactured in Arizona, USA
- CONSOLFOOD 2023: Link to numerous Facebook CONSOLFOOD 2023 photos
- Solar Drying: Thermal evaluation of a mixed tunnel-type solar dehydrator under different operating conditions - CONSOLFOOD2023
- Mexico: Solar cooking in the rural areas of Mexico - CONSOLFOOD 2023
- Design: Developing a linear Fresnel and evacuated tube solar cooker
- Design: What reflector shape is most efficient for the Funnel cooker?
- Testing: Standardized power values of some tested solar cookers following the linear regression of ASAE S580.1. Standard protocol and the linear regression associated with the Hottel-Whillier-Bliss formulation
- Cooking pots: Are shiny stainless steel pots actually suitable for solar cooking?
- Portugal: Close to 70 people participated at the solar cooking celebration held at Lavoura da Bouça
- Haiti: Eliesheriff Joseph organized and led a solar cooker construction workshop on building the large Copenhagen Solar Cooker Beast at a rural community orphanage
- Mexico: Juana María Hernández Jarquín, of Red Mujeres en Energía Renovable y Eficiencia Energética, conducted a demonstration for children at a summer science school in Mexico
- Heat storage: Ashmore Mawire et al. from South Africa present the concept of using a internally finned wall oil storage container to increase heat transfer to the cooking vessel
- Heat storage: An extensive review of latent and sensible methods of heat storage presented at CONSOLFOOD 2023 by Ole Jorgen Nydal from Norway
- United Kingdom: Stewart Maclachlan, of SLiCK, repurposes fluorescent light reflectors for his evacuated tube cooker
- PV solar cooking: Jean Boubour's video describing PV solar cooking without batteries and controllers at CONSOLFOOD 2023
- Luther Krueger: Luther shares his perspective on the state of solar cooking shared communication and collaboration
- 2050 Paris: Empowering communities with solar cookstoves - 2050 Paris
- Design: The Table-Type Solar Cooker, designed by Hideo Oguri, incorporates a dual-axis tracking system for its parabolic reflector
- United Kingdom: Dave Oxford makes the annual SLiCK trip to the Green Gathering festival in Wales, to show and talk solar cooking for four days
- Request for proposal: Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments (ScienceDirect) is requesting guest-author submissions for a special issue devoted to innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems
- China: Qingdao Huama Metal Manufacturing Co. Ltd., manufactures solar cooking appliances in China
- Portugal: (EVENT) Thursday, 17 August 2023, starting at 9am, (Corgo 4890-182 Celorico de Basto, Portugal) Solar cooking celebration at Lavoura da Bouca
- Technology: Performance evaluation research of Scheffler reflectors at CONSOLFOOD 2023
- Portugal: Hannah Larndorfer explains how solar cookers feed 30-50 people a day at the Tamera Community
July 2023
- Zambia: Rosa Solar Stoves are experimenting with a hybrid solar and ethanol cook top
- India: The SunVenture is a popular solar box oven sold primarily in India
- Kenya: Solar Cookers International and Ecomandate updates at the Kakuma refugee camp
- India: Deepak Gadhia speaks with Luther Krueger about his solar cooking life
- Conference: CONSOLFOOD 2023 video presentations
- United Nations: UN Solar Cookers International Side Event 2023 video: Meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals with Solar Cooking
- Italy: Cucinare con il Sole
- United Kingdom: U.K. based Stewart MacLachlan provides a condensed outline of solar cooking basics: Solar Cooking - Doing Our Bit
- Kenya: Farmers with a Vision are constructing solar cookers and heat-retention baskets
- Book: Combining Climate Protection and Poverty Reduction - Opportunities through Open Source Appropriate Technologies (English, German) - Dieter Seifert, Manolo Vilchez
- France: (EVENT) Sunday, 13 August 2023: (Lodève (34) France), Inti is sponsoring a solar cooker construction and use workshop
- (EVENT) Webinar: Thursday, 13 July 2023, 7pm PDT: Staying Cool This Summer: Part Two: Cooking with a Sun Oven - Eco-author and editor Lorraine Anderson explains the advantages of cooking outside (Free event)
- India: The daily solar-prepared meal is served at the Shirdi Sai Baba temple for 30,000 pilgrims
- Afghanistan: Ghulam Abbas from Kabul demonstrates his parabolic solar cooker manufacturing operation in video
- Media attention: Tips for Taking Your Camper, RV or Bus Off-Grid includes a solar cooking option - Intelligent Living
- Haiti: A day of solar cooking with Eliesheriff Joseph and Tig at the Ravine Labour children's center, about an hour from Hinche in Haiti
- Australia: Bush Edge homesteading demonstrates the Suntaste solar cooker's ability with cooking ribs
- Haiti: Eliesheriff Joseph is recognized for his leadership, promoting solar cooking at Hinche orphanages
- Sudan: During the recent hostilities in Sudan, the Solar Foods factory was tragically looted and burned to the ground
June 2023
- USA: The U.S. Senate has introduce the Clean Cooking Support Act to help people in low and middle-income countries gain access to cleaner-burning fuels and stoves for cooking
- USA: Winston Cone Optics based in Merced, CA, USA, uses solar thermal to reduce groundwater depletion
- Cookbook: Castelfranco Veneto, a solar cooking community in northern Italy has created a community-based solar cookbook. Written in Italian and companian English. Download a free copy of RICETTARIO Solare 2023
- Canada: Canadian company, SolarSteam, has designed a solar thermal steam production system to work in cold climates
- Italy: Matteo Muccioli demonstrates his latest Kimono Solar Cooker setup, configured to make coffee
- Haiti: Elie Joseph visits another orphanage to solar cook, and is met with an appreciative audience
- (EVENT) 3rd Annual Worldwide Solar Cooking Awareness Week: 23-30 June 2023: David Chalker of Sun BD Corporation reminds us to create awareness for solar cooking during this recognized period (Northern Hemisphere)
- At sea: An on-board meal of chicken wings solar cooked while sailing
- France: Construction begins on the permanent Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France
- Interview: Video of the recent interview of Prof. BK Chakravarthy discussing the SOLA Solar Cooker with Luther Krueger
- Interview: Lorraine Anderson, noted solar cooking author, is interviewed. The Cooking with Sunshine article begins on page 14 - Desert Report
- Awards program: The Women & Gender Constituency (WGC) and WECF are calling for applications to the 2023 Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards, conducted with the support of the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), the French Development Agency (AFD), the Scottish Government, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). Deadline for submissions is Sunday, 30 July 2023
- Design: The SOLA Solar Cooker 1 is designed as a window-mounted or freestanding solar cooker
- Interview: (ONLINE EVENT) Zoom Forum: Earth-Wide Solar Cooking Forum Online Saturday 10 June 2023, 10am Central Daylight Time (CDT): Cooking with the new window-mounted, SOLA Solar Cooker 1. Prof. BK Chakravarthy has a conversation with Luther Krueger
- Brazil: Professor Elmo Dutra participates at ENSUS 2023 to represent the solar cooking sector
- Kenya: (ONLINE EVENT) Saturday, 3 June 2023 PDT-Facebook live: Solar Cooking & Organic Agriculture at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. Information to join the presentation...
- Design: Jakub Grygier has designed a parabolic style solar cooker, created with separate mirrored strips laced together to form the reflector
May 2023
- India: Not with LPG, but with solar-powered cooking, India can achieve net zero! - Ground Report
- Ethiopia: The Kimono Solar Cooker, designed by Matteo Muccioli, is used for an introductory project in Ethiopia
- Design: Davide Milani has added the Elisa solar oven to his collection of solar cookers
- France: (EVENT) Saturday, 10 June 2023, 10am to 4:30pm (Guipel): Solar box cooker construction workshop - To be held at Salle du Presbytère 35440, and sponsored by Inti
- Solar insolation: See detailed maps showing solar gain in areas around the globe
- France: (EVENT) Sunday, 20 August 2023: FOUR SOLAIRE Solar cooker demonstration in Sorède
- Interview: (ONLINE EVENT) Zoom Forum: Earth-Wide Solar Cooking Forum Online Saturday 20 May 2023, 10am Central time USA (CST): Marco Bernardo, environmentalist and solar cooker maker, has a conversation with Luther Krueger
- Design: Partners with Sun, headquartered in Lebanon, design and manage commercial solar thermal systems for the food and beverage industry
- Tanzania: (EVENT) 9-11 August 2023 (Arusha, Tanzania): 1st ECHO East Africa Symposium on Appropriate Technology Innovations and Renewable Energy
- Afghanistan: Harvesting the sun: Afghan man builds parabolic solar stoves by hand - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
- Cyprus: (EVENT) Saturday, 24 June 2023, 9:30 EEST - 12:30 EEST (Paphos, Cyprus): Vegan solar cooking gathering - Andreas Fasoulides of Re-newcy, has organized an event featuring a demonstration of vegan solar cooking with the Diamond Solar Cooker
- USA: Solar cooking featured during Earth Day celebration at the 5th Annual Mount Vernon Environment Expo 2023 in Fairfax County, Virginia
- Publication: Spring 2023 issue of Carbon Mechanisms Review - German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- Design: The capable Haines 2.0 panel cooker receives recognition and recommendations
- Cloud cover: Global cloud cover composite image for 2018
- Lebanon: (EVENT) 28 August-2 September 2023: International Climate Justice Camp - Call for applications, which must be submitted by 15 May 2023
- Haiti: Elie Joseph mentions the solar ovens at Center Hope orphanage serve double duty
April 2023
- Individual: Luther Krueger relates his solar cooking background
- Solar bakery: The Al-Wissam solar bakery located in Remhala, Lebanon, uses a roof-mounted solar trough array to heat oil, sending it to the convection ovens in the kitchen for baking
- Safety: Repurposing a satellite dish as a solar cooker
- Cook pots: The classic 3 qt. Granite Ware cook pot is available on Amazon again
- Business development: Here's What Happened to the Solar-Powered Grill From 'Shark Tank' That Was Going to Rival Elon Musk - Green Matters
- Webinars: See the complete list of past on-demand CONSOLFOOD webinars
- Design: Clear or black cook pot top for your solar panel cooker?
- Design: ULOG Solar Box Cooker construction manual update for tropical areas (in English)
- Kenya: Eldoret National Show: Solar Cooking Report, 1-4 March 2023, - Grace Chepkemei
- Distiller design: Turn any solar panel cooker into a solar distiller - Craig Bergland
- Interview: Seasoned solar cooking author, Lorraine Anderson, is interviewed by Luther Krueger prior to the publication of her new book, Slow Cook Solar
- Interview: California professor Pete Schwarz is interviewed about recent developments in the field of solar cookers powered by a single 100 watt photovoltaic panel
- Design: Video of the Solar Z, the solar kitchen cooking appliance in operation
- Cookbook: Recently released Slow Cook Solar by Lorraine Anderson
- Interview: (ONLINE EVENT) Zoom Forum: Saturday, 15 April 2023 9am CDT, and Sunday April 16 19:00pm CDT. Tune in for another Earth-Wide Online Solar Cooking Forum - Luther Krueger will be talking with solar cooking author Lorraine Anderson
- Design: The SoLAAR Flower is a solar box cooker, designed and built by Matteo Magnani living in Italy
- Safety: PET is a common plastic used for single-use liquid bottles, becoming toxic when exposed to high heat
- Design: Milind Kulkarni is interviewed by Luther Krueger about the process of developing the Sundish balcony solar cooker requiring no sun tracking adjustments
- Heat retention: The Haines 2.0 solar panel cooker can have a hybrid use as a heat retention basket
- Individual: "The Sun Queen" Spotlights Solar Energy Pioneer and MIT Researcher Mária Telkes - ARCHITECT
- Kenya: The Tonembee Association conducts an integrated cooking method demonstration at Kithuia Village in Kenya
- India: The Muni Seva Ashram in Vadodara, India, builds the world's largest solar thermal concentrator to be used for cooking 2,000 meals a day
- Individual: Sara Rosen joins Solar Cookers International as Program and Operations Manager
- Individual: (ONLINE EVENT) 4 April 2023 (9pm EDT): PBS American Experience - PBS presents a retrospective on the life of Mária Telkes, noted engineer and innovator in the field of solar sustainable design during the 1950s
- Individual: Italian designer, Matteo Muccioli, relates his solar cooking experiences to Corriere Romagna - (English version)
March 2023
- France: (EVENT) 17-18 June 2023 (Lodève, France): Solar cooking at Les Moulinages: Join the community at Lodève for the 5th annual solar gathering. Eco-habitat artisans demonstrate their creativity with various materials. Solar cooker exhibitions, conferences, and solar food tasting.
- Document: Chalmers Master's Thesis on Kenya Solar Cooking - Alaa Abdul Sater & Johanna Tolly
- Kenya: Solar Cookers International, in partnership with the Ecomandate Foundation, provides solar cookers and ongoing support at the Kakuma refugee camp
- Heat storage: Heat-Transfer Mechanisms in a Solar Cooking Pot with Thermal Energy Storage, Maarten Vanierschot and Ashmore Mawire - energies
- Haiti: Elie Joseph continues his efforts with Solar Ovens for Orphanages. He organized a workshop teaching at the rural Donne Orphanage, and delivered nine new solar cookers provided by Tom Hallquist
- Nepal: Maarten Olthof, chairman of the Vajra Foundation Holland, is video interviewed by Luther Krueger about his history promoting solar cooking in Nepal
- Design: Solar Coffee Roaster designed by Craig Bergland
- (ONLINE EVENT) Zoom Forum: Tune in Saturday, 25 March 2023 9am CST (GMT-5) for the newly-launchedEarth-Wide Online Solar Cooking Forum. In this second episode, Luther Krueger will be talking with Maarten Olthof, chairman of the Vajra Foundation Holland.
- Design: The PRISMA hybrid solar food dryer is commercially available from Italy
- Design: Pocket Solar Cooker
- Interview: Tom Sponheim, solar cooking advocate and founder of the SCI Solar Cooking Wiki, is video interviewed by Luther Krueger of the Big Blue Sun solar cooking museum
- Sudan: 100 Suns begins production of 4,000 solar stoves in Sudan with support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and manufactured wholly by indigenous communities
- International Women's Day: "Empowering Women and Girls Through Solar Cooking" - Solar Cookers International hosts a webinar highlighting how solar cooking impacts women and girls around the world
- Volunteering: Former US diplomat, Patricia McArdle, speaks to the American Foreign Service Association about volunteering to promote solar cooking
- USA: EnergyTeachers.org is a charitable network for educators interested in energy production and use
- Haiti: Elie Joseph shares some photos of a recent solar cooking demonstration at a local Hinche orphanage school led by Aline Innocent
- Haiti: Tom Hallquist continues to work with Elie Joseph distributing solar cookers to additional orphanages
- Kenya: Farmers with a Vision organize an Integrated Cooking demonstration to recognize International Women's Day
- Sudan: Solar Foods has actively been building their solar food processing company to help local farmers better utilize their harvests
- Glazing: A revisit to an informative video by Dave Oxford of SLiCK explaining the benefits of glass as a heat trap for your solar cooker
February 2023
- (EVENT) Webinar: Monday, 3 April 2023 14:45 - 17:00 (Lisbon time, GMT) 6:45 am -9 am (PST): 9th CONSOLFOOD Webinar: Solar Baking with Arnaud Crétot, founder of NeoLoco solar bakery in Normandy, France (English)
- Cooker design: Alain Bivas, SUNplicity founder, has announced they have designed a larger version of their SUNplicity Solar Cooker, which will be better suited to preparing meals for families
- (EVENT) Webinar: Monday, 8 March 2023 9am – 10:30am (PST) 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (EST) 17:00 – 18:30 (UTC): Solar Cookers International representatives along with other solar cooking advocates will speak at the United Nations NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) free webinar
- Individual: Rosemary Olive Mbone Enie is assuming the leadership role of AfriShiners in March 2023, following the retirement of Bernhard Müller
- Finland: Solar Fire operates under the umbrella of GoSol.org, providing training and sustainable solar cooking employment in rural African communities
- United Kingdom: (EVENT) 3-6 August 2023 (Chepstow, Wales): Green Gathering Festival 2023 takes place in Piercefield Park, NP16 6BE outside of Chepstow. Dave Oxford from SLiCK will be there representing the solar cooking community
- USA: (EVENT) Saturday, 1 April 2023 (Tucson, Arizona): Citizens for Solar 38th Annual Potluck will be happening once again at Catalina State Park
- Spain: (EVENT) 12-14 July 2023 CONSOLFOOD(Galicia, A Coruña, Spain): As result of the call for submission of abstracts, forty-two proposals have been selected for presentation
- Haiti: Tireless solar cooking advocate, Elie Joseph, chosen Island Innovation Ambassador representing Haiti
- Italy: Matteo Muccioli presents a demonstration/construction workshop of his Kimono Solar Cooker at the Planetarium of Ravenna in Italy
- Algeria: A research team at Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables (CDER) develop a solar trough wall hybrid cooker
- Haiti: Elie Joseph leads a solar cooking demonstration to an enthusiastic group at the local orphanage in Hinche, Haiti with Sundome Solar Cookers provided by Solar Oven Reflectors
- USA: Solar cooking advocate, Jackie Harsha, is video-interviewed by Luther Krueger from her home in Mesa, Arizona
- Kenya: Kenyan solar parabolic stove may cut cancer risks caused by burning wood - africanews
- Tracking: Luther Krueger interviews Al Nichols about his approach to simplify the popular PV imbalance cooker tracking system
- Kenya: A multi-day solar cooker construction and use workshop takes place in Eldoret Kenya through the efforts of supporting individuals, non-profit organizations, and manufacturers
- South Africa: Long-time solar cooking advocate, Crosby Menzies, restarts the Solar Caravan, traveling to visit the Rastas in South Africa
January 2023
- Italy: Matteo Muccioli has his Kimono Solar Cooker tested alongside three other solar panel cookers in a 'time to boil water' comparison
- Ethopia: Matteo Muccioli reports his Kimono Solar Cooker is being used to introduce solar cooking to the Amhara region of Ethiopia
- Technology: Low-tech Lab video includes an interview with Dr. Alan Bigelow about solar cooking technology, and then Low-tech Lab members explain how to construct a well-insulated solar box cooker
- India: Sonam Wangchuk promotes carbon-neutral approaches for the Ladakh region, which includes solar cooking applications
- Haiti: REPAS-S joins UNDH Hinche to promote solar cookers in Haiti for a sustainable future
- Research: Cellius, a new company with a lo-tech decentralized latent heat storage approach, recently won an Energy Explorer Grant funded by the Gates Foundation, to continue their product development
- India: Celebrating SuryaKumbh joy of solar cooking with 1000 children from the Boisar metro area
- Uganda: Kawesa Mukasa provides observed results for the conical solar cookers they sell at the Solar Connect Association retail location in Mbarara
- India: (EVENT) 30 October-4 November 2023 (New Delhi, India): The ISES Solar World Congress will provide a forum to present work, meet researchers, developers and industry and government representatives
- Design: Ivan Yaholnitsky has combined aspects of evacuated tube cookers with trough reflector cookers
- India: Janak McGilligan describes her zero-waste and zero-electricity lifestyle
- Spain: (EVENT) 20-23 February 2023 (Madrid, Spain): SPIREC 2023 International Renewable Energy Conference - Focus on renewable energy supply chains, integration in end uses, social participation and positive impacts of renewable energy deployment
- USA: The first international solar cooking conference was held in Stockton, California in 1992. Solar cooking advocate, Luther Krueger, has found video footage of the event
- Mali: Togo Tilé is a successful solar cooking appliance manufacturer operating in Togo, Mali, helping to fight deforestation
- Solar pioneer: Bev Blum- founder and grower of Solar Cookers International at home and abroad, is interviewed last June by Luther Krueger. Now deceased, she literally put Solar Cookers International on the map
- Heat-retention cooking: The Economical Cooking Method Italians Favored During WWII
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