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Board Member Biographies Barbara Prosser Kerr Writer, lecturer,
inventor, consultant. Founder, designer and director of the Kerr-Cole
Sustainable Living Center. (Retired) founding board member of Solar
Cookers International (SCI). Retired emergency room social worker.
Former registered nurse. RN, Capitol City School of Nursing, Washington,
DC, 1947 (Cum Laude). BA, Univ. of Chicago, 1951. MSW, Arizona State
Univ., 1971. Discovered that one can cook in a box made of cardboard,
aluminum foil and clear plastic. Similar designs are now widely used in
developing countries, based on this work. Developed the 7-Panel
Backpacker cooker from which evolved the CooKit design, which SCI now
distributes in refugee camps and remote areas of the world. Wrote the
textbook “The Expanding World of Solar Box Cookers” in 1991. In
collaboration with Dr. Paul Funk,
designed, developed and patented (1985, now expired) the
Thru-The-Wall-Oven (Solar Wall Oven) concept. James L. (Jim) Scott Retired electronic design engineer (BSEE, University of California, Berkeley, 1969, with honors) with a career as an analog designer and project leader in the fields of electronic music and in electronic instrumentation. Also worked extensively as a technical writer and applications engineer. Since retiring he worked two years in Navajo Nation schools as a volunteer in the areas of greenhouse construction and funding for school computer systems. As resident at the Kerr-Cole Center since 1999 he has been involved in renewable energy systems, green building technologies, and solar cooker design. Jim now is focusing his experience at the Center on the issue of developing a demonstration site in Alaska featuring sustainable cold climate permaculture, negative carbon footprint, extremely low non-renewable energy use and reliance primarily on local material resources. Amber Faith Maria Donaghy Barbara Rystad Monty Cunningham Barbara Hockabout ClarkHockabout
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