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Sustainable Technology and Energy for Vital Economic Needs

The S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation was incorporated in New York in 1986 by Emeritus Prof. Jaroslav Vanek of Cornell University. The name stands for Sustainable Technology and Energy for Vital Economic Needs, and the goal of the Foundation is to develop and disseminate low-cost appropriate technology designs. In exploring the low-cost exploitation of solar energy and other renewable energy resources, it is the desire of the Foundation to make available to all people, but especially the poor and disadvantaged, inexpensive alternate sources of energy for development and economic viability. The Foundation collaborates with Engineers for a Sustainable World at Cornell University, on project such as the development and testing of solar oven designs. The S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation was incorporated in New York in 1986 by Emeritus Prof. Jaroslav Vanek of Cornell University. The name stands for Sustainable Technology and Energy for Vital Economic Needs, and the goal of the Foundation is to develop and disseminate low-cost appropriate technology designs. In exploring the low-cost exploitation of solar energy and other renewable energy resources, it is the desire of the Foundation to make available to all people, but especially the poor and disadvantaged, inexpensive alternate sources of energy for development and economic viability. The Foundation collaborates with Engineers for a Sustainable World at Cornell University, on project such as the development and testing of solar oven designs.

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February 2008: We are continuing to collaborate in promoting solar ovens with Engineers for a Sustainable World, or ESW, at Cornell, where Francis teaches a service learning course to undergraduate engineers, some of whom are studying solar cooking. The ESW students’ primary collaborator is now a Nicaraguan NGO called Grupo Fenix that promotes solar cooking, with S.T.E.V.E.N. in an advisory role about the design of the ovens. With our input, and under the leadership of Tim Bond, laboratory manager of the Winter Laboratory at Cornell, the students have also developed a solar simulator using high-power lighting that allows continuous testing of solar oven prototypes at any time of day or night in a protected indoor setting. [Extracted from newsletter.]