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Welcome to the Solar Cookers International Network (SCInet). Learn to solar cook, build your own solar cooker, or research where to buy a cooker. The hundreds of different solar cooker designs all concentrate or accumulate solar energy to cook food and make water safe to drink. SCInet partners worldwide collaborate to improve and spread this technology for the positive impact it can have on human health and environmental degradation.

The California-based nonprofit, Solar Cookers International, sponsors this global network and manages this site, which is the premier destination for solar cooking information. The 1,700+ articles on the site are accessed approximately 250,000 times each month from almost every country.

NGOs and individuals actively promoting solar cooking, as well as designers, researchers, manufacturers, and vendors, are invited to join SCInet. Work with us to increase solar cooking around the world. Thank you to the Agua Fund for providing vital financial support. For more information, contact info@solarcookers.org.

April 2015

GoSun Stove opens Kickstarter for new GoSun Grill - GoSun Stove is currently running a Kickstarter for their new solar cooker, the GoSun Grill. Check out the Kickstarter page here.

Robert Chiron with baked bread — Robert Chiron

Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil announces the sad passing of its founder, Robert Chiron - Read more about professor Chiron's significant contribution to the spread of integrated cooking.

GoSol.org is currently fundraising through their #FreeTheSun crowdfunding campaign. The campaign can be seen at http://www.gosol.org/FreeTheSun.

GoSol.org's_Free_The_Sun_Campaign — GoSol.org's Free The Sun Campaign

Featured presentation from the SCInet Solar Cooking Convention 2014:

McArdle_Factors_that_give_funders_confidence — McArdle Factors that give funders confidence

You can now see all new content as it is added to the site by visiting this page: New content

March 2015

Chennai school 1 — Solar energy concentrator at Ramakrishna Mission’s Students’ Home

Investment brings large-scale solar cooking to Chennai school for orphans and underprivileged boys - Starting in 2013, a partnership between the UNDP, India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and the Global Environment Facility, led to a project to install an ARUN®100 solar concentrator at the Ramakrishna Mission’s Students’ Home. The system provides enough energy to cook 3,000 meals per day and reduces LPG consumption by half, which leads to a savings of US$8,000 per year. Read more...

Solar cooking workshop 3, C.V — "Solar Cooking for a Healthy & Better Life" at the Bhubaneswar Club in Odisha, India March 2015 - *C.V. Raman College*

Women's Day event in India promotes solar cooking - Sanjib Rout, Chairman of the C.V. Raman College of Engineering organized a workshop on "Solar Cooking for a Healthy & Better Life" at the Bhubaneswar Club in Odisha, India to raise awareness of the potential of solar cooking for commercial applications.

Show your solar cooker design to the United Nations Development Program - The UN is now assessing what viable small and institutional-sized solar cookers are available in the marketplace for widespread distribution in emergency situations. Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, 2015. Read more...

Refugee drawing1 — Solar cooker drawings by refugees

Solar cooker drawings by refugee users now available online - View drawings...

Show your solar cooker to the Global Alliance - The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves maintains a catalog of approved stoves, including ten solar cookers and one heat-retention cooking device. See the catalog You can apply to have your solar cooker added. Read more...

New solar cooking organization in India - On January 23, 2015 Solar Cookers India was formed. Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan has graciously offered her services as the Honorary Executive Director of this new organization, which will work in close partnership with Solar Cookers International.

Janak McGilligan — Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan

SCInet member wins national award - Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan won the prestigious national Padmashri award for distinguished achievement in social service on January 26, 2015. The Padma Awards is one of the highest civilian awards given in India. As former Director and Founder of the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women, she pioneered solar parabolic cooking for institutional solar cooking.

Apply for the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards: Solar Cookers International has a unique opportunity to nominate projects from SCInet members for the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. All materials must be in English. Read more...

February 2015

(EVENT) International Solar Energy Society webinar on Solar Food Processing for Income Generation - On March 11, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) will be hosting a webinar on how solar food processing can be used for income generation. "Expert speakers will show examples of how solar food processing can be a profitable business venture. The panelist speakers will present case studies where individuals and companies use solar cooking techniques to earn their living and have made a successful and professional business." Presenters include:
- Rolf Behringer of Solare Zukunft
- Heike Hoedt of Solare Brücke
- Dr. Michael Götz of Cocina Solar México
- Dr. Wolfgang Scheffler of Simply Solar

The webinar will be held from 3:00pm - 4:30pm GMT (7:00am - 8:30am PST/10:00am - 11:30pm EST). More info and registration...

Apply for the SEED Award - The SEED Awards recognize "the most promising, innovative and locally-led start-up social and environmental enterprises in countries with developing and emerging economies. The independent SEED International Jury of experts selects enterprises which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability while contributing to a greener economy." Apply by March 31, 2015. Read more...

SCInet welcomes new members this month:
- Pat Browne, a solar cooking promoter in California, USA
- ATP GreenTech Pvt Ltd, a leading supplier of solar cookers and sustainable living promoter in Delhi, India along with their CEO Charanjit Khurana
- The SELCO Foundation, a sustainable lifestyle foundation in India
- Atul Sagade a solar cooking promoter in Maharashtra, India
- Garden of God Naturestead, promoting solar cooking in Lagos, Nigeria
- Sun Frost, makers of the Sun Frost Cooker-Sterilizer
- Friends of Solar Cooking Arizona, USA, organized by Berta Nelson

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-*'''Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil announces the sad passing of its founder, Robert Chiron''' - [http://www.boliviainti-sudsoleil.org/spip.php?article801 Read more] about professor Chrion's significant contribution to the spread of [[integrated cooking]].
+*'''Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil announces the sad passing of its founder, Robert Chiron''' - [http://www.boliviainti-sudsoleil.org/spip.php?article801 Read more] about professor Chiron's significant contribution to the spread of [[integrated cooking]].
 *'''GoSol.org is currently fundraising through their #FreeTheSun crowdfunding campaign.''' The campaign can be seen at http://www.gosol.org/FreeTheSun.