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==September 2012==
 
[[File:Solvatten.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Solvatten]] water pasteurization system]]
 
*'''Swedish and Lutheran organizations sponsor water pasteurization efforts in Kenya''' - The Swedish Church and the aid agency Lutheran World Federation (LWF) are launching [[Solvatten]] in [[Kakuma Refugee Camp]] in [[Kenya]]. The goal of the project is to reduce environmental degradation by enabling people to use alternative sources of energy in the camp and in the host community that surrounds it. 

Supply of fire wood has been a problem in Kakuma region since the camp was set up in 1992 but it has escalated in the past two years, despite that the refugees are not allowed to harvest firewood directly from the bushes. This is attributed to the continuous massive influx of people into the camp leading to the environmental degradation through the harvesting of sticks from the available vegetation for firewood. Firewood has become very expensive and the UNHCR struggles to purchase and supply fuel to the growing population of refugees in the camp. The Solvatten is a solar [[water pasteurization]] device.
 
   
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==August 2012==
 
[[File:Farchana_Refugee_Camp_August_2012.jpg|thumb|191px|Refugee volunteers build solar cookers as part of the [[CORD]] project at the [[Farchana Refugee Camp]].]]
 
*'''Solar cooker project in Chad is in full swing''' - In the [[Farchana Refugee Camp]], a team of ten volunteers, refugees themselves, are putting together 2350 cookers! The cookers help prevent conflict between the Sudanese population in the camps and the local Chadian community, who are both competing for scarce firewood. Women, who traditionally collect wood to cook with, face violence outside the camps. The solar cookers need only the sun to cook food, one thing Chad has in abundance! [http://www.cord.org.uk/the-latest/latest-news/cord-latest/12-in-news-from-chad/562-solar-cooker-assembly.html Read more...]
 
   
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*'''New video shows Vietnam Solar Serve's extensive solar cooking projects''' - A team of three French students came to visit [[Vietnam Solar Serve]]'s center. They had organized Global Universities Social Trip (GUST), a project that aims to raise students' awareness of social entrepreneurship in Asia. For six months they met many social entrepreneurs throughout Asia who worked on problems such as energy, communication, waste, [[water]], and housing. They created videos that presented the entrepreneurs' projects, the social issues they wanted to solve, and the challenges they had to overcome. Click the image on the right to see a video that they made on their visit to our Solar Serve Center in Danang. For more information on the Gust Project, visit the: http://www.gustproject.com or visit their [http://www.vimeo.com/gustproject Vimeo Channel].
 
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*'''Dissertation posted:''' [[Media:Identifying_the_Barriers_to_the_Deployment_of_Solar_Cookers_in_the_Energy-Poor_Households_of_Sub-Saharan_Africa.pdf|Identifying the barriers to the deployment of solar cookers in the energy-poor households of sub-Saharan Africa]] - ''Sarah Cochetel''
 
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*'''New video from [[Cord]] showing their solar cooking project in refugee camps in Chad'''
 
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{{HeadlineExt|Jose_Andres_Adam_Savage_SXSL_10-16.png|https://youtu.be/xrTtVZzJ0Do|Chef José Andrés teaches Adam Savage, former co-host of Mythbusters, about solar & improved combustion cooking at the White House "South by South Lawn" event}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Muni_Seva_Ashram_Scheffler_array_(India_Herald),_12-19-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/India#News|The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, Vadodara, India has switched from steam to thermic fluid to be able to provide nighttime solar cooking}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Comany_rooftop_kitchen_at_Family_Bank,_12-13-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Company#News|Sudanese bank supports microfinancing initiative with local solar cooking manufacturer}}
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{{HeadlineExt|IMG-20161202-WA0002c.jpg|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Alzubair_Saiyed|Assistant Professor in Gujart, India, has introduced solar cooking to over 800 women in the past month}}
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{{Section|November 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Canelo_de_Nos_in_El_Salvador,_11-30-16c.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Canelo_de_Nos#News|Canelo de Nos has spearheaded a program in El Salvador to instruct low-income citizens on how to construct their own solar ovens and other energy saving appliances}}
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{{HeadlineInt|Nakivale_Refugee_Settlement_-_September_2016_cropped.jpg|Refugee_camps#{{HeadingNews}}|The Solar Connect Association starts new projects in two Ugandan refugee camps}}
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{{HeadlineExt|CDDF & Sunlife student training in Ghana, 2-16 cropped.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/SunLife#News|In Ghana, the partnership of SunLife and the Community Directed Development Foundation has fostered empowerment with community-based solar programs}}
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{{Section|October 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|SCI_BIoneers_10-16.jpg|https://www.facebook.com/SolarCookers/posts/1337240576309322:0|Solar Cookers International joined One Earth Designs to demonstrate solar cooking at the Bioneers 2016 conference}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Entrepreneur_magazine_logo,_10-26-16.png|http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/solavore-llc-named-one-best-privately-owned-companies-america-entrepreneur-magazines-2169672.htm|Solavore, LLC Named One of the Best Privately-Owned Companies in America by Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur 360 List}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Solar_cooker_on_Everest,_Sun_and_Ice,_10-20-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Sun_and_Ice#News|Solar cooker quickly boils water in the intense sunlight of Mt. Everest base camp}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Indian_women_business_start-ups,_10-5-16.png|http://thewire.in/71132/indias-solar-women-win-un-climate-award/|Women in India find empowerment with solar businesses, and win UN climate award}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Sxsl_10-16.jpg|https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/782963802715328512|Chef José Andrés presented solar cooking technology at the South by South Lawn (SXSL) festival hosted at the White House}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Times_of_India_logo,_10-3-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/India#News|Solar cookers to be distributed to sixteen villages in the Agra region of India}}
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{{HeadlineExt|SCI_solar_cookers_gragh_Lower_Nykach,_Kenya,_9-22-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cookers_International#News|Kenyan households to receive 1,000 CooKit solar cookers with help from Solar Cookers International and the Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Local_Technical_Group,_Athens,_Greece_solar_project,_9-20-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Greece#News|The Project Daedalus - Local Technical Group in Athens, Greece has begun to explore solar cooking as a way to help transplanted refugees be able to help themselves}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Dominican_Republic_solar_cooking_2016,_Yahoo_News.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Dominican_Republic#News|How solar ovens are changing lives in the Dominican Republic}}
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{{Section|August 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Just_B-Solar_kids,_8-26-16.png|http://spokesman-recorder.com/2016/08/24/just-b-solar-camp-introduces-youth-future/|Children learn about their solar future at solar summer camp}}
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{{HeadlineExt|SCI_Association_logo,_8-10-16.png|https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDYIGoYI-vev8tAzGwrdPI6N6bsaUJnxWv0sj8h72Gyog1fA/viewform|SCI is evaluating the need for a special workshop for social entrepreneurs at the 6th SCI World Conference 2017 in India. Sign up with this quick survey by Friday, 19 August...}}
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{{HeadlineExt|SCI-FoST_Nepal_2016_training,_8-10-16.png|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Nepal#News|Solar cookers help to empower local women in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal}}
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{{Section|July 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|SCI-Tanzania_Rau_project,_7-26-16.png|http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/projects/tanzania/|Villagers in Tanzania reduce consumption of charcoal and firewood through use of solar and fireless cookers}}
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{{HeadlineExt|AllAfrica.gif|http://allafrica.com/stories/201607040174.html|Environmentalists Deeply Concerned With Firewood Consumption in Refugee Camps}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Ny_times_logo.png|http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/world/africa/africas-charcoal-economy-is-cooking-the-trees-are-paying.html|New York Times article explores the charcoal production economy in Africa and its environmental impact}}
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{{HeadlineExt|CSR_Initiative_Dubai_2016.jpg|http://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/local/heres-how-to-have-fun-with-solar-energy|So far, Beacon Energy Solutions has introduced solar cooking to more than 200 students across three different schools in Dubai}}
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{{Section|June 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Think_progress_logo.png|http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/27/3793121/air-pollution-iea-study/|A new report from the International Energy Agency suggests that small investments in clean energy technology can significantly reduce air pollution-related deaths}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Aavin_milk_pasteurization,_6-20-16.png|http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/aavin-takes-the-solar-route-to-process-milk/article8725950.ece|Aavin looks to solar pasteurization to process milk in India}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Sci_logo.png|http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/events/shineon|Celebrating solstice with Solar Cookers International}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Gaza-solar-cookers-family_June_2016.jpg|http://www.anera.org/stories/solar-cookers-greenhouses-help-gaza-farmers|Solar cookers ease hardship of poor farmers in Gaza}}
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{{Section|May 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|How_many_solar_cookers_2016.jpg|http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/solar-cooker-distribution|Add your project to SCI's interactive map documenting solar cooking around the world}}
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{{HeadlineExt|The_hindu.jpg|http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/delhis-ranking-improves-in-the-latest-report-by-who/article8607954.ece|Editorial in The Hindu discusses impacts of air pollution in India and includes solar cookers and improved cookstoves as solutions}}
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{{HeadlineExt|ARUN_100_award,_India,_5-17-16.png|http://www.nyoooz.com/chennai/460837/award-for-excellence# Award for excellence|Solar thermal excellence award in India for ARUN 100 solar cooking system with heat storage}}
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{{Section|April 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Piyush_Goyal,_state_minister,_4-30-16.png|http://www.uspa24.com/bericht-7843/india-now-will-lead-the-world-towards-clean-energy-rather-than-follow.html|India has exceeded solar targets by 116% this year}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Time_logo.png|http://time.com/4305412/nigeria-women-firewood-health-risks|In a new TIME Magazine article, solar cooking is discussed as a solution to limiting women's exposure to cooking smoke in Nigeria}}
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{{HeadlineInt|URERMS_April_2016_cropped.jpg|Arezki_Harmim#News|In Algeria, 179 pupils take part in a solar cooking festival with 70 different designs}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Sierra_club_04-16.jpg|http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-3-may-june/faces-clean-energy/dr-catlin-powers-eco-engineer|The latest issue of Sierra Club Magazine features Dr. Catlin Powers describing why she started One Earth Designs, the impact she's seen solar cooking make, and what she would like to work on next}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Roorkee_IIT_institutional_array,_4-14-16.png|http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/uttarakhand/roorkee-iit-uses-solar-energy-for-steam-cooking/220102.html|Roorkee IIT uses solar energy for steam cooking, saving 5,000 LPG cylinders a year}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Catlin_powers_04-16.png|http://livestream.com/CGI/events/5082475/videos/117937411|Video: Dr. Catlin Powers of One Earth Designs speaking at a Clinton Global Initiative University panel on how solar cooking combats household air pollution and fuel scarcity}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Janak_McGilligan.jpg|http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Janak_McGilligan#News|Dr. Mrs. Janak McGilligan appointed to the Solar Cookers International Advisory Council}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Usaid_logo.jpeg|https://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/female-farmers-lead-way-recovery-philippines|USAID provides solar rice dryers to farmers in the Philippines for typhoon recovery}}
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==July 2012==
 
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*'''Dr. Robert Metcalf discusses solar cooking on the Afternoon Edition (Saskatchewan, Canada)''' - [http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?clipid=2254960402&position=308475&site=cbc.news.ca listen to the recording]. [[Bob Metcalf|Dr. Metcalf]] is a founding member of [[Solar Cookers International]].
 
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{{HeadlineExt|Greenpeace_logo.jpg|http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/greenpeace-rainbow-warrior-welcomes-visitors-in-yokohama|Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior demonstrates solar cooking during port visits}}
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{{HeadlineExt|JulieGreene_2016_Faro.jpg|http://www.sunpod.de/2016/03/187-sunpod-interview-julie-greene-solar-cookers-international|SunPod interview with SCI director Julie Greene from recent Portugal conference}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Huffington-post-logo.png|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/morocco-the-noor-ouarzazate_us_56d5b910e4b03260bf782322|The Huffington Post reports on the world's largest solar power plant being activated in Morocco}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Epicurious_Logo_03-16.png|http://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/solar-powered-cooking-gosun-oven-article|GoSun featured in Epicurious article on how solar cooking can benefit those living in both developing and developed countries}}
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==June 2012==
 
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*'''Solar cooking heads to The Discovery Center''' - [[Central Valley Solar Cookers]], founded by [[Carl Peters]], is one of the most successful solar cooking clubs in the [[USA]]. Located in Fresno, {{State|California}}, the group now has 111 members. They recently had their First Annual Solar Cooking Festival, which was a huge success. They now have enough money to buy materials to build a solar cooker for use at [http://www.thediscoverycenter.net/4901/35918.html The Discovery Center], a free non-profit science education facility. The park is fully self-funded and situated on six acres. Carl thinks a [[solar panel cooker|panel]] type cooker would be the safest type. It would be a nice addition to ultimately see solar cookers in our parks instead of only charcoal and wood burning BBQs.
 
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{{HeadlineInt|Three_Million_Solar_Cooker_map,_SCI,_2-24-16.png|Media:Three-million-solar-cookers-worldwide-impacting-over-eleven-million-people_Faro_2016.pdf|Three Million Solar Cookers Worldwide Impacting Over Eleven Million People - ''SCI''}}
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{{HeadlineInt|Annual_Report_SCI_2015_image.jpg|Media:Annual_Report_SCI_2015.pdf|Solar Cookers International releases its Annual Report for 2015}}
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{{Section|January 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|United-nations-UN-flag-picrure.png|http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/advocacy|United Nations accepts Solar Cookers International's statement for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Sci_logo.png|https://youtu.be/R6Tsx6bOIG4|Did you miss the webinar on how to create and edit SCI Wiki pages? The recording is available on the SCI YouTube channel}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Kuwait1.jpg|http://www.wamda.com/memakersge/2016/01/a-cost-effective-and-environmentally-friendly-way-to-cook-your-food-straight-out-of-kuwait-|Team E-Innovation wins second place in Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge for their solar box cooker design}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Keshav_Srushti_5.jpg|http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Students-amazed-after-culinary-date-with-the-Sun/articleshow/50557661.cms|A record setting 5,760 students participated in a solar cooking event on January 12, 2016 in Aurangabad, India as part of Maha SuryaKumbh 2016 organized by Keshav Srushti}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Keshav_Srushti_sun_image,_1-13-16.png|http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/A-culinary-date-with-the-sun-on-Sankranti/articleshow/50539045.cms|On January 24th, after this year's Maha SuryaKumbh, Keshav Sruhti will be opening an educational solar energy park in Uttan, India}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Portugal conference 2016.JPG|http://www.consolfood.org|{{Event}}January 22-23, 2016: (Faro, Portugal) CONSOLFOOD 2016 Conference: Advances in Solar Food Processing and Solar Cooking}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Huffington-post-logo.png|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/air-pollution-cooking-stoves_5689fdb4e4b06fa68882b733|One Earth Designs featured in Huffington Post: "How Do You Fight The World's 'Largest Environmental Health Problem'? Harness The Sun."}}
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{{HeadlineExt|CESweblogo.jpg|http://cesweb.org/Events-Programs/Innovation.aspx|GoSun presented with the Innovation Award for Eco-Design and Sustainable Technologies at CES 2016}}
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{{HeadlineExt|Globalalliancelogo.png|https://cleancookstoves.org/binary-data/DOCUMENT/file/000/000/455-1.pdf|Funding opportunity from the U.S. EPA and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves for innovations in the areas of integrated cooking, heating, and electric power generation.}}
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*'''Paper:''' [[Media:Water_disinfection_for_developing_countries_Burch_Thomas.pdf|Water Disinfection for Developing Countries and Potential for Solar Thermal Pasteurization]] - ''Jay E. Burch and Karen E. Thomas
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*'''India news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/India#News Workshop for 120 engineering students in Rajkot, Gujarat, produces 60 solar cookers]
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*'''Report:''' [[2013 World Bank Assessment of Solar Cooking in China]]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Emerald Planet December 11, 2016|SCI Executive Director, Julie Greene, explains the importance of solar cooking in Emerald Planet interview]]
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*'''Namibia news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Namib_Desert_Environmental_Education_Trust#News Sustainability project comes to a close in Namibia]
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*'''Media article (Refugee camps):''' [http://www.utilities-me.com/article-4662-energy-access-to-displaced-people/ Energy access to displaced people] - ''Utilities-me.com''
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*'''EVENT: 21 August 2017: (Chicago, USA)''' . [http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/events/total-solar-eclipse-2017-08-21/ Celebrate the total eclipse of the sun at the Adler Planetarium. All things solar with free outdoor activities including solar cooking demonstrations]
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*'''EVENT: 26-27 April 2017: (Sacramento, USA)''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Template:USAEvents Green California Summit at the Sacramento Convention Center]
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*'''United Kingdom news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/United_Kingdom#News Solar cooking demonstration in Cambridge]
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*'''Haiti news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Haines_Solar_Cooker#News Eagle Scout arranges a solar cooker delivery to Haiti]
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*'''Media article (USA):''' [http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2016/12/05/ed-goldman-julie-greene-is-on-a-sunfueled-mission.html Julie Greene is on a sun-fueled mission] - ''Sacramento Business Journal''
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*'''Media article (Germany):''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.energie-weblog.de/energiebilanz-von-solarzellen|Energiebilanz von Solarzellen|Energie Weblog}}
   
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*'''New video:''' The need for a more durable solar cooker for desert refugee camps
 
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Cooking with sunlight Julie Greene TEDxSacramento|Julie Greene, SCI Executive Director, presenting at TEDxSacramento]]
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*'''Audio:''' [http://www.cchange.net/2015/11/24/greene/ Sea Change Radio interview with Julie Greene]
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*'''Video:''' [http://www.canalcostatv.es/las-cocinas-solares-llegaron-ayer-la-playa-de-la-antilla/ Las cocinas solares llegaron ayer a la playa de La Antilla] - ''Canalcosta''
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*'''Kenya news:''' [[Faustine Odaba]] conducted a workshop about solar and [[heat-retention cooking]] cooking in Lordariak, Kajiado County, [[Kenya]] located between Nairobi and the [[Tanzania]]n border, for 132 participants.
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*'''Page:''' [[Nakivale Refugee Settlement]]
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*'''Video:''' [http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/aqui-la-tierra/aqui-tierra-electrodomestico-revolucionario/3744339/ Aquí la tierra - Un electrodoméstico revolucionario] - ''TVE''
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*'''Brazilian promoter:''' [[Surian dos Santos]]
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*'''Retained-heat cooker design:''' [[KotoThermosCooker]]
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*'''Page:''' [[United Nations Sustainable Development Goals]]
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*'''Cooker design:''' The [[LIBERTAD 400]], a collapsable [[parabolic solar cooker]] from France.
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*'''EVENT: 19 November 2016: (Ihiala, Nigeria)''' [[Media:Invitation_to_Technology_Fair,_Nigeria,_11-15-16._pdf.pdf|Solar Technology Fair at the Mother Paul Offiah Memorial Boy's Secondary School Azia]]
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*'''Solar dryer design:''' [[SimplaSec Plus Solar Dryer]]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:The_Effect_of_Thickness_of_Aluminium_Films_on_Optical_Reflectance_-_Robert_Lugolole_and_Sam_Kinyera_Obwoya.pdf|The Effect of Thickness of Aluminium Films on Optical Reflectance]] - ''Robert Lugolole and Sam Kinyera Obwoya''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Cứu trợ nạn nhân lũ lụt tại Quảng Bình - Relief for flood victims|Caritas Chinh Toa and Solar Serve in Danang helped flood victims in Quang Binh]]
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*'''Construction plans:''' [[Media:SolarDryerPanelCooker.pdf|Food drying attachment for solar panel cookers]]
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*'''Uganda news:''' [http://allafrica.com/stories/201611080060.html Makerere Students Assemble 'Made in Uganda' Solar Cooker] - ''allAfrica''
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*'''EVENT: 3 November - 4 December 2016: (Aubagne, France)''' [http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes/bouches-du-rhone/aubagne/cuisine-solaire-restaurant-ephemere-aubagne-1122229.html An experimental solar restaurant, "Le Présage" has been opened by chef, Ghislaine Milliet in Aubagne for one month.]
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[UltraLightCooker Traveller]]
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*''' Cooker accessory:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_cooking_pots#Pot_risers SunLife has developed a simple scaffold to raise the cook pot and provide a way for carrying]
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*'''Report:''' [[SunLife]] releases its [[Media:SunLife_NGO_Annual_Report_for_2015-15th_Feb_2016-v3_Boss.pdf|Annual Report for 2015]].
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*'''Italy news:''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.murlocultura.com/site/murlocultura/83-anno-2020/murlocultura-2016-nr-4/360-forni-solari-da-murlo-a-Palermo|Forni solari da Murlo a Palermo}}
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*'''Device manual:''' [[Media:SolSaver_Manual_ENG.pdf|Sol*Saver Manual]]
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[UltraLightCooker Scout]]
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*'''Media article (Nepal):''' [http://www.myrepublica.com/news/8509 Experts stress on providing clean cooking solution for all] - ''myRepública''
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*'''Argentina news:''' Listen to Pierre Herrouët from [[Solar Inti]] explain how they his group is working to distribute solar cookers in the rugged Puna region of [[Argentina]]. The [http://enriquebianco.com.ar/cocinas-ecologicas-para-la-puna/ radio interview] (Spanish).
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Como construir una cocina solar de caja|Como construir una cocina solar de caja]] ([[Easy Lid]])
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*'''Manufacturer page:''' [[Clique Solar]] designs and installs versions of the [[ARUN 100]] technology throughout [[India]].
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*'''India news:''' [http://www.insolthermtimes.in/node/252 New solar thermal steam cooking system installed in Mahrashtra.]
   
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* '''Solar Cookers World Network Facebook group reaches 600 members''' - [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16213904406 Join the discussion].
 
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*'''EVENT: 29 October 2016: (Uruguay)''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Uruguay#Events Uruguay Events]
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*'''Media article (UK):''' [http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14804315.The_Williams_family_explain_how_the___39_bum_gun__39__can_cut_your_bills_and_your_carbon_footprint UK family cuts its bills and carbon emissions] - ''The Oxford Times''
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*'''Report:''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://nconchalozano.blogspot.com/p/construction-dun-four-solaire-reflexion.html|Construct a fresnel lens base from foam and a heated cutting wire}}
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*'''Media article (Spain):''' [http://www.huelvainformacion.es/article/huelva/2394271/la/cocina/solar/y/sus/beneficios.html La cocina solar y sus beneficios] - ''Huelva Información''
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*'''EVENT: Fall 2016: (Online)''' Dr. [[Ajay Chandak]] is organizing free workshops on [https://www.whatsapp.com Whatsapp]. The first two are on solar cooking and innovative financing for solar power projects. [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Events#Online Information to register...]
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*'''Patent:''' [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20020139414A1/en Non-imaging system for radiant energy flux transformation (Patent #US20020139414A1)]
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*'''Solar Cookers International news:''' [[Julie Greene]], SCI Executive Director, was nominated for the Outstanding Women Leaders Award for Vision by the National Association of Women Business Owners, Sacramento Valley. [http://nawbo-sac.org/owlawards More info...]
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*'''Solar Cookers International news:''' Solar Cookers International proudly joined Peace Boat Int'l to demonstrate solar cooking in New York, NY on 20 October 2016.
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*'''Switzerland news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Switzerland#News Solemyo is offering solar cooker workshops at their location in Geneva through the fall and winter]
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*'''Manufacturer page:''' [[ISOMET]] has a long history of promoting solar cooking and drying in Burkina Faso.
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*'''Media article (Solari):''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/09/29/solari-pentola-cucina_n_12246072.html|Solari, la pentola per cucinare a energia solare. L'idea di Bodin Hon, designer giramondo con la passione per l'Italia}} - ''L'Huffington Post''
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*'''Media article (The Gambia):''' [http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/association-for-the-mentally-disabled-supports-tanka-tanka Mental health facility receives donation of solar appliances to help with patient recovery']
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:How_Solar_Connect_sustains_a_Solar_Cooking_Business.pdf|How Solar Connect sustains the solar cooking business]] - ''[[Kawesa Mukasa]], Director''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Développement_et_expérimentation_d’un_nouveau_cuiseur_solaire_stationnaire.pdf|Développement et expérimentation d’un nouveau cuiseur solaire stationnaire]] - ''A. Harmim * , M. Merzouk 1, M. Boukar et M. Amar''
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*'''EVENT: 15-16 October 2016: (La Paz, Bolivia)''' [[Inti Illimani]] is offering a two-day workshop covering the construction and use of solar cookers in the Sopocachi neighborhood of La Paz. More information at: [mailto:asociación.intiillimani@gmail.com asociación.intiillimani@gmail.com]
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*'''Sudan news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Company#News All-metal solar box cooker in production from the Solar Energy Enterprises Company]
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*'''EVENT - 10 October 2016 - 22:00 GMT (16:00 Central Time - Chiapas):''' [http://www.gotomeet.me/MujeresSolares Nociones basicas de la concentración solar].
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*'''El Salvador news:''' In 2017, [[Cocina Solar Booix]] is planning to collaborate with Grupo El Salvador de Ingeniería Sin Fronteras and distribute 100 of their box cookers to families in [[El Salvador]].
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*'''Parvati Solar Cooker news:''' [http://www.ebay.com/itm/PARVATI-Solar-Cooker-Oven-ECO-FREINDLY-COOKING-WITH-SOLAR-ENERGY-/112105959131?ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123 Parvarti Solar Cooker available through eBay]
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*'''Algeria news:''' The [[Renewable Energy Development Center]] of Algeria has developed the [[Asymetric CPC box solar cooker]].
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*'''Media article (India):''' [http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=416822 HIMURJA provides over 37,000 solar cookers] - ''daijiworld''
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*'''Senegal news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cooking_KoZon#News Pilot project initiated in Diouloulou, South Senegal with assistance from Solar Cooking KoZon]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Ben-Stove_Workplace.pdf|Ben Stove workspace]] - ''[[Dieter Seifert]]''
   
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{{Section|September 2016}}
*'''Solar Cooking Hits the Mainstream''' - ''StarTides'' ([http://star-tides.net/node/2761 Read more...])
 
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*'''Media article (India):''' [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/Solar-cookers-to-be-distributed-in-16-villages/articleshow/54550230.cms? Solar cookers to be distributed in 16 villages] - ''The Times of India''
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*'''Mali news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Togo_Tilé#News [[Solar Cooking KoZon]] reports sales of box cookers are brisk at the Togo Tilé retail store in Mali.]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:AnnualReport2015_English.pdf|Solar Cooking KoZon Annual Report for 2015 ]]
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*'''EVENT - 31 October - 8 November 2016: (Online)''' [http://try.thegrownetwork.com/menhs2016fall/?mc_cid=93f5269615&mc_eid=5de771b032 The Mother Earth News Homesteading Summit will be available online]
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*'''India news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/India#News Solar cookers to be distributed in sixteen villages of the Agra region]
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*'''Media article (Netherlands):''' [https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/this-man-cooks-his-lunch-on-a-satellite-dish This Man Cooks His Lunch on a Satellite Dish] - ''Munchies''
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*'''Zambia news:''' [https://www.lusakatimes.com/2016/09/23/uk-lecturer-donates-16-parabolic-solar-cookers-various-communities/ UK lecturer donates sixteen parabolic solar cookers to various communities in Zambia]
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*'''Bulgaria news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/HoSa_Solar#News Local celebration in Kocherinovo incudes solar cooking display by HoSa Solar]
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*'''Media article (Nigeria):''' [[Nigeria#{{HeadingNews}}|American University of Nigeria students build solar ovens]] - ''Vanguard''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Solar Cooking with Barbara Kerr and Sherry Cole|Barbara Kerr and Sherry Cole at their Sustainable Living Center in Taylor Arizona in 1997]]
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*'''Netherlands news:''' In July 2016 [[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon|Solar Cooking KoZon]] was given the opportunity to present themselves at a meeting in the Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ) in The Hague, [[Netherlands]]. [https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsolarcookingkozon.nl%2Ftwee-nieuwe-projecten-voor-gehandicapten-in-mali%2F Read more...]
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*'''Uganda news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Uganda#News Outreach demonstrations in Uganda] by [[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon]] in partnership with the [[Solar Connect Association]].
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*'''Mali news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cooking_The_Netherlands_-_KoZon#News Mali women receive access to solar cooking provided by [[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon]]]
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*'''EVENT - Friday, 11 November 2016: (Faro, Portugal)''' Prof. [[Celestino Ruivo]] has organized a solar cooking meeting. More details are available by contacting Celestino at [mailto:cruivo@ualg.pt cruivo@ualg.pt].
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*'''Research paper:''' [http://www.cder.dz/spip.php?article376 Contribution à l’amélioration des performances d’un cuiseur solaire boîte] - ''[[Arezki Harmim]], M. Belhamel, M. Boukar et M. Amar''
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*'''Research paper:''' [http://www.cder.dz/download/Art16-4_3.pdf Réalisation et expérimentation d’un cuiseur solaire boîte à surface réceptrice inclinée muni d’un réflecteur plan] - ''F. Yettou, B. Azoui, A. Malek, A. Gama, M.A. Rouissa et O. Benzeggouta''
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*'''Research paper:''' [http://www.cder.dz/spip.php?article576 Study and simulation of concentrating irradiance in box solar cooker with tracking reflectors] - ''F. Yettou, B. Azoui, A. Malek, and A. Gama''
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*'''Lesotho news:''' [https://www.facebook.com/bethelbusinessandcommunitydevelopmentcentre The Bethel Business and Community Development Centre has won the 2016 Energy Global Award for Lesotho].
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*'''Video:''' [http://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/weltspiegel/sendung/sambia-holzkohle-100.html Segment on German TV shows a small group of poor Africans chopping down a large tree to make a bit of money with charcoal production] - ''ARD''
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*'''Lesson plans:''' [[Media:Elementary_Solar_Cooking_Submission_-_Alison_Davis_-_September_2016.pdf|Solar cooking lesson plans for grades 1-6]] - ''Alison Davis''
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*'''USA news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/USA#News The PPG Foundation has provided financial support for a solar oven engineering/science project for second-grade students in Texico, {{State|Illinois}}, [[USA]].]
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*'''United Kingdom news:''' [http://www.slicksolarstove.com/slick-solar-cooking-at-the-uk-green-gathering-2016/ SLiCK – Solar Cooking at the UK Green Gathering 2016]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Holzkohle_in_Afrika_und_ARTIS-Institutes.pdf|Holzkohle in Afrika und ARTIS-Institutes]] - ''[[Dieter Seifert]]''
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*'''Project evaluation:''' [[Media:Solar_Cooking_Compendium_Main_report_1-GTZ_2004.pdf|Solar Cooking Compendium: Challenges and Achievements of the Solar Cooker Field Test in South Africa (2004)]] - ''[[GIZ]]''
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*'''Video:''' Watch the [[Sun Ovens International]] webinar replay: [http://events.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=89022936&mc_cid=335932e27d&mc_eid=5de771b032 How sunlight saves you money while being prepared]
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*'''Italy news:''' [[Italy#News|Sentinelle dell'Energia held a public presentation about the opportunities to promote and diffuse the utilisation of solar ovens in refugee camps and in India.]]
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*'''EVENT - Tuesday, 13 September 2016:''' From 11:00am - 12:20pm EDT (8:00am - 9:30am PDT) the Winrock International and the U.S. EPA will present the webinar: '''Using Stove Emissions Data to Estimate Air Quality''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Events#Webinar More information...]
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*'''Kenya news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Refugee_camps#News Renewed solar cooking workshops at Kenyan refugee camps as participants prepare for camp closings.]
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*'''EVENT - Friday, 16 September 2016: (Dodgeville, {{state|Wisconsin}}, [[USA]]''') [[Joel Goodman]] will be presenting his Renewable Energy Microgrid Project Ideas at the Dodgeville library at 2 pm. [[Media:2016_Sept_16-2pm_JH_Goodman_at_Dodgeville_library_Friday.pdf|Preview images...]]
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*'''Media article (Malawi):''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/world/africa/poverty-drought-malawi-water-supply.html Poverty, Drought and Felled Trees Imperil Malawi Water Supply] - ''New York Times''
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{{Section|August 2016}}
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*'''Audio interview:''' [http://files.feedplace.de/sunpod/194-sunpod-interview-deepak-gadhia-from-deforestation-to-social-engineering.mp3 Deepak Gadhia tells the story his solar cooking research and promotion] (Starts in German, but after one minute switches to English)
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*'''Report:''' [https://depts.washington.edu/airqual/Marshall_66.pdf Health and Climate-Relevant Pollutant Concentrations from a Carbon-Finance Approved Cookstove Intervention in Rural India] - ''Ther W. Aung, et al''
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*'''Haiti news:''' [[Haiti#News|Solar Oven Partners seeks new director]]
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*'''Media article, Dominican Republic:''' [http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/solar-oven-use-dominican-republic Solar Oven Use in the Dominican Republic] ''Pulitzer Center''
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*'''World Health Organization news:'''  Report from February 2016; [http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs292/en/ Household air pollution and health]
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*'''Water safety device:''' [[Potavida]] is company that has developed a [[SODIS]] device with a built-in UV indicator to tell when water is safe to drink.
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*'''Zambia news:''' [[Sol Suffit]] representatives, [[Clement Musonda]] and his wife, provided a [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Zambia#News solar cooking demonstration] in a village in [[Zambia]].
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*'''Cooker review:''' [https://gearjunkie.com/solavore-solar-oven-review Cook With The Sun: Solavore Solar Oven Review] - ''gearjunkie.com''
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*'''Media article, Bolivia, USA :''' [http://www.ocregister.com/articles/stoves-726025-people-open.html Bolivians' kitchens become a passion for San Clemente teen] - ''The Orange County Register''
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*'''Kazakhstan news:''' New [http://kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/news_kazakhstan/page_169594_ green technology center] opens in Karaganda, [[Kazakhstan]].
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*'''Solar cooking volunteer needed (Washington D.C., USA)''' - [[Solar Household Energy]] is seeking a volunteer to represent SHE and demonstrate solar cooking at farmer's markets and other community events in the Washington D.C. area. The time commitment will be Saturdays from 8:30am - 1:30pm. [http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/7ZTBdNFmHZ5P/ More information...]
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*'''EVENT: Sunday, 14 August 2016: (Sacramento, California, USA)''' - The Sacramento Vegetarian Society with hold their monthly gathering at California Guild Hall, 3830 U Street, at 5:30pm. Ilsa Hess, SVS board member and volunteer from [[Solar Cookers International]], will demonstrate the different ways to cook with the sun. [http://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-Vegetarian-Society/events/231839437/ More information...]
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*'''Testing news:''' Dr. [[Alan Bigelow]] will be presenting a plan to develop a solar cooker testing certification program at the [http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/events/ 6th SCI World Conference 2017] in Gujarat, [[India]] this coming January.
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*'''Greece news:''' A new group, Project Daedalus - Local Technical Group, has formed in Athens to help local [[refugees]]. Assembling and using [[solar panel cookers]] is part of their approach. [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Greece#News More information...]
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*'''Design drawings:''' [[MUMA Solar Cooker]]
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*'''Recipe book:''' [[Media:2016_Mojave_Desert_AQMD_&_MEEC_Solar_Cook-Off_Recipes.pdf‎|2016 Mojave Desert AQMD & MEEC Solar Cook-Off Recipes]]
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*'''Wiki article:''' [[Low-tech reflective material]]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Solar_Cooking_in_the_UK.pdf‎|Solar Cooking in the UK]] - ''Stewart Maclachlan''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Evaluation_of_Energy-Saving_Options_for_Refugees_-_UNHCR_1998.pdf‎|Evaluation of Energy-Saving Options for Refugees (1998)]] - ''UNHCR-Geneva''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:The_Experience_of_UNHCR_and_its_Partners_with_Solar_Cookers_in_Refugee_Camps_1996.pdf‎ |The Experience of UNHCR and its Partners with Solar Cookers in Refugee Camps (1996)]] - ''UNHCR-Geneva''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:SCI_Mid-Year_Report_2016-7-25.pdf|Solar Cookers International Mid-Year Report for 2016]]
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*'''CooKit variation:''' [[CooKit#European_Solar_Panel_Cooker_variation|European Solar Panel Cooker]]
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*'''Solar cooker:''' [[Conet Solar Oven]]
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*'''Media article, Canada:''' [http://www.prpeak.com/community/where-the-road-begins-solar-cookers-reduce-carbon-footprint-1.2310496 Where the Road Begins: Solar cookers reduce carbon footprint] - ''Powell River PEAK''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Gujarat_Solar_Power_Policy-2015.pdf|Gujarat Solar Power Policy - 2015]] - ''Government of Gujarat''
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{{Section|July 2016}}
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Lessatura delle carote con il Copenaghen Solar Cooker modificato (dimensioni maggiori)|Large version of the Copenhagen Solar Cooker]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.power-eng.com/marketwired/2016/07/25/solar-oven-manufacturer-solavore-llc-receives-national-certification-as-a-women-s-business-enterpr.html Solar Oven Manufacturer, Solavore, LLC Receives National Certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council] - ''Power Engineering''
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*'''USA, Nicaragua news:''' The [[S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation]] has decided to take a hiatus, and step back from undertaking new projects. They will continue their support of Cornell University students who partner with the women of [[Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa]] in [[Nicaragua]]. Read more in the [[Media:S.T.E.V.E.N_Foundation_Annual_Report_2015.pdf|S.T.E.V.E.N Foundation Annual Report 2015]]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Evaluation_of_Usage_and_Fuel_Savings_of_Solar_Ovens_in_Nicaragua.pdf|Evaluation of Usage and Fuel Savings of Solar Ovens in Nicaragua]] - ''[[Gordon Bauer]]''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Empowering_young_Rural_and_Tribal_women_with_Solar_Cookers.pdf|Empowering Young Rural and Tribal Women with Solar Cookers]] - ''[[Janak McGilligan]]''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Lazola_paper.pdf|The Lazola — A New Box-Cooker of High Professionalism]]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:SCInet_Blackburn_paper_final.pdf|Characteristics of Solar Cooking Households in the United States]] - ''[[Natalia Blackburn]]''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Durable_High_Power_Panel_Type_Solar_Cooker_and_Its_Effectiveness_Study_in_Ethiopia.pdf|Durable High Power Panel Type Solar Cooker and Its Effectiveness Study in Ethiopia]] - ''[[Yuichi Nakajo]]''
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*'''USA news:''' [http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/solar-oven-manufacturer-solavore-llc-receives-national-certification-as-womens-business-2144991.htm Solar cooker manufacturer receives national certification as a women's business enterprise]
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*'''Presentation:''' [[Media:Bernhard-Mueller_presentation_2016.pdf|Solar cooking and charcoal production in East Africa]] - ''[[Bernhard Müller]]''
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*{{Event}}'''July 23 - August 6, 2016: (Dexter, OR, USA)''' People will be gathering at the Lost Valley Educational Center and eco-village, situated on eighty seven acres of mostly forested land located at 81868 Lost Valley Ln, Dexter, OR 97431, for solar cooking and camping. [http://eugene.craigslist.org/wan/5697484830.html More information...]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Τρέχουμε με 200! - Ηλιακός Φούρνος (Greenwave 2015)|Τρέχουμε με 200! - Ηλιακός Φούρνος (Greenwave 2015)]]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:SCI Solar Cooking Festival-0|SCInet Solar Cooking Festival 2014]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://allafrica.com/stories/201607040174.html Environmentalists Deeply Concerned With Firewood Consumption in Refugee Camps] - ''allAfrica''
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*{{Event}}'''July 27, 2016: (Faro)''' EcoSol Meeting - Surprise moment with Padre Himalaya and a solar lunch will take place at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia - Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha, Faro-Portugal. Meeting language will be Portuguese, but this will be not a big barrier if you are interested in this solar cooking activity. [[Media:EcoSol_Julho2016.pdf|More information...]]
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*{{Event}}'''October 14-16, 2016: (Ouarzazate)''' [http://moroccosolarfestival.com/ Morocco Solar Festival]
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*{{Event}}'''Sunday, July 24, 2016: (Lincoln City, Oregon, USA)''' The Sustainable Living Center in Lincoln City is developing a series of free workshops to address how to cook after the 'Big One'. The first takes place from 1 pm - 4 pm. All are invited to participate in this free, hands-on solar demonstration workshop. [http://www.oregoncoasttoday.com/oct/learn/20160719/cooking-after-the-big-one More information...]
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*'''India news:''' [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/NGO-organises-solar-building-workshop-for-students/articleshow/53286939.cms NGO organizes solar cooker workshop for students] - ''Times of India''
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*{{Event}}'''Saturday, July 23, 2016: (Shoreline, Washington, USA)''' The [http://shorelinesolar.org/nw-solarfest-2016/ NW SolarFest 2016] will take place from 10am - 5pm at Shoreline Community College, located at 16101 Greenwood Ave N. This event has included solar cooking demonstrations and displays in the past.
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://wwlp.com/2016/07/16/local-retired-professor-looks-to-improve-solar-cooking/ Local retired professor looks to improve solar cooking] - ''22News - WWLP.com''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:China_-_Accelerating_Household_Access_to_Clean_Cooking_and_Heating_-_World_Bank_-_September_2013.pdf|China: Accelerating Household Access to Clean Cooking and Heating]] - ''World Bank''
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:FaroDeclaracionES.pdf|Faro Declaration of Intent (Spanish)]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.energyvanguard.com/blog-building-science-hers-bpi/fun-in-sun-2015-solar-cooking-festival Fun in the Sun: The 2015 Solar Cooking Festival] - ''Energy Vanguard''
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*'''United Arab Emirates news:''' A new solar concentrator power plant was recently approved for construction in Dubai and is set to be the largest in the world. The plant will reportedly generate 1,000 megawatts of power by 2020 and 5,000 megawatts by 2030. [http://gizmodo.com/dubai-is-building-the-worlds-largest-concentrated-solar-1780781150 Read more...]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/world/africa/africas-charcoal-economy-is-cooking-the-trees-are-paying.html Africa’s Charcoal Economy Is Cooking. The Trees Are Paying] - ''New York Times''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Optimization_1.pdf|Optimization of Focal Length for a parabolic Solar Cooker Design]] - ''[[Hartmut Ehmler]]''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.lifegate.it/persone/stile-di-vita/solar-cooker-cucinare-fornelli-luce-sole Senza gasolio né legna, con il solar cooker si cucina con la luce del sole] - ''Lifegate''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Sun Buckets Solstice|Cooking with stored solar heat in a "Sun Bucket"]]
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:Solar-cookers-international-2013-peace-corps-imprved-cookstoves-handbook.pdf|Peace Corps Improved Cookstoves Manual (2013)]]
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*'''Video:''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZTDS9Ipvw8 A Walk On The Brightside: Solar Cookers For Africa]
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*{{Event}}'''July 16 2016: (Kofu)''' The 2nd All Japan Solar Cookers Convention. For more information, contact the [[Japan Solar Cooking Association]].
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://inhabitat.com/sunfire-fights-energy-poverty-in-africa-with-parabolic-solar-kits/ SunFire fights energy poverty in Africa with parabolic solar kits] - ''inhabitat''
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*{{Event}}'''March 23-25, 2017: (Lahore, Pakistan)''' Solar Pakistan 2017 will be taking place at the Lahore Expo Centre. "The main focus of this exhibition is to highlight the importance of the most practical and readily available non-conventional renewable resource i.e. Solar Energy." [http://solarfairpakistan.com More information...]
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*'''Video:''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_YMHQt7wko Fireless cookers complement solar cookers]
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*'''Article in the media:''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.apajh81.org/un-four-solaire-assemble-par-lesat-de-braconnac|Un four solaire innovant assemblé par l’ESAT de Braconnac|APJH dan le Tarn}}
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*'''Haiti news:''' [http://www.energyglobe.info/haiti2015?cl=en&id=162926/ El Fuego del Sol wins the 2015 Energy Globe Award for Haiti]
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*'''Tracking device:''' [http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Tarcker/ Simple solar tracker on Instructibles.com]
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*'''Reflective material option:''' [[Reflective_material#NEW:.C2.A0.E2.80.9CCool_Roofing.E2.80.9D_material|New "Cool Roofing" material]]
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{{Section|June 2016}}
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*{{Event}}'''August 4-7, 2016: (Chepstow, United Kingdom)''' Visit the [http://www.greengathering.org.uk UK Green Gathering], which will be run exclusively on wind and solar, and take part in the '2016 All World Fireless Cooker Beauty Contest' promoted by [[SLiCK]] solar cookers. [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Events#United_Kingdom More information...]
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*'''Report:''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/tl-tln_1060816.php#.V14CXryIk-U.linkedin The Lancet Neurology: For the first time, air pollution emerges as a leading risk factor for stroke worldwide] - ''The Lancet''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Traditional_Charcoal_in_Africa_and_need_of_African_Institutes_ARTIS.pdf|Traditional Charcoal in Africa and Need of African Institutes (ARTIS)]] - ''[[Dieter Seifert]]''
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[Developmental Association for Renewable Energies]]
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[Solar charcoal]]
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[Baking in a parabolic solar cooker]]
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[HoSa Solar]]
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*'''Bulgaria news:''' It is now possible to rent a solar cooker in Bulgaria and have the rental amount apply toward the purchase price if desired: {{GoogleLink|http://hosasolar.bg}}
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0527/From-cookstoves-to-forests-UN-puts-eye-on-mending-global-environment From cookstoves to forests, UN puts eye on mending global environment] - ''Christian Science Monitor''
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*'''Article in the Media:''' [http://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/india-government-presents-102-awards-solar-process-heat-and-solar-cooking India: Government Presents 102 Awards for Solar Process Heat and Solar Cooking] - ''Global Solar Thermal Energy Council''
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*'''Ecuador News:''' Prof. [[Rodrigo Carpio]] reports that [[Fundación Inti Uma Ecuador]] continues to organize solar cooking workshops for community groups, schools, and universities. [[Rodrigo Carpio|More information...]]
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*{{Event}}'''July 16, 2016: (Sacramento, USA)''' EnergyTeachers.org is offering a solar cooking workshop at the summer conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, in Sacramento. EnergyTeachers.org is offering to reimburse, for needy teachers, the $85 workshop fee, but there is also the conference registration fee, which starts at $85 for attending only workshops, and goes to higher amounts for the five-day conference. For more information contact [mailto:shawn@energyteachers.org shawn@energyteachers.org] or see [http://www.aapt.org/Conferences/sm2016/workshops.cfm workshop details] and [http://www.aapt.org/Conferences/sm2016/registrationpage.cfm registration].
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*'''Presentations: 1)''' [[Media:The_Solar_Food_Dehydrator_Guinto.pdf|The Solar Food Dehydrator]]; '''2)''' [[Media:The_Solar_Box_Oven_Guinto.pdf|The Solar Box Oven]]; '''3)''' [[Media:The_Solar_Dryer_in_Wings_for_Buko_Shells_Guinto.pdf|The Solar Dryer in Wings for Buko Shells]]
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:ADES_Gold_Standard_project_January_2006.pdf|ADES Gold Standard voluntary carbon credit project (2006)]]
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:HowtoUseISSC_EN_2009_-_Solar_Cooking_The_Netherlands_-_KoZon.pdf|How to Use Integrated Sustainable Solar CooKing]] - ''[[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon]]''
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:HowtoUseISSC_trainers_EN_2011_-_Solar_Cooking_The_Netherlands_-_KoZon.pdf|Trainers' Manual: How to Use Integrated Sustainable Solar CooKing]] - ''[[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon]]''
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:HowtouseISSC-end-users_EN_2011_Solar_Cooking_The_Netherlands_-_KoZon.pdf|Instruction booklet for end users (images without text)]] - ''[[Solar Cooking The Netherlands - KoZon]]''
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*'''External link:''' [http://www.terra.org/categorias/articulos/hornillos-de-lena-ben-2-y-ben-3-de-dieter-seifert Información detallada en español acerca de los hornillos Ben 2 y Ben 3]
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*'''Resource:''' [[Pots#Buying_pots|Two new sets of solar cooking pots available on Amazon.com]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://m.voanews.com/a/south-africa-sunfire-solar-cooker/3305229.html South African Company Designs Unique Solar Cooker] - ''VOA''
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*'''Video:''' [http://info.arte.tv/de/mauretanien-die-plage-nutzen A group in Mauritania shows how an invasive plant can be used to make charcoal briquettes]
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[High Back Solar Cooker]]
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*'''Document:''' [[All Season Solar Cooker#Documents|All Season Solar Cooker 2.0 frequently-asked questions]]
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*{{Event}}'''June 21-22, 2016: (New York City, USA)''' The 13th Annual Renewable Energy Finance Forum-Wall Street will take place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. Organizers state that the event draws an especially senior audience, comprising of over 600 decision makers, lenders, investors, investment bankers, private equity investors, venture capitalists, and other top transactional professionals in renewable energy finance. [http://www.reffwallstreet.com/about/event-overview More information...]
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*{{Event}}'''June 15-17, 2016: (Madrid, Spain)''' GENERA 2016, the annual Energy and Environment International Trade Fair, will be held at IFEMA - Feria de Madrid. Hall 5. The range of sustainable energy topics will include solar thermal. [http://www.ifema.es/genera_06/Informacion_general/Fichatecnica/index.htm More information...]
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*{{Event}}'''June 14-16, 2016: (Brussels, Belgium)''' Sustainable Energy Week has been organized by the European Commission to debate new policy developments, best practices and sustainable energy ideas, while networking events to forge alliances. [http://eusew.eu/about-conference More information...]
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*'''Kenya news:''' [[Camily Wedende]] recently presented the benefits of solar cooking to fellow members of Rotary Club of Eldoret, [[Kenya]]. Camily is the group leader of the [[Eldoret Student Projects]] program.
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*{{Event}} '''Monday, June 20, 2016: (Worldwide)''' Join the global community of supporters dedicated to making an impact with solar cooking. Gather your friends wherever you are and join in via Facebook, Twitter, email or YouTube with #CelebrateSolstice on June 20. - See more at: [http://www.solarcookers.org/#sthash.ISP3KpfZ.dpuf Celebrate Solstice - SCI]
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{{Section|May 2016}}
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*'''Facebook link:''' [https://www.facebook.com/Asociación-Inti-Illimani-554255621319449/ Inti Illimani]
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*'''External link:''' [https://smile.amazon.com/fireless-cook-book-construction-appliances-ebook/dp/B00C4YD4SU The Fireless Cookbook] - ''Margaret Johnes Mitchell'' (Kindle version available for $0.99 USD)
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*'''External link:''' The [[All Season Solar Cooker|All Season Solar Cooker 2.0]] is now [http://smile.amazon.com/All-Season-Solar-Cooker-included/dp/B01BTEN4YO available on Amazon]
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[Solari]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.af.undp.org/content/afghanistan/en/home/ourwork/environmentandenergy/successstories/HiddenWonderland.html Band-e-Amir: Afghanistan’s Hidden Wonderland] - ''[[UNDP]]''
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*'''Report:''' [[Media:Solar_Thermal_Technologies_in_Pakistan_-_Practical_Action_January_2016.pdf|Solar Thermal Technologies in Pakistan]] - ''[[Practical Action]]''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [https://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/13/solar-storage-can-cheaper-coal How Solar + Storage Can Be Cheaper Than Coal] - ''Clean Technica''
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*'''Afghanistan news:''' The [http://www.wcs.org/ Wildlife Conservation Society], in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, delivered solar cookers and [[:Category:Fuel-efficient wood stoves|fuel-efficient stoves]] to residents of the Band-e-Amir National Park in order to reduce [[fuelwood|fuelwood]] consumption. [http://www.af.undp.org/content/afghanistan/en/home/ourwork/environmentandenergy/successstories/HiddenWonderland.html# Read more...]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/this-solar-powered-cooker-sol-source-is-actually-saving-peoples-lives_uk_5744332ee4b0e71ef36da93f?hudj9o24fxql1sjor This Solar-Powered Cooker Is Actually Saving People’s Lives] - ''Huffington Post Tech UK''
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*'''Interview:''' [http://www.sunpod.de/2012/03/059_sunpod_interview-jo-hasler-und-der-lazola-solarkocher/ Jo Hasler und der LAZOLA-Solarkocher] - ''SunPod''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/05/kenyas-young-inventors-shake-up-old-technology Kenya’s Young Inventors Shake Up Old Technology] - ''Inter Press Service''
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*'''Algerian NGO:''' [[Renewable Energy Development Center]] (CDER)
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*'''Report:''' [http://www.cder.dz/download/Art18-2_6.pdf Comparative assessment of two different designs of box solar cookers under algerian sahara conditions] - ''F. Yettou, et al''
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*'''Solar cooking recipe site:''' [http://sunshineonmyshoulder.com/ Sunshine on my Shoulder] - ''[[Merry Bevill]]''
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[Centre de Développement DISADISA/ASBL]]
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*'''DRC news:''' [[Media:CENTRE_DE_DEVELOPEMENT_DISADISA_-ASBL,_5-17-16.pdf|Centre de Developpement Disadisa ONGD/ASBL- May 2016]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://punjabnewsexpress.com/news/49626-ministry-selected-aryans-chandigarh-for-developing-as-green-campus.aspx Ministry selected Aryans Chandigarh for developing as Green Campus] - ''Punjab News Express''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/12/who-global-air-pollution-is-worsening-and-poor-countries-are-being-hit-the-hardest/ WHO: Global air pollution is worsening, and poor countries are being hit the hardest] - ''The Washington Post''
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*'''Updated construction plans:''' [[Ben 2 and Ben 3 Firewood Stoves]]
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*'''South African vendor:''' [[So Solar]]
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*'''Stove design:''' [[Hobo Stove Gasifier]]
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*'''Demonstration video:''' [[:File:TIDES Demo 2012- Day One|TIDES Demo 2012- Day One]] narrated by [[Patricia McArdle]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [https://www.rt.com/news/342688-air-pollution-india-study/ India air pollution kills half a million per year, costs hundreds of billions – study] - ''RT''
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*'''Sierra Leone news:''' [[Solar Cookers International]] is seeking community solar cooking trainers and local manufacturing partners in [[Sierra Leone]] (near Newton and Freetown) to explore a potential project. If interested, contact [mailto:info@solarcookers.org info@solarcookers.org] with information about your experience and qualifications.
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[MUMA Solar Cooker]]
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*'''India news:''' It was acknowledged at [[CONSOLFOOD 2016]] that [[Tapi Food Products]] began their solar food processing in 2007 with a [[Scheffler2qm|Scheffler]] solar [[parabolic]] to [[Institutional solar cooking|steam system]], becoming India's first solar food processing facility. Case Study of Food Processing Factory Using Solar Concentrators - ''Ghanshyam Lukhi, Tapi Foods, [[India]]''
   
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Making-xacuti-while-the-sun-shines/articleshow/52170087.cms Making ''xacuti'' while the sun shines] - ''Times of India''
==May 2012==
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://fusion.net/story/264523/from-cookstoves-to-beefsteak-jose-andres-wants-to-revolutionize-the-world-of-food/ From cookstoves to beefsteak, José Andrés wants to revolutionize the world of food] - ''Fusion''
*'''Pat McArdle describes the top ten solar cooking projects''' - [[Media:Ten most significant solar cooking projects-McArdle-2012.pdf|Read the document]].
 
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*'''Wiki page:''' [[Solar and thermal calculations]]
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*'''Sudan news:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Institutional_solar_cooking#News Industrial Development of Solar Cookers in Sudan]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/GEDAs-solar-cooker-initiative-wins-laurels/articleshow/52083787.cms GEDA’s solar cooker initiative wins laurels] - ''Times of India''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.voanews.com/content/south-africa-sunfire-solar-cooker/3305229.html South African Company Designs Unique Solar Cooker] - ''Voice of America''
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*{{Event}}: '''Sunday, June 12, 2016: (Limassol sea wall open theater, Cyprus) ''' [http://eusew.eu/energy-days/diamond-solar-cooking-show The Diamond Solar Cooking Show]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:CST and Solar Cooker Excellence Award 2016|Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, presents on solar energy use in India.]]
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*'''Sudan news:''' [[Sudan#News|Solar Cooking on Earth Day]]
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{{Section|April 2016}}
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*'''Document:''' [[Ben_2_and_Ben_3_Firewood_Stoves#Construction_plans|Illustrated instructions for building the tripod stand for the Ben 2 and Ben 3 Firewood Stoves without welding]] (también [[Media:Alternative_to_welded_tripod_photos_drawings_and_list_of_parts_Spanish-_April_2016.pdf|en español]])
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*'''Kenya news''' - [[Camily Wedende]], group leader of [[Eldoret Student Projects]] in Elodoret, [[Kenya]] and member of Rotary Club of Eldoret, leads a Train-the-Trainers Workshop for the Rotary Club of Gulu, [[Uganda]]. The Uganda Rotary Club is preparing to distribute 500 [[Haines Solar Cooker]]s in Northern Uganda and is learning more about solar cooking from Camily's years of experience building, teaching and cooking with solar.
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*'''Cooker design:''' [[Sun Cork]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.namibian.com.na/Rural-school-promotes-solar-energy/39965/read Rural school promotes solar energy] - ''The Namibian''
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:FaroDeclarationIntent2016.pdf|Faro Declaration of Intent 2016]]
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*'''Newsletter:''' [[Media:Kathy_Dahl-Bredine_newsletter_Mar-April_2016.pdf|Kathy Dahl-Bredine's March-April 2016 newsletter]]. ([[Mexico]])
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.thetigernews.com/news/back-to-the-future-a-solar-oven-project/article_43e2bc26-078f-11e6-9964-1f8d3701fd53.html Back to the future: A solar oven project (food waste recycling)] - ''The Tiger''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.startribune.com/baking-a-carrot-cake-on-a-boat-led-to-buying-a-company/376812321/ Baking a carrot cake on a boat led to buying a company] - ''Star Tribune''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.gateschilipost.com/news/20160419/churchville-chili-solar-cooker-team-wins-asu-tech-challenge Churchville-Chili solar cooker team wins ASU Tech Challenge] - ''Gates-Chili Post''
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*'''Document:''' [http://www.she-inc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-09-22-Devices-for-Temp-Measurements-in-the-HP-SC_SHE-HannahRoland.pdf Devices for temperature measurement in the HotPot Solar Cooker] - ''[[Solar Household Energy]]''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:One Earth Design vil revolusjonere energibransjen.|One Earth Designs vil revolusjonere energibranshen]] ([[Norway]])
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/okonomi/2016/02/07/Griller-p%C3%B8lser-og-lader-opp-mobilen-ved-hjelp-av-sola-12117532.ece Griller pølser og lader opp mobilen ved hjelp av sola] - ''Adressa.no''
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*{{Event}}: '''Sunday, April 24, 2016: (Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA)''' In celebration of Earth Week, the Sisters of St. Agnes invite the public to an open house from 1 to 4 pm. to learn about solar energy. There will be displays on renewable energy, sustainable living, and the creation of a solar oven. St. Agnes Convent is located at 320 Fond du Lac County K, Fond du Lac. [http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/action-advertiser/2016/04/18/sisters-st-agnes-plan-earth-week-events/82898160/ More information...]
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*{{Event}}: '''Thursday, April 21, 2016: (Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA)''' The Sierra Vista Farmers Market’s annual Earth Day Celebration will be held during regular market hours from 10am to 2pm. at Veterans’ Memorial Park. The event will include solar cooking demonstrations. [http://sierravistafarmersmarket.com/Special_Events.html More information...]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.freepressjournal.in/mcgilligan-demonstrates-power-of-solar-cooking/827032 McGilligan demonstrates power of solar cooking] - ''The Free Press Journal''
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*{{Event}}: '''Saturday, April 30, 2016: (Tucson, Arizona, USA)''' [[Citizens for Solar]] will be holding its Annual Solar Potluck at Catalina State Park from 10am until sunset. [https://www.facebook.com/events/864902323564830/ More information...]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Remarks_on_Stove_Technologies_-_Seifert_February_2016.pdf|Remarks on Stove Technologies]] - ''[[Dieter Seifert]]''
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*'''Document:''' [http://www.pciaonline.org/webinars/iso-tc-285-cookstoves-standards-update Information on the ISO-TC-285 Cookstoves Standards]
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*'''Page:''' [[Solar Wok]]
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*'''Article:''' [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/poor-people-don%27t-need-charity-they-need-you-to-listen Poor people don't need your charity – they need you to listen] - ''World Economic Forum''
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*{{Event}}: '''Saturday, April 16, 2016: (Thousand Oaks, California, USA)''' Arbor/Earth Day Celebration - Solar cookers will be demonstrated. [http://www.toaks.org/government/depts/public_works/environmental/events/arbor_earth_day.asp More information...]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/uttarakhand/roorkee-iit-uses-solar-energy-for-steam-cooking/220102.html Roorkee IIT uses solar energy for steam cooking] - ''The Tribune''
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*'''Design:''' [[EuroSolarCooker Star]]
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*'''Audio interview:''' [[Crosby Menzies]], director of [[SunFire Solutions]], interview on the SunPod podcast. The discussion includes how Crosby got started with solar cooking and his new project, Solar Caravans. Recorded at [[CONSOLFOOD 2016]]. Listen on [http://www.sunpod.de/2016/04/191-sunpod-interview-crosby-menzies-promoting-solar-cooking-in-south-africa/ podcast page...]
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*'''Magazine issue:''' [[Media:BP68_EnergyInEmergencySettings.pdf|Energy in Emergency Situations]] - ''Boiling Point''
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*{{Event}}'''Saturday, June 11, 2016: (Cordova, California, USA)''' Solar cooking allows you to cook your food while saving time, energy and money—plus it's fun! Gain an understanding of how solar cooking works and the pros and cons of a number of different types of cookers. We will discuss how and when to use your solar cooker and provide recipes that lead to successful meals. Try solar-cooked foods and learn about how solar cookers are helping change lives in many parts of the world. Price: $40. [https://www.soilborn.org/index.php/events-a-classes/eventdetail/1974/-/solar-cooking-class-.html More information...]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Sport Solar Oven Cooking with the Sun|What can you cook in a Solavore Sport solar oven? You will be amazed by the possibilities!]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.clarku.edu/articles/these-clark-entrepreneurs-have-some-big-ideas These Clark entrepreneurs have some big ideas (Sun Top Solar Cookers)]- ''Clark University''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:SOLAR COOKIT-INTERNATIONAL WATER AND HEALTH ALLIANCE-0|Demonstration of the CooKit solar panel cooker]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/08/solar-ovens/ Three Solar Ovens that Give You the Power to Cook with the Sun] - ''EcoWatch''
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*'''Kenya News''': Local woman from Kingston provides school lunches and solar cookers to nearby Kamin Oningo. [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Kenya#News Read more...]
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:SCI Solar Cooking Festival|SCI Solar Cooking Festival 2014]]
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*'''Interview:''' [http://www.sunpod.de/2016/04/190-sunpod-interview-prof-pedro-serrano-solar-restaurant-in-chile Michael Bonke interviews Pedro Serrano about the solar restaurant, Villaseca, in Chile, with also his reflections on CONSOLFOOD 2016.] - ''SunPod'' (The nineteen minute interview begins in German for the first few minutes and then switches to English.)
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*'''Philippines news:''' [https://www.usaid.gov/results-data/success-stories/female-farmers-lead-way-recovery-philippines USAID has begun to provide solar rice dryers to rice farmers in the Philippines as part of the recovery from the typhoon in December 2015].
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*'''Language:''' Added Pashto translation to the entire site
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*'''Manual:''' [[Media:How_to_use_a_parabolic_solar_cooker_-_Global_Hope_Network_International.pdf|How to Use a Parabolic Solar Cooker]] (Dari and English) - ''[[Grace Magney]]''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Manual de construcción de cocina solar parabólica de Cartón|Manual de construcción de cocina solar parabólica de Cartón]] (Spanish and English)
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.navhindtimes.in/when-summer-arrives-go-solar When summer arrives, go solar] - ''The Navhind Times''
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{{Section|March 2016}}
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*'''Conference papers:''' All of the presentations and posters have uploaded to: [[CONSOLFOOD 2016]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/2016/03/30/new-solar-cooker-design-could-have-big-implications New solar cooker design could have big implications] - ''thedailyobserver.ca''
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*'''Full text of book:''' [[Media:Solar_Cookers_in_the_Third_World_-_GIZ_1990.pdf|Solar Cookers in the Third World]] - ''[[GIZ]] (1990)''
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*'''Guinea News:''' Diallo Abdoulaye Sadio reports that the [[Association Des Volontaires Guineens Pour l' Environnement]] has been promoting solar thermal cooking for twenty-two years in [[Guinea]] and other other areas of West Africa. He feels by training young people with sustainable employment opportunities is helping to fight against the appeal of terrorist organizations. He is hoping to attract the attention of an NGO willing to help with their efforts.
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*'''Wiki article''': [[Bernhard Müller]] has written an excellent explanation of how [[:Category:Fuel-efficient wood stoves|fuel-effcient]] gasifier stoves work and are constructed. See: [[Gasifier]]s
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*'''Senegal News:''' Senegal receives an integrated cooking facility with help from [[Sun and Ice]]. [[Stephan Zech]] reports that the company has sponsored a facility in [[Senegal]] that is promoting solar cooking, heat retention cooking, and fuel-efficeint stove use. [https://www.facebook.com/Sun-and-Ice-Solarkocher-182264431865854/ More information...]
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*'''Audio:''' [http://www.sunpod.de/2016/03/187-sunpod-interview-julie-greene-solar-cookers-international SCI executive director Julie Greene is interviewed on the Sunpod podcast]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:A Strategy to Eliminate Water-borne Disease in Lower Nyakach Kenya - Metcalf and Chienjo .pdf|A Strategy to Eliminate Water-borne Disease in Lower Nyakach Kenya]] - ''[[Robert Metcalf]] and [[Dinah Chienjo]]''
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Nutritive Value of Foods Cooked in Solar Box Cooker - Rajammal P. Devadas.pdf|Nutritive Value of Foods Cooked in Solar Box Cooker]] - ''Rajammal P. Devadas''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:GoSun Solar Stove Gets Cooking|GoSun Solar Stove Gets Cooking]]
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*'''Newsletter:''' [[Media:FINAL_Spring_EnergyEd_News-wLinks.pdf|SMUD Energy Education News, Spring 2016]]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:An_Investigation_of_Skirts_-_Andreatta_and_Wohlgemuth_(January_2010)_.pdf|An Investigation of Skirts]] - ''[[Dale Andreatta]] and Alex Wohlgemuth''
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*'''India News:''' BENGALURU: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has invited applications and proposals from educational institutions to convert to green campuses...Solar cooking systems must be utilised for hostels/hospitals etc. All houses, hostels and kitchens must have solar water heaters. [http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Centre-Invites-Applications-for-Green-Campuses/2016/03/12/article3322935.ece Read more...]
   
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:UN_Habitat_Water_Booklet_V2.pdf|A Practical Method for Rapid Assessment of the Bacterial Quality of Water]] - ''United Nations Human Settlements Programme''
[[File:16-brick_rocket_stove_Mexico_2012.jpg|thumb|Sixteen-brick [[Rocket Stove]]]]
 
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Sudan_2006_muna_rizi.pdf|Cooking in a semi-rural area in Sudan, A case study in al-Sororab]] - ''Muna Rizig and Ben Croxford
*'''Students flood southern Mexico integrated cooking class - '''Volunteers from the [[Rotary Club of Fresno]], California, led by [[Wilfred and Marie Pimentel]], teamed up with the Rotary Club of Tapachula Centenario, [[Mexico]], to host a five-day [[Integrated Cooking Method|integrated cooking]] workshop in Tapachula. This is the tenth grant project completed in Mexico by the Rotary Club of Fresno. Although only twenty students were expected to attend, ninety-one arrived on opening day to participate—a clear indication of the desperate need for affordable fuel-saving cooking devices in this region. Local instructors and expert solar cooks from Torreon and Oaxaca led the workshop. Participants learned to build three types of [[rocket stoves]]: mud and chopped grass, five gallon tin can, and sixteen brick, which were used to make tortillas. Students cut out cardboard sheets and glued them to pieces of aluminum foil to make solar panel [[CooKit]]s. A variety of meat, vegetable and egg dishes were prepared with the CooKits along with desserts like pineapple upside down cake. Students also learned how to use [[WAPI]]’s to [[pasteurize water]] with a CooKit. Finally, the instructors showed their ninety-one students how easy it is to make a [[retained heat cooker]] with a pillowcases and crumpled newspaper stuffed into a woven basket. [[Media:Tapachula Centenario - Fresno Rotary 2012.pdf|Read more...]]
 
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*'''Audio:''' [http://www.solargourmet.de/?p=4509 Janak McGilligan is interviewed on the Sunpod podcast]
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{{Section|February 2016}}
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:ソーラークッカー・エコ学習会:みかさこども園|Solar Cookers Eco-learning Board: Mikasa Childrens Garden - Japan]]
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*'''Conference RFP:''' [[Solar Cookers International]] is organizing the next solar cooking conference to take place at the Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, Vadodara, {{State|Gujarat}}, [[India]] 16-22 January, 2017 (tentative). Topics to be addressed include: solar cooking, [[solar food processing]], energy policy, and solar thermal industrial applications. Conference participants may submit an abstract and/or nominate a conference theme or speaker. Travel funding applicants must submit a Travel Funding Application accompanied by an abstract to [mailto:events@solarcookers.org events@solarcookers.org] before April 29, 2016. [http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/events/conference-2017 More information...]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:University_of_Illinois_Stored_Solar_Thermal_Update_February_2016.pdf|Portable Stored Solar Thermal Energy for Household Use]] - ''University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sun Buckets, Inc.''
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*'''Newsletter:''' [[Media:Kathy_Dahl-Bredine_-_Nwslt.Jan.-Feb_2016.pdf|Kathy and Phil Bredine's January-February 2016 Newsletter]]
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*'''Document:''' Extension of Shelf Life of Fruits and Vegetables by Solar Thermal Drying with High Solar Fraction in Temperate Climates]] - ''Sonnenobst''
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*'''Document:''' GIZ ten conditions for successful solar cooking adoption - ''Dorthea Otremba (GIZ)''
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*'''Annual Report:''' [[Media:Bethel_Business_and_Community_Development_Centre_Annual-Review-2015.pdf|Bethel Business and Community Development Center Annual Report for 2015]]
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*'''Construction plans:''' [[T-188 Parabolic Trough Baking Device]]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Handbook-on-solar-drying_-_Planters_Energy_Network.pdf|Handbook on Solar Drying]] - ''[[Planters Energy Network]]''
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*'''Event:''' April 14-16, 2016: (Piracicaba-SP, [[Brazil]]) There will be a free sustainability event at the Marquis House covering municipal and corporate sustainability, social technologies, and sustainable buildings. [https://www.facebook.com/events/1135638286448865/ More information...]
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*'''Book:''' [http://www.energysaversthatwork.com Energy Savers that Work]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.thewhig.com/2016/02/18/solar-ovens-help-fuel-future Solar ovens help fuel future] - ''The Whig''
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Solar_oven_partners_newsletter_02-16.pdf|Solar Oven Partners February 2016 newsletter]]
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*'''Conference presentation:''' Solar cooking in south Brazil: dissemination and barriers - ''Elmo Dutra''
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2016/02/16/bringing-the-heat/ Bringing the heat] - ''Lethbridge Herald''
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Liking_Energy_Co_catalog_2016.pdf|Liking Energy Company Catalog 2016]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://indian-voice.in/2016/01/a-culinary-date-with-the-sun-on-sankranti/ A culinary date with the sun on Sankranti] - ''Indian Voice''
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*'''Event:''' February 22, 24 2016 (Online): Advancing Cookstove Research and Design: As part of the U.S. Government support for the [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves]], the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) awarded $10 million in grants for research aimed at addressing technical barriers to the development of low emission, high efficiency cookstoves through activities in areas such as combustion, heat transfer and materials development. Join the free webinar for a two-part series on Monday, February 22 and Wednesday, February 24 at 10:00am EST (14:00 – 15:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)),for an update on the U.S. DOE projects. There is no charge for the webinar but registration is required. [https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5021125829407735810 Register Part One, 2/22] [https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4461075288148953602 Register Part Two, 2/24] More information at: [mailto:moderator@cookstovesandindoorair.org moderator@cookstovesandindoorair.org ]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/solarama-la-start-up-qui-veut-convertir-le-maroc-aux-cuiseurs-solaires.N358565 Solarama : la start-up qui veut convertir le Maroc aux cuiseurs solaires] - ''L'usine Nouvelle''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Scheffler-Spiegel|Wolfgang Scheffler erläutert auf der Konferenz "Solarenergie für Afrika 2010" in Düsseldorf die Funktionsweise des von ihm erfundenen solaren "Scheffler-Spiegels".]]
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*'''Annual Report:''' [[Media:Annual_Report_SCI_2015.pdf|Solar Cookers International releases its Annual Report for 2015]]
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://theboatgalley.com/thermos-nissan-thermal-cooker/ Thermos Nissan Thermal Cooker] - ''The Boat Galley''
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Modified CooKit Solar Cooker|Teong Tan CooKit variation]]
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*'''Document:''' [[Media:Firewood_Consumption_and_CO2_Saving_-_Dieter_Seifert_2015b.pdf|Spreadsheet showing efficiency comparisons of the Ben 2 and Ben 3 Firewood Stoves against other stoves]] (See also: [[Ben 2 and Ben 3 Firewood Stoves]])
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*'''Event:''' Sunday, February 17, 2016 (Kalwa, Thane, India): Enviro Vigil (Paryavaran Dakshata Manch) will conduct a one day cooking workshop with solar cookers. 10:30am-12:30pm at Ankur Theme park, TMC's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital campus. Participants will have the opportunity for hands-on training with several types of solar cookers. [http://www.iamin.in/en/thane/news/workshop-will-teach-you-howto-cook-solar-cooker-thane-84115 More information...]
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*'''Request for proposals:''' The [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves]] (GACC) is accepting proposals for the design and implementation of behavior change communication (BCC) interventions to accelerate market growth and drive adoption of clean and efficient cookstoves and fuels in households. All Alliance partners are eligible to apply, however implementation is limited to the following Alliance focus countries: [[Bangladesh]], [[Ghana]], [[Guatemala]], [[Kenya]], [[Nigeria]], and [[Uganda]]. Deadlines: February 16, 2016 (Letters of Intent), March 15, 2016 (Final Applications) [[Media:RFP_for_Clean_Cooking_BCC_Fund_-_Global_Alliance_-_for_release_Feb_1_2016.pdf|Request for Proposals – Clean Cooking Behavior Change Communication Fund]]
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*'''New manufacturer:''' [[Togo Tilé]] (Mali)
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*'''Newsletter:''' [[Media:Solar Cooking the Netherlands - KoZon newsletter Newsletter 2015.pdf|Solar Cooking the Netherlands - KoZon (December 2015)]]
   
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{{Section|January 2016}}
*'''Deutsche Welle covers the work of [[ADES]] in [[Madagascar]]'''
 
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*'''Event:''' April 7-9, 2016: (Nairobi, Kenya) The SME Expo 2016 will take place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Companies looking to do business in Africa will have the opportunity to be front and center with pre-screened African buyers, sales representatives, and potential business partners. [http://www.smexpo.co.ke More information and registration information...]
:[[File:Solar Cookers - Saving Madagascar's Forests Global 3000|thumb|400px|none|thumb|Deutsche Welle covers the work of [[ADES]] in [[Madagascar]]]]
 
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:The man who cooks with the sun-0|The Palestinian man who cooks with the sun]]
 
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*'''New NGO:''' [[Baja Arizona]]
==April 2012==
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21688447-bold-experiment-has-improved-delhis-air-indians-want-more-particular-about-particulates?platform=hootsuite Particular about particulates] - ''The Economist''
* '''Solar Cookers World Network Facebook group reaches 500 members''' - [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16213904406 Join the discussion].
 
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Create and Update Your Own www.solarcooking.org Page|How to create and update your own wiki page]]
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.ultimocero.com/articulo/cocinas-solares-clubs-lectura-y-escuela-bienestar|Cocinas solares, clubs de lectura y una Escuela de Bienestar|ÚltimoCero}}
[[File:Making Solar Cookers and more in Vietnam (Danang) .wmv|260px|right]]
 
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*''' New NGO:''' [[Imani Women's Group]]
*'''Alternative energy organization in Vietnam enthusiastically promotes solar cooking''' - [[Vietnam Solar Serve]] has provided a recent video tour of their production facility in Da Nang, [[Vietnam]]. The resourceful group has been adapting solar cooker designs from other countries and developing their own solar energy products since 2000. Looking at the larger alternative energy picture, they also promote photovoltaic panels made in Vietnam and are working on designs for water and wind power turbines. They manufacture a variety of [[parabolic solar cooker|parabolic]] and [[Solar box cookers|box]] solar cookers.
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Solar-oven-building-workshop-for-women/articleshow/50586354.cms Solar oven building workshop for women] - ''The Times of India''
 
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*'''Video:''' [[:File:Sunited Présentation en 3mn COP21 Paris décembre 2015|Sunited Présentation en 3mn COP21 Paris décembre 2015]]
==March 2012==
 
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*''' Solar cooker design:''' [[EB800D Solar Cooker]]
[[File:Golden_Temple,_Punjab,_India_3-19-12.jpg|250px|thumb|Golden Temple, Punjab, [[India]]]]
 
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*'''Event:''' April 16-17, 2016: (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) The Global Health Innovation Conference will be taking place at Yale University. Billed as the world's leading and largest health conference, it is a crossroads for health care issues and social entrepreneurship. Solar cooking is becoming increasingly recognized as part of the solution for respiratory diseases, aside from the environmental benefits. This is another venue where that voice can be heard. [http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/ More information...]
*'''Solar cooking set to help preserve the Golden Temple in Punjab, India''' - To save the Golden Temple from the ill effects of pollution, the [http://www.peda.gov.in/eng/index.html Punjab Energy Development Agency] (PEDA) is developing a plan to prepare a daily meal of Langar dal with the help of a [[Scheffler Community Kitchen|solar steam cooking system]]. PEDA is the governmental agency promoting renewable energy within {{state|Punjab}}, [[India]]. To prepare Langar dal for 50,000 to 60,000 devotees daily at the Golden Temple requires one ton (909 kg) of dal to be cooked. A recent study has shown cooking dal with the help of steam will save at least 25 LPG cylinders per day and also reduce the effects of air pollution on the Golden Temple. PEDA chairman Manjeet Singh said that PEDA would bear the entire project cost. {{FeaturedProjects}}
 
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*'''Solar cooker design:''' [[EB Suncooker]]
 
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*''' Solar cooker design:''' [[Hypar Solar Cooker]]
*'''China and India lead the world in large scale solar cooking projects''' - [[Dar Curtis]] of [[Solar Household Energy]] recently researched where large scale solar cooking projects are happening around the world. The projects in African [[refugee camps]] are fairly well known, but institutional projects and the high-use of solar cookers is happening primarily in Asia. The [[Clean Development Mechanism]] (CDM) has registered eight solar cooker projects in [[China]] since 2009. A total of 207,000 [[parabolic solar cooker]]s have been distributed, serving 848,000 people. In [[India]], CDM registered a Gold Standard project in 2006. The [[Gadhia Solar]] company has created [[Institutional solar cooking|institutional kitchens]] with arrays of large [[Parabolic solar reflectors|parabolic solar concentrators]] to generate steam. Such an installation at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, can produce meals for 38,500 pilgrims per day. Read more from his well-documented report. [[Media:Solar_In_Asia_Curtis_2012.pdf|Some Big Solar Cooking Projects in Asia, December 2011]]
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/09/10-of-the-coolest-gadgets-we-saw-at-ces-2016/ 10 Of The Coolest Gadgets We Saw At CES 2016] - ''TechCrunch''
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/07/the-gosun-stove-cooks-with-just-the-power-of-the-sun/ The GoSun Stove Cooks With Just The Power Of The Sun] - ''TechCrunch''
[[Image:Solar_Oven_Partners_March_2008_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Five {{state|South Dakota}} State University football players volunteered to help [[Haiti Solar Oven Partners]] load a container with 1000 unassembled solar box cookers destined for Haiti.]]
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/solar-power-solvatten-em5275/ Solar Power And Solvatten Saving Lives] - ''Energy Matters''
*'''South Dakota, USA nonprofit has delivered thousands of solar cookers to Haiti''' - [[Haiti Solar Oven Partners]] passed a milestone this spring by delivering another 1000 solar cookers as part of the relief effort resulting from the 2010 earthquake. This brings the total number of cookers they have taken to [[Haiti]] to over 5000. They had begun having solar cooking workshops in the country before the earthquake and have since stepped up their efforts. Currently, they are conducting an evaluation of their Haiti projects. {{FeaturedProjects}}
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://ulsterherald.com/2016/01/09/pupils-sail-to-science-final-after-creating-innovative/ Pupils set for science final after innovative creation] - ''Ulster Herald''
*'''Global conservation gathering is approached with the solar cooking option''' - The [http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org IUCN World Conservation Congress] is the world’s largest conservation event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development. It will take place from September 6-15, 2012 in Jeju, [[South Korea|Republic of Korea]]. Leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and social organizations will discuss, debate and decide solutions for the world’s most pressing environment and development issues. The upcoming Congress has been approached by [[Solar Household Energy]] to present the case for solar cooking. Read more of their [http://portals.iucn.org/2012forum/?q=0494 proposal].
 
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*'''Handbook:''' [[Media:Its_Time_to_be_Efficient_-_NaDEET_2015.pdf|NaDEET's manual showing how to build all sorts of energy-saving devices including a solar cooker and a fuel-efficient woodstove]] (English and Afrikaans) - ''[[Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust]]''
*'''Solar Cooker Review''' - The March 2012 issue is now [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scr_pdfs/scr_feb12.pdf available online].
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://news.mit.edu/2016/store-solar-heat-0107 A new way to store solar heat] - ''MIT News''
*'''Spanish cooperative finds common ground promoting solar cooking''' - [[Sol Solidari]] was formed in 2008 by environmental and sanitation practitioners in [[Spain]] wanting to combine their expertise to help primarily rural countries in Africa. Most of their activity has centered on the promotion of solar cooking. Whenever is possible, the cookers are locally manufactured, and workshops on their use are carried out with the help of local leaders. Initially the cookers are distributed for free to create better exposure among the villagers. In the second phase, the solar cookers are sold, but mostly subsidized by Sol Solidari. Until now, the projects have taken place in [[Ethiopia]] and [[Mali]], but future plans include [[Cameroon]] and [[South Africa]].
 
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*'''Video:''' [http://techcrunch.com/video/gosun-solar-stove-gets-cooking/519387124/ GoSun Solar Stove Gets Cooking] - ''TechCrunch''
[[File:Sol Solidari panaramic workshop, 2-25-12.jpg|650px|thumb|center|[[Sol Solidari]] solar cooking workshop]]
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/05/ces-hottest-gadgets-and-trends.html The hottest trends and gadgets at this year's CES] - ''CNBC''
 
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*'''Article in the media:''' [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Lesotho#Articles_in_the_media Solar cookers on their way] - ''Gulf Islands Driftwood''
==February 2012==
 
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*'''Manufacturer:''' [[Liking Energy Co., Ltd]]
[[File:Sun2Cook_3,_1-25-12.jpg|thumb|225px|The [[Sun2Cook]] solar panel cooker]]
 
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*'''Manufacturer:''' [[Solar Oven Reflectors]]
*'''The Sun2Cook is a simple solar panel cooker''' - The [[Sun2Cook]], was designed by [[Heinz-Joachim Muller|Heinz-Joachim (Jo) Muller]]. The [[solar panel cooker]] takes shape from a single rectangular sheet of polypropylene sheet (core flute). With a few cuts and simple folds it is ready to cook. The steep back of the cooker makes it a good choice to take advantage of morning and late-day sunshine.
 
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*''' Solar cooker design:''' [[Sun Dome Solar Oven and Cooker]]
 
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*'''Solar cooker design:''' [[Shady Spot Solar Cooker]]
*[[Patricia McArdle]] attended a workshop dealing with the construction and proper alignment techniques for [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]]s in Dhule, India: [[Media:Solar Cooking Workshop Dhule 2012 .pdf|Read her report]].
 
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[[File:GAM_6991.jpg|thumb|225px|The [[All Season Solar Cooker]] captures the first morning sun.]]
 
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[[Category:News archives]]
*'''The versatile All Seasons Solar Cooker cooks year-round '''- The [[All Season Solar Cooker]] is featured this month as a [[Solar panel cookers|solar panel cooker]] whose key feature is its adjustable, coordinated reflector array. The advantage of the ASSC is that it can efficiently capture the earliest morning sun, to begin cooking far earlier, and later, in the day than most other designs. The cooking pot maintains a level position regardless of cooker orientation. It also folds into a flat package that is easy to transport and ship. Visit the cooker article for plans that can be downloaded for free from designer [[Jim La Joie]]. SCI tests showed that bread could be baked easily in Seattle (47° N latitude) on February 3rd.
 
==January 2012==
 
[[File:K14_totalb.jpg|thumb|200px|[[AlSol 1.4]] parabolic solar cooker donated by [[ACCESO]].]]
 
*'''Spanish solar cooking promoter offers to donate cookers to other groups''' - [[ACCESO]] director, [[René Bijloo]], has made the generous offer to donate up to thirty [[AlSol 1.4]] [[parabolic solar cooker]]s to any non-profit humanitarian project providing solar energy options for rural areas around the world. Contact [[René Bijloo]] with detailed information about your program.
 
 
*'''Private equity firm invests over $11 million USD in Gadhia Solar''' - Private equity firm Zephyr Peacock has reportedly invested $11,000,000 USD in Mumbai-based [[Gadhia Solar]] in [[India]].. The solar energy company provides energy solutions by using parabolic concentrated technology and has implemented some of the world’s largest solar thermal systems during the past two decades. [http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/zephyr-peacock-invests-up-to-rs-50cr-in-gadhia-solar Read more...]
 
 
*'''Jewish World Watch provides substantial grant for the Farchana Refugee Camp''' - [[Jewish World Watch]] has provided a grant of $200,000 USD to the UK NGO [[Cord]] to provide [[CooKit]]s to refugees at the [[Farchana Refugee Camp]] in [[Chad]]. This new project brings the number of [[refugee camps]] where solar cooking projects are underway to ten. [http://goo.gl/p5g14 Read more...] {{FeaturedProjects}}
 
 
[[File:Copenhagen_Solar_Cooker_Light,_Teong_Tan_variation.jpg|thumb|225px|[[Teong Tan]] variation of the [[Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]]]]
 
*'''Featured solar panel cooker receives attention, and a suggestion''' - The [[Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]] was featured here this past November, and [[Teong Tan]], an active participant in the Network, has suggested an alternate plate base design, which will shorten the assembly time and not require any bolts. His design for the base uses two sandwiched pieces of cardboard sewn together, creating sleeves for the reflector corners to slip into. [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120103160123/solarcooking/images/7/78/Copenhagen_Solar_Cooker_Light_-_Alternate_Base.pdf Alternate Base Plate for the Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]
 
 
*'''Indian Government budgets six hundred million dollars for solar cooking!''' - [[Ajay Chandak]] of [[Prince India]] reports that in the Indian government's latest five year plan, 30 billion INR (approx. $600 million USD) is budgeted for solar cooking in 500,000 schools across [[India]]. This will not only help in saving the environment, but it will expose millions of school children to solar cooking and build the confidence that these systems work. For more information on solar cooking in India, {{See|India}}.
 
 
==December 2011==
 
[[File:IMG_2656.jpg|thumb|256px|[[SolarCooker Eco3]] solar cookers are distributed in [[Senegal]]]]
 
*'''Solar Cooking NV and Sol Suffit ship 630 solar cookers to Senegal''' - The project is a joint venture between [[Solar Cooking NV]] in the [[Netherlands]], and [[Sol Suffit]], a long time promoter of solar cooking in [[Senegal]]. The [[SolarCooker Eco3]] cookers will be introduced in Dakar and in eight villages next to Djoudj National Park. Local volunteers participated in workshops, and will be training others in the surrounding villages. Trainees were also made familiar with the method of [[Heat-retention cooking|heat retention cooking]]. They found it quite easy to make good quality hay baskets with inexpensive baskets(locally made) and empty rice bags filled with dry hay.
 
[[File:Sun-Funnel_photo,_12-11.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Sun-Funnel]] panel cooker]]
 
*'''A simple panel cooker makes advances in design''' - The [[Sun-Funnel]] cooker, designed by [[Teong Tan]], is similar to the [[Fun-Panel]] cooker, but with a different panel fold. The intent is to have a panel cooker that will be strong enough to support a cooking pot when the cooker is tipped back for better orientation to the sun. It also uses a stick placed through the cooker base to allow the pot to remain level while cooking.
 
 
==November 2011==
 
[[File:Copenhagen_Solar_Cooker_variations_11-11.jpg_.jpg|thumb|250px|Variations in ways to configure the [[Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]].]]
 
[[File:Copenhagen_Solar_Cooker_Light_018.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]] prior to final assembly.]]
 
*'''Small, compact, and inexpensive solar panel cooker''' - The [[Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light]] is featured as an example of a nicely conceived [[solar panel cooker]]. It is flexible in it's design, as well as in the number of ways it can be configured. The components include a flat base plate, which flexible reflective panels are bolted to. Then using simple clamps, the cooker can be configured with a low open front and high back, or with more vertical sides for cooking when the sun is directly overhead. The designer, [[Sharon Clausson]], states that the curved shape of the cooker is more stable than typical panel cookers in windy conditions.
 
*'''Patent landscape report on solar cooking''' - The World Intellectual Property Organization commissioned an extensive report on the state of solar cooking, prepared by Scope e-Knowledge Center Private Limited based in [[India]]. The report validates the viability of solar cooking, a technology well-suited for a growing portion of the world's population. It also provides a number of examples of various designs that have applied for patents. [http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/patentscope/en/programs/patent_landscapes/reports/documents/final_solar_cooking_scope_website_version.pdf Read the report].
 
 
*'''Celebrity chef [[José Andrés]] makes an impassioned plea for improved cookstoves and solar cookers to benefit the world's poor.'''
 
 
:[[Video:TEDxWashingtonCircle - José Andrés - FOOD & COMMUNICATION Recipes for Development|none|400px]]
 
 
==October 2011==
 
 
[[File:Ted_logo.gif|right|250px]]
 
*'''TED Talks on solar cooking''' - [[Louise Meyer]] was joined by [[José Andrés]] and Marcela Valladolid for a TEDx WashingtonCircle presentation titled '''Food & Communication: Recipes for Development'''. Louise Meyer is a founding director of [[Solar Household Energy]], and a tireless and inspirational advocate of solar cooking technology. She has taught solar cooking in the [[refugee camps]] of East Africa and in villages from [[Zimbabwe]] to [[Mexico]]. José Andrés is an award-winning chef and restauranteur, who has made a substantial commitment of his time and resources to provide access to solar cooking in [[Haiti]]. The event was open to the public, and took place at the International Food Policy Research institute. You can watch the [http://tedxwashingtoncircle.com/tedxwashingtoncircle/2011-speaker-videos/ on-demand broadcast here].
 
 
[[Image:Bolivia-Inti_blue_box_cookers_cropped.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil]] solar cooker construction workshop]]
 
*''' Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil reports a decade of success''' - [[Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil]] reports they have distributed more than 20,000 ecological appliances since 2000. From these 20,000, 14,000 have been solar cookers, mainly distributed in the South American countries of [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]], and [[Argentina]]. Additionally, 5,000 [[Rocket Stove]]s were distributed in the African countries of [[Benin]], [[Chad]], and [[Guinea]], as well as to the South American countries. Besides solar cookers and stoves, they have also provided [[Heat-retention cooking|fireless cookers]], [[Solar food drying|solar food dryers]] and solar showers. On November 5, 2011, the organization is sponsoring a national conference addressing deforestation in Africa to be held in their hometown of Nantes, [[France]]. [http://www.boliviainti-sudsoleil.org Registration and program information.] {{FeaturedProjects}}
 
 
* '''Solar Cookers World Network Facebook group reaches 400 members''' - [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16213904406 Join the discussion].
 
 
[[File:Solvatten.jpg|thumb|149px|[[Solvatten]] water pasteurization system]]
 
*'''Water pasteurization system changes community health in Kenyan village''' - [[Solvatten]] is a compact, portable solar [[water pasteurization]] appliance about the size of a small suitcase. A recent follow-up study of new users in the Bungoma district in western [[Kenya]] showed a marked improvement in family health and student attendance. Before Solvatten use, 67% of the children in the families had irregular attendance at school as a result of being sick, often with waterborne diseases. After purchasing Solvatten the overall attendance of children at school has increased by an average of 87 percent, as stated by the parents. Before using the system the typical family had someone ill three to four times per month, and that has changed to only .03 times per month. Since waterborne diseases have all but disappeared, people are saving money on medicines and medical services.
 
 
*The [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scr_pdfs/scr_oct11.pdf October 2011 issue] of [[Solar Cooker Review]] is now available online. You can also [http://www.solarcookers.org/green subscribe] to receive this newsletter electronically.
 
 
*[[Media:The Case for Solar Thermal Cooking.pdf|The Case for Solar Thermal Cooking: Free Fuel—Zero Emissions]] - ''[[Patricia McArdle]]''
 
 
==September 2011==
 
* '''Solar water pasteurization research study results now available online''' - [http://www.solvatten.se/documents/SROI.pdf Social Return on Investment (SROI), the value added for families before and after using SOLVATTEN in the Bungoma district in western Kenya]
 
 
==August 2011==
 
*'''The Spendid Table radio show interviews SCI Board Member Patricia McArdle''' - [http://tinyurl.com/3qsmj8j Listen to Patricia discussing solar cooking in Afghanistan].
 
 
[[File:Wilson_solar_grill,_8-11.jpg|thumb|300px|Wilson solar grill uses latent [[heat storage]] to cook after sunset.]]
 
*'''New solar grill uses latent heat storage''' - Students at MIT are working on a case study for a new type of solar powered outdoor grill. Based on the technology from MIT professor [[David Wilson]], this grill will collect thermal energy from the sun and store it to allow cooking times for up to twenty-five hours at temperatures above 230°C (450°F). Wilson’s technology uses a [[Fresnel solar reflector]] to harness the sun’s energy to melt down a container of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nitrate lithium nitrate]. The lithium nitrate serves as a solar battery. Due to its phase change reaction, the thermal energy is able to be stored for longer periods of time and at higher temperatures, by means of latent [[heat storage]]. Heat is then redistributed through convection, which allows for outdoor cooking. [http://barbequelovers.com/grills/a-solar-grill-prototype-for-a-greener-tomorrow A Solar Grill Prototype for a Greener Tomorrow] - ''BarbequeLovers.com''
 
 
==July 2011==
 
*'''Solar ovens, renewable energy offer hope for Afghanistan (Reuters)''' - At first, she noticed Afghan children hauling brush. Then, in Afghan family compounds, she noticed women tending small fires and trying to cook over them. But it wasn't until U.S. diplomat [and [[Solar Cookers International]] Board Member] [[Patricia McArdle]] realized how often it was sunny in Afghanistan that she put it together with a youthful memory of cooking with solar ovens and realized this was a low-tech option offering long-term hope to the war-torn nation, which is preparing for a draw-down of U.S. troops. At first, she noticed Afghan children hauling brush. Then, in Afghan family compounds, she noticed women tending small fires and trying to cook over them. But it wasn't until U.S. diplomat Patricia McArdle realized how often it was sunny in Afghanistan that she put it together with a youthful memory of cooking with solar ovens and realized this was a low-tech option offering long-term hope to the war-torn nation, which is preparing for a draw-down of U.S. troops. [http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/books-afghanistan-energy-idUSL3E7IC0T820110719 Read more...]
 
 
*'''July 2011 - June 2012: International opportunity for testing solar cooker designs''' - Originally announced as a one-time event Oct. 11-13, 2011 with a related conference, the solar cooker competition has been cancelled, and instead there will be a year-long opportunity for having solar cookers and fuel stoves tested free. India’s [[Promoters and Researchers in Non-Conventional Energy]] (PRINCE) group has updated standards for solar cookers, developed in conjunction with input from [[Members|SCWNet members]]. These universal testing standards will be used to evaluate the cookers by simulating real world conditions. Designers, manufacturers, NGOs and individuals are invited to submit solar cookers for [[testing]], and need not be present for the tests. While there will be no cash prizes, solar cookers will be rated on thermal performance, cost of manufacture and transport, and user convenience. Send cookers anytime between now and June 2012 to: Prof. [[Ajay Chandak]], PRINCE, Shamgiri, Opp Swagat Lodge, Agra Road, Deopur, Dhuli – 424005, Maharashtra, India. Include your usual instructions for consumers. If you wish your cooker returned, please arrange to cover return shipping costs. After testing, entrants will be contacted with results, and have the option of omitting their information in the publicly listed ratings. No reply from entrants within two weeks or so after receiving their results will be taken as consent to publish. Other questions? Email: [mailto:renewable.india@gmail.com renewable.india@gmail.com].
 
[[File:Dar_al_Noor_Mosque_demonstration_7-11.jpg|thumb|300px|Sampling solar cooked lentils, rice, potatoes, eggs, mixed vegetables, dahl, popcorn, tea, and for dessert, chocolate, yellow, lemon and spice cakes at the Dar al Noor Mosque, July 2011.]]
 
*'''July 2011: Solar cooking expo at northern Virginia mosque''' - Solar cooking in Islamic countries is on the rise, but its wide-spread acceptance as a significant way to reduce the damage caused by smoky cooking fires will need greater support from the international development community. [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI) board member [[Patricia McArdle]] and [[Afzal Syed]] of the Dar al Noor Mosque congregation contributed to this goal by hosting a well-attended solar cooking demonstration at Syed's mosque in Manassas, Virginia on Saturday July 9. [[Solar Household Energy]] (SHE) co-founder [[Louise Meyer]] and two SHE volunteers from Washington DC also participated in this event. A popular DC radio show interview with McArdle about her novel [[Farishta]] two days before the event, drew large crowds from around the northern Virginia/DC metro region.
 
 
[[Video:TAHA CHAMCHIHA Solar Cooking in the Sahel|thumb|300px|TAHA CHAMCHIHA Solar Cooking in the Sahel]]
 
*'''Solar Cooking in the Sahel''' - A Goedhart Film production, TAHA CHAMCHIHA Solar Cooking in the Sahel, documents daily life for the Sudanese refugees living in camps in bordering [[Chad]]. [[Tchad Solaire]] has trained over 12,000 women in the use of simple [[solar panel cooker]]s. These [[CooKits]] have provided the women additional free time normally spent searching for scarce [[firewood]]. Within each camp there is a workshop center where cookers are made for distribution to the other residents. Though the cookers are somewhat fragile, the women have appreciated being involved with the process of making the simple CooKits. The film also shows how the companion ''Guffah'' [[heat-retention cooker]] baskets are being assembled to use with the panel cookers to keep the food piping hot for dinner, served in the early evening.
 
 
[[File:Global_Resource_Alliance_outside-_Kenya_-_October_2008.jpg|thumb|250px|A [[Global Resource Alliance]] workshop in [[Tanzania]]]]
 
* '''Global Resource Alliance receives generous grant from the Ferguson Foundation''' - The [[Global Resource Alliance]] will use this grant to offer 50 solar cooking workshops in the Mara Region of [[Tanzania]] and over 1,000 subsidized solar [[CooKit]]s. This, in addition to a grant from [http://www.weforest.org/ WeForest] and Deliotte Belgium to plant 130,000 trees over the next two years, will help restore this heavily deforested area and prevent many health problems and deaths related to [[smoke inhalation]].
 
 
*'''United Nations report predicts growth in renewable energies based on the success of small-scale projects.''' - "The rapid growth of small-scale renewable energy applications in developing countries should underpin the continued expansion of the global renewables sector, despite a slump in investment levels at the start of this year. That is the view of Professor Ulf Moslener of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, the academic body that produced today's United Nations Environmental Programme report into green energy investments, who predicted that unconventional renewable energy technologies such as systems designed for cooking and [[Solar food processing|food processing]] will drive future investment in the sector." - ''Business Green'' ([http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2086607/solar-cooking-heat-asias-green-energy-sector Read more...])
 
 
==June 2011==
 
*'''Heat storage offers the possibility of solar cooking even when the sun isn't shining''' - Research is underway around the world using high-tech and low-tech means to accumulate heat during the day for cooking at night or early in the morning. See our article on [[Heat storage]] for more information.
 
 
*'''Voice of America interviews Patricia McArdle about her novel ''Farishta''''' - [[Solar Cookers International]] board-member [[Patricia McArdle]] discusses her award-winning novel in which solar cooking in Afghanistan is featured. Audio available [http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/arts/US-Womans-Afghan-Experience-Inspires-Novel-124293344.html here].
 
 
*'''Solar Cookers International is now an official Partner in the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves''' - [[Solar Cookers International|SCI]] is delighted to be working with the [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves|Global Alliance]] on its goal of enabling 100 million households to adopt clean and efficient cooking solutions.
 
 
*'''United Nations seeks public input on solar cooking''' - The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is asking for public input on methodological issues for solar cooking projects under the [[Clean Development Mechanism]]. Input is welcome from June 3 until July 3, 2011. Log in and give your input on [http://cdm.unfccc.int/public_inputs/2011/ssc_solar_meth/index.html this page of the UNFCCC site].
 
 
[[File:Farishta,_a_novel.jpg|right|130px]]
 
*'''Listen to NPR’s Scott Simon interview SCI Board Member Patricia McArdle''' - [http://www.npr.org/2011/06/04/136928898/farishta-afghan-fiction-from-the-foreign-service Audio here]. The newly released novel ''[[Farishta]]'' by [[Solar Cookers International]] Board Member [[Patricia McArdle]] tells the compelling story of diplomat Angela Morgan. Stationed at a remote British Army outpost in northern [[Afghanistan]], Angela becomes frustrated at her inability to contribute to the country’s reconstruction. Slipping away disguised in a ''burka'' to provide aid to refugees, Angela becomes their ''farishta''—or "angel" in the local Dari language—and discovers a new purpose for her life. Farishta draws on the author’s experience as a diplomat in Afghanistan and her commitment to solar cooking. The importance and practicality of solar cooking is woven into the novel as Angela shares it with the local population. You can purchase ''Farishta'' at your local bookstore or [http://www.amazon.com/Farishta-Patricia-McArdle/dp/1594487960/ref=dp_return_2?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books online]. You can also [http://audio.cbsradionewsfeed.com/2011/06/02/14/RavivCBSNEWSINTERVIEWS-McArdlePatriciaFARISHTAnovelaboutAfghanistan1430_1801_1807480.mp3 listen to a recent interview] that Patricia McArdle did with CBS News.
 
 
*'''Solar cooker and low-emission fuel stove innovation workshop this July in Oregon, USA''' - [[Solar Cookers International]] is proud to partner with the [[Aprovecho Research Center]] and join their Summer Stove Camp "Fuels of the Future" on the grounds of Aprovecho Labs in Cottage Grove, {{state|Oregon}}, [[USA]]. Those committed to improving the use of fuel for cooking will gather to spend one week learning, innovating, and creating improved designs and prototypes.
 
 
==May 2011==
 
[[File:Solar_Trade_Fair_in_Totogalpa,_Nicaragua_5-11.jpg..jpg|thumb|300px|right|Women participants at the Solar Trade Fair in Totogalpa, [[Nicaragua]].]]
 
*'''Women excel at the Solar Trade Fair in Totogalpa, Nicaragua''' - Twelve women participated in a program where they first, constructed [[solar box cooker]]s under the direction from the [[Solar Women of Totogalpa]] in [[Nicaragua]], and then set about to create their favorite recipes, which they demonstrated with their new ovens in a cook-off at the Solar Trade Fair. [[Mauro Perez]], a member and only man in the Women's Association is working on the project to develop solar equipment use. In addition to solar cookers, the association constructs solar energy panels and equipment for homes and farms. The group also sponsors international university students to come to the workshop and participate in the construction programs. Perez also reported to have received support from a United Nations program for the construction of infrastructure at the workshop.
 
 
[[File:SHE_HotPot_in_Gaga_camp.jpg|thumb|290px|One of the fifty women who received [[SHE]] training with a [[HotPot]] cooker in [[Chad]]. Note that this model is 1/3 larger then the standard HotPot.]]
 
*'''SHE actively promotes solar cooking in East Africa and Latin America''' - [[Solar Household Energy]] (SHE) was commissioned to test acceptance of the [[HotPot]] solar oven in the [[Gaga Refugee Camp]] in eastern [[Chad]]. It shelters 20,000 people from [[Darfur]] in Western [[Sudan]]. [[Patrick Fourrier]], a French solar cooking expert affiliated with [[Bolivia Inti Sud Soleil]], completed the first phase of the project last month. He will also ensure that local support systems set in place to encourage continued use of the solar ovens are working effectively. Meanwhile, SHE has begun a cooperative relationship with [[Grupo Jaragua]], a highly respected non-governmental organization in the [[Dominican Republic]], to support a solar cooking initiative. Grupo Jaragua is aided by a Dominican eco-tourism and solar cooking advocate [[El Fuego del Sol]], which conducts the local assembly and subsidized sale of [[Sun Oven]] box cookers in rural communities near the Haitian border. They are also supporting [[The Nature Conservancy]]’s office in the Dominican Republic to add the [[integrated cooking method]] as a component of their reforestation project in [[Haiti]], and working to expand the solar cooking promotion efforts it undertook in [[Mexico]] with the [[Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature]] (FMCN) begun in 2004. On the public education front, SHE founding director [[Dar Curtis]] is participating as a contributing member of the Technology and Fuels Working Group of the [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves]]. This alliance of governments, corporations and non-profits is promoting cleaner cooking solutions than the open cooking fires and inefficient cookstoves used by three billion people around the world. Read more in the [[Media:SHE_update_spring_2011.pdf|SHE spring update 2011]].
 
 
[[File:Lapin_Kulta_Solar_staff.jpg|300px|right]]
 
*'''Traveling solar restaurant to visit European cities this summer''' - The [[Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant]] aims to follow the sun through Europe the summer of 2011, visiting several cities where it will present an extraordinary culinary concept. Joining forces to bring this about are world-acclaimed Catalan designer [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%AD_Guix%C3%A9 Martí Guixé], Finnish food visionary [[Antto Melasniemi]] and Lapin Kulta beer. Opening during Milan Design Week 2011 in April, the restaurant will celebrate the sun, gourmet cooking, beer, life and art on its trail towards the never-setting summer sun of the Arctic Circle. Unlike the traditional way of cooking, solar heat affects the taste and texture of the dish in a surprising and positive way, producing a completely different taste experience. The public is invited to follow the construction of the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant at locations including Milan, Stockholm and Helsinki. You will be able to watch the cooking process and finally to enjoy the food in an outdoor setting. View [http://vimeo.com/22464054 opening day] in Milan, [[Italy]].
 
 
*'''Hillary Clinton: "We have got to do something about this!"''' - Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker Magazine: "Not long ago, I met with Kris Balderston, the State Department’s representative for global partnerships. He started working with Clinton ten years ago, when he guided her through the politics of upstate New York during her Senate race. Now he works on an array of entrepreneurial projects that complement traditional diplomacy. He talked excitedly about working with Vietnamese-Americans to build stronger ties to Vietnam and about distributing vaccines in partnership with Coca-Cola. He pointed to a bookcase stocked with devices that looked like a cross between a lantern and a paint bucket. These were advanced cookstoves. “This is a problem that the Secretary saw when she was First Lady,” Balderston said, explaining how lethal cooking smoke can be. “One half of the world cooks in open fires. Two million people die a year from it—that’s more than malaria and tuberculosis combined, and nearly as much as H.I.V.” On a trip to Congo in 2009, Clinton met a woman in a refugee camp who had been raped in the jungle on the outskirts of the camp while gathering wood for her stove. Telling the story at the State Department, Clinton was angrier than Balderston had ever seen her. “We have got to do something about this,” she said. Balderston spends much of his time trying to build a market for inexpensive, clean-burning cookstoves in the developing world." [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/02/110502fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all Read more...]
 
 
==April 2011==
 
*'''European bread producer supports cooking projects in Africa''' - Europastry, located in [[Spain]], has signed an agreement with [[Sol Solidari]], an NGO that provides solar cookers, stoves and solar cookers to families in the Sahel region, across [[Ethiopia]] and Central [[Africa]]. Introducing new technologies, Sun Solidari helps to reduce health problems, poverty and deforestation in these countries. In Isalo, [[Uganda]] most households cook with wood, especially with the system of the three-stone fire. This system is extremely inefficient because a lot of the heat it generates is wasted. In addition, cooking with this system generates a lot of smoke, often inside homes, causing severe vision problems and increasing the incidence of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases. Europastry has donated twenty solar ovens to help the creation of a micro-enterprise bakery in Isalo for a community of women to bake bread for sale, without the need for fuel. They have also funded the purchase of 600 efficient wood stoves for families in Bandiagara, [[Mali]]. These simple stoves, manufactured by local blacksmiths, consume only a third of the firewood used in traditional three-stone cook fires. [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.europastry.com/noticia64.php&sl=es&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Read more...]
 
 
[[File:Ultra_Sun_Cooker,_Ron_Mutebi.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Ultra Sun Cooker]] to be manufactured in [[Uganda]] by [[Ron Mutebi]].]]
 
*'''Solar cooker manufacturing business in Uganda is moving forward''' - Hopefully, production will begin this April in [[Uganda]]. In a recent interview with ''The EastAfrican'', [[Ron Mutebi]] revealed that he has more than 1,000 prospective buyers for his product. "The [[Ultra Sun Cooker]] is designed to meet up to 70 percent of the cooking needs of a typical family, entirely using the power of the sun,” he says. Uganda’s dependence on forest resources for the domestic energy needs of most families continues to deplete the forest cover, a problem other East African countries are also battling with. It is estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organization that Uganda is currently losing almost 2% of their forested areas annually. [http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/-/2560/1129580/-/item/2/-/s6lphmz/-/index.html Read more...]
 
 
==March 2011==
 
*'''Solar cooking helps AIDS patients in Malawi''' - [[Sun Ovens International]], an {{state|Illinois}}, [[USA]] company, joins forces with the [[Rotary Club of Naperville]], Illinois to help promote solar cooking for the people of [[Malawi]], [[Africa]]. Given the economic and health struggles the country is currently facing, this population will benefit greatly from having access to safer and healthier food. The [[Global Sun Oven]]s they brought were perfect in slow cooking the “seven grains” diet given to people living with AIDS. This is a nutritious blend of seven wholesome grains that, when softened, provide patients the best nutrition without being too heavy or harsh on their digestion. Prior to the introduction of solar ovens, people would use a huge amount of fuel like [[charcoal]] or [[firewood]] to soften these grains. Now, all they have to do is to harness the power of the sun to cook their food. This minimizes their exposure to cooking fumes and the need to gather fuel. [http://www.prlog.org/11391943-sun-ovens-partners-with-naperville-rotary-club-to-bring-solar-ovens-to-malawi.html Read more...]
 
 
*'''Worldwide competition for solar cookers coming in October (''postponed until possibly Jan. 2012'').''' - The International Symposium on Renewable Energy, sponsored by [[Promoters and Researchers in Non-Conventional Energy]], will take place in Dhule, [[India]] from October 11th -13th. The symposium includes lectures and activities on renewable energy, as well as, a side by side performance competition for solar cookers and domestic wood stoves. Many variations of solar cookers and stoves have been used in the past for projects promoting [[ICM|integrated cooking]] around the world. As solar cooking is being recognized as a valuable part of the solution in helping to reduce deforestation and respiratory disease, policy makers, governments, and NGO's will be looking at which designs provide the best real-world performance. To accomplish this comparison, testers will use an approach called the [[Testing#Kitchen_Performance_Test_.28KPT.29|Kitchen Performance Test]]. The competition will focus on cooker output, cost, and ease of use in two solar cooking categories, [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Parabolic_solar_reflectors concentrating] solar cookers and other designs, typically [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_box_cookers box] and [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_panel_cookers panel] cookers. All manufacturers, suppliers, and inventors are welcome to participate in the competition. Also, there is no entry fee, though participants are responsible for transporting their designs to the symposium site. [http://princeindia.org/events/index.php More Information...]
 
 
* '''Solar Cooker Review now delivered electronically''' - You can now [http://solarcookers.org/green sign up for electronic delivery] of [[Solar Cooker Review]], SCI's information-packed newsletter.
 
 
[[File:John_Wells_house_3-11.jpg|thumb|300px|John Wells at home in the {{state|Texas}} desert.]]
 
*'''Former New York City photographer lives off-grid in Texas desert with his solar cooker''' - A ''New York Times'' article reports on John Wells, living a solitary existence in the west {{state|Texas}}, [[USA]] desert. If you stop by, he may offer you dinner: a plate of red beans, rice and broccoli, and a tangy slice of homemade cheese, olive and beer bread, cooked all afternoon in his solar oven. His structures are primarily recycled shipping containers, and he has made several clever adaptations of household appliances, including a pedal-powered clothes washer. Using his solar cooker, made from a recycled satellite dish, is central to his daily activities. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/garden/10texas.html?_r=1 ''New York Times'' article with photos of his cooker].
 
 
[[File:SCI_Kisumu_3-7-11.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Uganda]] LGH Director, Amberle Reyes, visits [[Solar Cookers International]] demonstration in Kisumu.]]
 
*'''Light Gives Heat visits Solar Cookers International demonstration in Kisumu, Kenya''' - [[Light Gives Heat]] (LGH) is a NGO promoting grass-root economic sustainability and creative endeavors in [[Africa]]. [[Uganda]]n Director, Amberle Reyes and a staff member recently visited a demonstration of sustainable cooking methods sponsored by [[Solar Cookers International]]. It included traditional fixed and portable earthenware stoves, called ''upesi'' in Kiswahili, which more efficiently use [[charcoal]] or wood as fuel, [[CooKit]] solar panel cookers, and [[heat-retention cooking]] baskets. They were most interested in solar cookers and fireless baskets. Locals were initially attracted to solar cooking not because of the possibility of saving money by buying less fuel, or the health benefits of indoor smoke reduction, but because solar cookers can bake cakes. Cake is seen as a "rich person food", and LGH saw an entrepreneurial opportunity: Cakes are sold for weddings and birthdays. Most people cannot make high-quality cakes because of the irregular temperatures of charcoal and wood stoves, but solar cookers bake perfect, moist cakes with very little worry of burning or overcooking. At the end of March, SCI staff will bring CooKIts and retained-heat cooking baskets to Jinja and demonstrate first-hand their effectiveness to all the LGH employees. Light Gives Heat has received an $8,000 USD grant to supply their Uganda artisans with these solar cookers. [http://hope.lightgivesheat.org/blog/sustainable-cooking More Information and photos...]
 
 
[[File:Phaeton_photo_3-11.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Phaeton]] array with comfortable, waist-high cooking console.]]
 
*'''A flat panel approach to a parabolic solar cooker''' - The [[Phaeton]], developed by [[Fraser Symington]] and [[Lorin Symington]] of [[ASTRA]], is a scaled down version of their earlier [[Helios Array]]. It consists of an array of mirrors supported on a straight steel frame and a cooking console. The light is first focused onto a second reflector, which sends it up to the base of the console, at a convenient working height of 76 cm (30"). With 35 square feet, or 3.2 square meters of collection area, the Phaeton achieves a 5 min/1L boil. A pot with 8L of water will boil in 35 minutes. The flat panel approach to construction allows this cooker to be fabricated for approximately US$350, considerably less than the typical [[parabolic solar cooker]] of this scale. Due to the high range of temperatures it is capable of achieving, the Phaeton can bake, boil, fry, roast, dry, or distill water. With a fan powered dehydrator, it will dry 12 kg of fresh, juicy pineapple into over 2 kg of perfect dry tidbits in twelve hours. The trade-off for such power and convenience is a long focal distance. This means that the Phaeton must be reoriented approximately every seven minutes for maximum output. The array is mounted on caster style wheels, and is easy to rotate for reorientation to the sun. Possibly a candidate for a [[SCK|village cooker]] shared with several households.
 
*'''Big success of the sale of subsidized solar ovens in Lalibela (Ethiopia)''' - In 2008 [http://www.solsolidari.org/ Sol Solidari] started to introduce solar ovens in Lalibela and in the Abune Yosef mountains. The solar ove[[File:Ethiopia_solar.jpg|thumb|Lalibela, Ethiopia. January 2010]]ns are a kind of sealed boxes with glass in the upper part. The solar rays that come into the box cannot go out of it and the inside heats up like a conventional oven. This oven is less expensive than a solar cooker, but it is also slower. The idea is to be able to cook without supervising the food whilst cooking; although the preparation of the food will take several hours. In a first phase of the project the solar ovens were given free to the families with the biggest needs. These families were chosen by the kebeles to promote the knowledge of this new technology. In this way 166 ovens were given during the years 2008 and 2009. Now that the people in this area have seen the functioning and the benefits of these solar ovens we took a start, in 2011, to sell them subsidized. [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Big_success_of_the_sale_of_subsidized_solar_ovens_in_Lalibela_(Ethiopia) (Read more)]
 
 
==February 2011==
 
[[Image:Food_versus_charcoal.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Solar cookers allow the world's poor to apply the money they save on fuel toward the purchase of more food. In Nairobi, Kenya, for example, each food item shown in this photo costs individually the same as the pile of [[charcoal]] in the middle of the photo.]]
 
* '''The Impact of Rising Food Prices''' - Across the globe, food stocks are down in part because of unfavorable weather, ranging from drought to floods in various parts of the world. The demand for rice and other grains, meanwhile has been growing, especially in big developing countries like China. This situation has added to the struggle for families trying to survive, and has helped to fuel protests in the Mideast. With food costs rising in developing nations, there is less money for the population to buy needed fuel, primarily charcoal, for cooking. Introducing solar cooking to more areas is an important way for residents to offset the higher price of food staples. [http://www.npr.org/2011/02/18/133852810/the-impact-of-rising-food-prices-on-arab-unrest#commentBlock Read more...]
 
 
* '''Solar cooker manufacturer offers additional aid to Haiti''' - [[Sun Ovens International]] is pledging to match every [[Sun Oven]] purchased dollar for dollar and will donate all the proceeds to the disaster-stricken people in [[Haiti]] through the [[Friends of Haiti Organization]] (FOHO). Cash donations are also accepted and will also be matched. [http://www.prlog.org/11310295-sun-ovens-international-brings-solar-cooking-to-haiti.html Read more...]
 
 
*'''The World Wildlife Fund, working with energy consultant, Ecofys, has launched "The Energy Report"''' - It presents a detailed plan for earth's population, to thrive without nuclear and fossil fuels by 2050! The report includes solar cookers as one of the zero emissions solutions to the harmful indoor air pollution and massive deforestation faced by hundreds of millions of people in the developing world who still cook over open fires. [http://assets.panda.org/downloads/101223_energy_report_final_print_2.pdf The Energy Report]
 
 
[[Video:Solar-Powered Cooking Arrives in Southern Mexico|thumb|300px|thumb|[[Taqueria Poncho, solar street vendor]] arrives in Oaxaca, [[Mexico]].]]
 
*'''The first solar powered street vendor in Oaxaca, Mexico''' - The inventor of the system is swiss engineer, [[Michael Götz]]. The vendor who operates the cart is Alfredo Garcia Martinez. See: [[Taqueria Poncho, solar street vendor]], watch the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_14itmU-2k video].
 
[[File:Eldoret,_Kenya_students_2010.jpg|thumb|350px|Eldoret, [[Kenya]] students with their recently constructed [[solar panel cooker]]s.]]
 
*'''Student success shows independent spread of solar cooking''' - The [[Eldoret Student Projects]] in [[Kenya]], spearheaded by [[Camily Wedende]] of [[Sun Cookers International]], and aided by long-distance adviser, [[Sharon Cousins]], of [[Solar Cookers International]], have taken an important step in that spread with a student team who not only learned how to cook with sunshine but also learned to take a creative and scientific approach to solar cooking. Students researched existing solar cookers on the [[Solar Cookers World Network]] site. They put their heads together and came up with new ideas to try. They performed comparative tests on an existing model and two of their prototypes. While all three reached cooking temperatures, one innovation showed the strongest performance at their location. All twenty students built durable [[solar panel cooker]]s to take home to the camps where they live, and have been using them to prepare food and provide water [[pasteurization]] for their families. They keep records of their progress and experiments, amazing the neighbors who stop by to see food cooking in a stove powered by sunshine, a stove that children in their community helped to invent. Camily and the team hope that other schools and clubs can use the example of their pilot project to help more youth become scientists for solar cooking, to aid in the spread of this bright idea whose time has come.
 
 
==January 2011==
 
* '''Indian government clears plan for sixty solar cities''' - The Indian Government will kick off an ambitious scheme to develop sixty solar cities in two years. It will be done in collaboration with city corporations, municipalities and district councils. The focus will be on renewable energy devices such as kitchen waste-based plants, solar water heating systems, solar cooking systems, solar steam generation, drying and air heating systems, solar air-conditioning, bio-mass gasification based systems and biogas. [http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/govt-clears-plan-60-solar-cities-208 Read more...]
 
 
* '''U.S. Department of State awards $100,000 grant to Turkish foundation''' - The grant will allow the [[Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work]] (FSWW) to launch a year-long solar cooking project. The project will have two phases. During the first phase, educational seminars about the effects of climate change are planned in several communities — Istanbul, the Marmara district of Bandırma, the southern province of Hatay and the southeastern province of Mardin. Renewable energy sources will be discussed as alternatives to smokey cooking fires. An estimated 2,000 solar cookers will be built and sold by women’s groups during the second phase of the project, providing needed income opportunities. [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=four-innovative-women-projects-get-us-funding-2011-01-24 Read more...]
 
 
* '''Flood-affected Pakistanis receive solar generators and cookers''' -- The people of Swat, [[Pakistan]] have received solar-powered energy generators for electricity and solar-powered cooking equipment funded by a leading Berlin-based non-governmental organization, [[German Aid for Afghan Children]] (GAAC). The organization has begun one million Euros relief and reconstruction work in the Khyber Pakhtunhwa's districts worst hit by floods. GAAC had announced in 2010 the distribution of solar-powered lithium-ion batteries to generate electricity and solar cooking equipment for the planned 1000 families of Swat, Nowshera, Pabbi and Bannu districts. [http://www.powergenworldwide.com/index/display/wire-news-display/1344743867.html Read more...]
 
 
[[Video:Greencook barbecue solaire COOKUP200|350px|right]]
 
* '''ID Cook offers Portable snap-together parabolic solar cooker''' - Based in [[France]], [[ID Cook]] markets the [[Cookup200]]. A clever design, it is assembled quickly from notched pieces that fit together without fasteners. When disassembled, it is easily transported in a relatively compact travel bag. Typically this style of cooker is constructed with fairly heavy materials, and a single piece reflector. Parabolic cookers are often used at a single location. This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGPluZ_tCxE video] of the lightweight solar cooker demonstrates its assembly, operation, and portability.
 
[[File:SCI_exhibition_at_the_UN_1-20-11.jpg|thumb|325px|[[Solar Cookers International]] exhibition at the UN.]]
 
* '''Solar Cookers International exhibition and reception at the Untied Nations a success''' - Representatives from non-governmental organizations and interested supporters attended the three-hour, open-house event put on by [[Solar Cookers International]] on January 18th. The concept of solar cooking is so important, that representatives from [[Nigeria]], the Middle East, [[Pakistan]], [[Bangladesh]], and [[Somalia]] made it through freezing, blowing rain to attend the exhibition. A wide variety of solar cookers were on display with informational material accompanying the cookers. Video loops played throughout the evening, showing real people around the world cooking with the sun and training others to do so. There was a real urgency at the exhibition that the message of solar cooking be strong, unified, and be present in global discussions of development and progress for people around the world.
 
 
* '''African solar cooking partnership project visited by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the [[United States|U.S.]] Vice President''' - [[Lift Up Africa]] is a strong believer that partnering and sharing resources is a key to successful implementation and sustainability. This project was designed to introduce solar cooking and related technologies to ten communities in [[Kenya]]. The partnership relied on [[Africa HEART]], a Kenyan-based NGO recently visited by Vice President Biden’s wife Dr. Jill Biden, to identify three community groups in each district, the fifty trainees in each community, and training venues. Africa HEART covered expenses and handling logistics related to transport for the solar cooking equipment, distribution venues, and follow-up on usage and other needs. [[Solar Cookers International East Africa Office]] (SCI-EA) provided the trainers and supplies, written reports, and conducted the training. Lift Up Africa provided a grant to cover direct expenses related to equipment purchase and SCI-EA’s travel, partnership connections, and worked with Africa HEART on follow-up and project evaluation. This project was a success and 150 families, approximately 1,200 people, have benefited from their new training and solar cooking equipment. This project demonstrates the value of independent organizations working together, each providing their area of expertise, to achieve substantial results. Hopefully, this will be a continuing pattern for projects initiated by members of the [[Solar Cookers World Network]].
 
 
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* '''Haiti - One year later''' - [[Haiti]] continues to benefit from solar cooking. [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI) and [[International Child Care Ministries]] (ICCM) are working to expand a project in the schools around Port Au Prince to integrate solar cooking into the 5th grade science curriculum. The goal is that each student will receive a [[CooKit]] to use each day in preparing and cooking their lunch, all the time learning about science. Training and certification of teachers continues, as do SCI’s efforts to secure funding to provide 2000 more CooKits for this school project. To date, SCI has provided 200 CooKits, pots and [[Water Pasteurization Indicator]]s (WAPIs) for four schools. With [http://www.solarcookers.org/support/donations.html your help], we will achieve our goal of 2000 more! Reaching students in their classrooms, teaching a new lifestyle habit, while at the same time providing environment education is a winning program. Background: SCI, in collaboration with [[Sun Ovens International]] and ICCM, distributed over 400 CooKits in Haiti immediately following the devastating earthquake there. Near the community of Pigeon, 135 Haitians were trained in solar cooking by [[Programme Energie Solaire]]. Each participant received a CooKit, a [[pot]] and a WAPI, giving these earthquake survivors a method to cook their food and [[pasteurize]] their water without need of scarce and expensive fuel. Solar cooking is technology that offers relief in disaster situations: 1) When infrastructures are in ruins and no energy or gas is available, solar cooking utilizes the sun to cook hot food; 2) When fuel is scarce, cooking with the sun offers a clean, workable solution; 3) Solar cookers fight cholera by heating water to pasteurization temperatures (65°C or 150°F); and 4) Using a solar cooker requires only the sun, and does not necessitate searching for other forms of fuel. Families can stay together and remain safe. SCI thanks you for your ongoing support for solar cooking in Haiti.
 
 
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December 2016

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Chef José Andrés teaches Adam Savage, former co-host of Mythbusters, about solar & improved combustion cooking at the White House "South by South Lawn" event
Muni Seva Ashram Scheffler array (India Herald), 12-19-16
The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, Vadodara, India has switched from steam to thermic fluid to be able to provide nighttime solar cooking
Solar Energy Enterprises Comany rooftop kitchen at Family Bank, 12-13-16
Sudanese bank supports microfinancing initiative with local solar cooking manufacturer
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Assistant Professor in Gujart, India, has introduced solar cooking to over 800 women in the past month
November 2016

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Canelo de Nos has spearheaded a program in El Salvador to instruct low-income citizens on how to construct their own solar ovens and other energy saving appliances
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The Solar Connect Association starts new projects in two Ugandan refugee camps
CDDF & Sunlife student training in Ghana, 2-16 cropped
In Ghana, the partnership of SunLife and the Community Directed Development Foundation has fostered empowerment with community-based solar programs
October 2016

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Solar Cookers International joined One Earth Designs to demonstrate solar cooking at the Bioneers 2016 conference
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Solavore, LLC Named One of the Best Privately-Owned Companies in America by Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur 360 List
Solar cooker on Everest, Sun and Ice, 10-20-16
Solar cooker quickly boils water in the intense sunlight of Mt. Everest base camp
Indian women business start-ups, 10-5-16
Women in India find empowerment with solar businesses, and win UN climate award
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Chef José Andrés presented solar cooking technology at the South by South Lawn (SXSL) festival hosted at the White House
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Solar cookers to be distributed to sixteen villages in the Agra region of India
September 2016

SCI solar cookers gragh Lower Nykach, Kenya, 9-22-16
Kenyan households to receive 1,000 CooKit solar cookers with help from Solar Cookers International and the Erik E. and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation
Local Technical Group, Athens, Greece solar project, 9-20-16
The Project Daedalus - Local Technical Group in Athens, Greece has begun to explore solar cooking as a way to help transplanted refugees be able to help themselves
Dominican Republic solar cooking 2016, Yahoo News
How solar ovens are changing lives in the Dominican Republic
August 2016

Just B-Solar kids, 8-26-16
Children learn about their solar future at solar summer camp
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SCI is evaluating the need for a special workshop for social entrepreneurs at the 6th SCI World Conference 2017 in India. Sign up with this quick survey by Friday, 19 August...
SCI-FoST Nepal 2016 training, 8-10-16
Solar cookers help to empower local women in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
July 2016

SCI-Tanzania Rau project, 7-26-16
Villagers in Tanzania reduce consumption of charcoal and firewood through use of solar and fireless cookers
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Environmentalists Deeply Concerned With Firewood Consumption in Refugee Camps
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New York Times article explores the charcoal production economy in Africa and its environmental impact
CSR Initiative Dubai 2016
So far, Beacon Energy Solutions has introduced solar cooking to more than 200 students across three different schools in Dubai
June 2016

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A new report from the International Energy Agency suggests that small investments in clean energy technology can significantly reduce air pollution-related deaths
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Aavin looks to solar pasteurization to process milk in India
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Celebrating solstice with Solar Cookers International
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Solar cookers ease hardship of poor farmers in Gaza
May 2016

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Add your project to SCI's interactive map documenting solar cooking around the world
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Editorial in The Hindu discusses impacts of air pollution in India and includes solar cookers and improved cookstoves as solutions
ARUN 100 award, India, 5-17-16
Award for excellence Solar thermal excellence award in India for ARUN 100 solar cooking system with heat storage
April 2016

Piyush Goyal, state minister, 4-30-16
India has exceeded solar targets by 116% this year
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In a new TIME Magazine article, solar cooking is discussed as a solution to limiting women's exposure to cooking smoke in Nigeria
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In Algeria, 179 pupils take part in a solar cooking festival with 70 different designs
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The latest issue of Sierra Club Magazine features Dr. Catlin Powers describing why she started One Earth Designs, the impact she's seen solar cooking make, and what she would like to work on next
Roorkee IIT institutional array, 4-14-16
Roorkee IIT uses solar energy for steam cooking, saving 5,000 LPG cylinders a year
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Video: Dr. Catlin Powers of One Earth Designs speaking at a Clinton Global Initiative University panel on how solar cooking combats household air pollution and fuel scarcity
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Dr. Mrs. Janak McGilligan appointed to the Solar Cookers International Advisory Council
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USAID provides solar rice dryers to farmers in the Philippines for typhoon recovery
March 2016

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Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior demonstrates solar cooking during port visits
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SunPod interview with SCI director Julie Greene from recent Portugal conference
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The Huffington Post reports on the world's largest solar power plant being activated in Morocco
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GoSun featured in Epicurious article on how solar cooking can benefit those living in both developing and developed countries
February 2016

Three Million Solar Cooker map, SCI, 2-24-16
Three Million Solar Cookers Worldwide Impacting Over Eleven Million People - SCI
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Solar Cookers International releases its Annual Report for 2015
January 2016

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United Nations accepts Solar Cookers International's statement for the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women
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Did you miss the webinar on how to create and edit SCI Wiki pages? The recording is available on the SCI YouTube channel
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Team E-Innovation wins second place in Kuwait Global Technopreneurship Challenge for their solar box cooker design
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A record setting 5,760 students participated in a solar cooking event on January 12, 2016 in Aurangabad, India as part of Maha SuryaKumbh 2016 organized by Keshav Srushti
Keshav Srushti sun image, 1-13-16
On January 24th, after this year's Maha SuryaKumbh, Keshav Sruhti will be opening an educational solar energy park in Uttan, India
(EVENT) January 22-23, 2016: (Faro, Portugal) CONSOLFOOD 2016 Conference: Advances in Solar Food Processing and Solar Cooking
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One Earth Designs featured in Huffington Post: "How Do You Fight The World's 'Largest Environmental Health Problem'? Harness The Sun."
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GoSun presented with the Innovation Award for Eco-Design and Sustainable Technologies at CES 2016
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Funding opportunity from the U.S. EPA and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves for innovations in the areas of integrated cooking, heating, and electric power generation.

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