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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 1,800+ articles on the site are accessed approximately 250,000 times each month from almost every country of the world.
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 webmaster@solarcooking.org.Solar cooking around the world
April 2024
 | Podcaster Nate Hagens is joined by solar oven collector and educator, Luther Krueger, to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking |
March 2024
 | Kithuia Integrated Solar Cookers demonstrate cooking techniques at the primary school games, attended by over 1,000 people in Kithuia Village, Kenya |
 | Watch on-demand, Solar Cookers International's CSW68 Virtual Parallel Event - Empowering women and girls through solar cooking |
 | Solar Cookers International recognized in Solar Today for article on the value of solar cooking |
 | After the October 2023 earthquake, they are rebuilding in Herat, Afghanistan with transitional housing, community-cooked meals, and solar cookers from the UNDP |
 | The opening date for the Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France is 11 June 2024 |
 | Little Stars e.V. teams with Foundation for Sustainable Technologies to provide parabolic solar cookers, briquette presses, and heat-retention baskets to ten families in Nepal |
 | International Women's Day appreciation from a founder of Lytefire |
 | The African Solar Caravan introduces a hybrid solar oven with charcoal back-up, designed for community kitchens and small organizations serving meals |
February 2024
 | Solar Cookers International manuscript "Testing solar cookers for cooking efficiency" published by the scientific organization ELSEVIER |
 | The Donne Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti receives additional solar cookers donated by Tom Hallquist |
 | 13-14 April 2024: Solar cooking workshops in Sorède, France at the site of the historical solar furnace |
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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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