Solar Cooking News News items and additions to the Solar Cooking Archive

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November 2007

• Donate to the KoZon / Jewish World Watch Darfur solar cooking project. A $30 donation provides one family with 2 Solar Cookers, 2 Pots, training, and a year's supply of plastic bags.
• Solar oven donations crucial (Re: Kyoto Twist Solar Cooking Society) - The Powell River Peak
• Report on Jewish World Watch visit to Darfur refugees in Chad
• AP video footage taken at the US State Department in September 2007 at an all-day solar cooker demo for the Refugee Bureau. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey is featured.

October 2007

• Solar Cookers International has been awarded a grant of $220,000 from the Goldman Fund to support the Safe Water Package Project, which will distribute water testing and solar pasteurization kits in western Kenya and train community members in their use.
• FoST of Nepal is among the 12 finalists for the World Challenge 2007. This global competition was set up three years ago by the BBC World, Newsweek and Shell to recognize the innovators of this world. Details on the BBC broadcast schedule of a half-hour documentary covering FoST's work are here. To vote to make FoST the winner, please go here.
• Scottsdale Green Building Expo features a solar cooking competition among 10 local chefs.
• SCI's Annual Report for 2006 is now online
• SCI Director Patrick Widner on local Sacramento TV
• Document added: The Technology of Solar Cooking - Dr. Ed Pejack
• Solar lifeline saves Darfur women - CNN International
• Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide - US Department of State

September 2007

• Cooking in Sun Better for Environment - WUSA TV
• Cooking under the sun - The Chicago Tribune
• SCI's Shine On event will take place on September 12 at the Sacramento Zoo
• New document: Safe Water from Sunshine
• Bob Metcalf interviewed on Sacramento NPR program
• New document: Low-cost box cooker made of local materials in India

August 2007

• Three simple ways to put solar power to use - Dow Jones MarketWatch
• When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven - The Globe and Mail
• The July 2007 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
• Erratic Monsoon, Glacier Retreat - Brown Cloud [from cooking fires] Involved In All - NewsPost India
• To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project - Catholic Sentinel
• New document: The Windshield Shade Cooker in Persian
• Cooking fires add to global warming - The New Zealand Herald
• Under the Sun - The Baltimore Sun
• Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris (includes video) - The Christian Science Monitor
• Rep. Mark Udall, congressman from Colorado, is sponsoring a solar cooking demonstration July 26-27 for the US Congress
• Watch a new video showing Solar Household Energy's work with HotPot cookers in Mexico.
• Conservation Saves More Than the Environment - The Washington Post
• Solar Cooking Archive Wiki featured article for July 16, 2007: Vietnam Solar Serve

 July 2007

• Solar Serve News #15 from Vietnam now online
• Solar ovens utilize nature's rays for energy-efficient, everyday cooking -- even in foggy San Francisco - San Francisco Chronicle
• YouTube video showing Darfur Peace and Development Organization solar cooking project in Sudan
• New document: Making the CooKit more durable
• Solar Cooking Archive Wiki featured article for June 17, 2007: The Integrated Cooking Method
• Interview with Ravindra and Shobha Pardeshi Inventors of the Parvati Solar Cooker

May 2007

• Little pieces go a long way to provide safe water - Knoxville Sentinel News
• Thirty thousand solar cookers to be sent to Indonesia to cut kerosene use in European CDM project - The Jakarta Post
• Lansing State Journal: Solar Circle provides impetus for change -- MSU students’ re-engineered ovens help impoverished in Tanzania
• If you know of someone who is making a difference in the climate-change debate, NPR wants to hear from you.
• Sacramento News Review: Sacramento's Solar Cookers International uses the sun to improve quality of life, one village at a time.
• The March 2007 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
• Tanzania issues solar cooking stamp
• Paraguay issues solar cooking stamp

April 2007 

• Regula Ochsner of the NGO ADES in Madagascar has been awarded the international "Women of the Earth Award" by the Yves Rocher Foundation. The award ceremony in Paris and was attended by French Minister for the Environment. Ochsner plans to invest the prize money of €10,000 in a further solar cooker pilot project in the south of Madagascar.
• SCI's Kenya Office newsletter online
• Spring 2007 newsletter from Vietnam Solar Serve posted.
• Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees
• Plans for the Clean Green solar cooker
• Solar Cooker Dissemination in Kenya (a March 2007 case study on Sunny Solutions by Pascale Dennery)
• New audio interview: Pascale Dennery, SCI's outgoing Director of International Program Development discussed Darfur refugees, the Sunny Solutions project in Kenya, plus much more
• February '07 factsheet on the projects to help Darfur refugees
• Solar cooking project to help Darfur refugees getting underway at the Touloum refugee camp in Chad

March 2007 

• Report on the use of HotPot solar cookers to reduce air pollution from cooking fires in northern Mexico
• Jewish World Watch is coordinating donations to supply solar cookers to the Darfur refugees in Chad
• Rural Kenyan Women on Vanguard of African Solar Revolution - Agence France Presse

February 2007

• New document: Environmental Feedback and Anthropometrical Results of a Solar Cooker for Houses in Arid Zones [Covers through-the-wall ovens]
• New document: Towards sustainable relief-assistance - Applicability of the sunny solution [Covers solar cookers in the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal]
• Nos dias 16 e 17 de Março de 2007 irá realizar-se um "Piquenique Solar" na Ecoteca de Olhão, Portugal.
• New audio interview: Allart Ligtenberg discussing a recent project in Mexico and his work with the Rotary Club on projects in Nepal, Indonesia, and Afghanistan.
• Who's Who in the Solar Cooking Movement
• Compendium of Solar Cooker Designs
• A video interview with SCI's Faustine Odaba at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. January 2007. Interviewer is Jason Nardi of Arcoiris TV.
• "Stoves for a Better Life" seminar to be held in La Paz, Bolivia on 5-7 March, 2007. Integrated cooking methods, including solar cookers and improved biomass stoves, will be highlighted. The draft program is available for download in Spanish (pdf) and English (pdf).
• Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking
• New Persian document: solar cooking in Iran
• 2007 "Prize for Humanity" goes to one Dutch and two Africans — Derk Rijks, Marie-Rose Neloum, and Gillhoube Patallet — who aided Darfur refugees by arranging the distribution of thousands of solar cookers.
• IPS news item: Indoor Air Pollution - Silent Killer of Women Over 1.5 million females die prematurely every year by inhaling poisonous fumes as they cook or heat their homes...
• HEDON Household Energy news item on using cooking baskets (retained heat cookers) in Kenya
• New translation: Frequently Asked Questions in the Tshiluba language of the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Couple's Vacation Turns into Crusade - The Livingston Daily

January 2007

• Solar cooking in Norway!  See Brit Bakken Oedegaard's article on solar cooking in the snow at 57° N.
• CNN Money features Sun Ovens
• A new issue of SolarServe News from Vietnam is now online.
• Actor Ed Begley Jr., to bring solar cooking to television
• Katonah, New York concert to provide solar cookers to Darfur refugees
• New translation: The Tire Cooker in the Tshiluba language of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2006

December 2006

November 2006

• Princeton student working in Kenya & Tanzania
• Introducing the Sol-Cafe
• Two Tamil documents added: Document one and document two
• Photos from the ECOSOL II in Portugal now online.
• New document: Report on Rotary Club activities with solar cooking in Rwanda.
• New audio interview: Barbara Kerr discussing the development of the cardboard solar cooker and the through-the-wall oven.
• New document: The Use of the Solar Panel Cooker for Medical Pressure Steam Sterilization
• Listen to a shortwave radio interview with Greg Lynch of Montana who will speak on solar cookers for emergency preparedness December 12 at 4 pm PST (8:00 GMT). See stevequayle.com. Frequencies will be 5755 KHz and 7465 KHz.
• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article on the need for solar cookers in Darfur to prevent the rape of women gathering firewood outside of the refugee camps.
• SCI's Kenya Office newsletter now online
• The November 2006 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
• The Shell Foundation has a short film on indoor air pollution
• Al Ligtenberg's Granada paper now online
• English plans added: Portable Solar Barbeque
• The Gadhias promote solar cooking in Korea
• New document: Dual-Setting Panel Cooker (DSPC) in Farsi
• New document: Investigating Appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development in Nigeria
• Introducing the cardboard Kundu Kaar
• Recent photos from Mozambique
• Darfur Solar Cookers Project info
• New document: Solar Cooker Dissemination & Cultural Variables
• Over 1000 HotPots arrive in Mali
• SUN OVENS International, Inc. is looking to license or franchise the exclusive rights to make and market GLOBAL SUN OVENS® to private sector entrepreneurs outside of the USA.
• Rotary gives oven to Malawi orphans
• New Urdu document: Developing an Intuitive Feel for Solar Cooking
• Solar Cooking Solution Changing Lives in Kenya
• New Urdu document: Solar Cooking Frequently-Asked Questions
• Mike Pool created this design
• Killer in the Kitchen Conference, Nov. 16-18

October 2006

• Integrated cooking: solar + retention + wood
• Plans added for the Primrose cooker
• Traditional cooking stoves impact global warming more than expected
• New plans added: The Minimum Solar Box Cooker in Urdu
• Solar Energy International is conducting workshops entitled Renewable Energy for the Developing World in Nicaragua and Costa Rica this winter.
• New document: What You Can Do to Spread Solar Cooking in Urdu
• New DVD covers Kenyan projects
• World Renewable Energy Congress & (WREN) International Seminar in Britain November 26
• New audio interview: Grace Magney discussing the Global Hope Network International solar cooking project in Afghanistan
• The new short film Suncookers is featured in this article about this year's Woodstock Film Festival.
• New audio interview: Sanu Kaji Shrestha discussing the FoST solar cooking project in Nepal
• The Encontro de Cozinhas Solares (I ECOSOL) will be held at the University of Algarve (da Penha) in Portugal on November 11th, 2006.
• Newspaper article on need for renewable energy in Mexico. SHE, Inc's project there is discussed
• Video with SCI's Margaret Owino (High, Low)
• One-page Darfur brochure available for posting
• Dr. Bob Metcalf's Granada presentation on solar water pasteurization is now available online as a PDF file.
• Joel Goodman has added a number of new design ideas to his page in the Archive
• New audio interview: An interview with Margaret Owino (SCI's Director of the Eastern Africa Region) that was broadcast on WBAI on September 22, 2006
• New issue: SolarSever News #12 (Vietnam) -- October 2006
• Watch new report about the Smokeless Village in India (high bandwidth or low bandwidth)

September 2006

• New audio interview: Una entrevista con Fabiola Cuvi discutiendo los acontecimientos con cocinas solares en Ecuador
• New audio added: Dr. Robert Metcalf's presentation on solar water pasteurization from the 2006 solar cooking conference in Granada, Spain (Windows Media Audio: 16k, 8k).  A PDF file containing his presentation can be found here
• New audio interview: Tan Bich discussing the SolarServe project in Vietnam
• English translation added: The Cob solar oven
• Celestino Ruivo's recent activities in Portugal
• A simple cooker made from a metal cauldron
• Introducing the Molly Baker solar cooker
• New Farsi translation added: Canning Fruits with a Solar Box Cooker
• Presentando la Barbacoa Solar Portátil
• Bart Orlando feeds homeless in California
• Watch video showing how solar cookers are preventing rape in Darfur refugee camps
• Evaluation of Three Solar Cooker Projects in Burkina Faso
• Introducing the Romaschka cooker
• The Solar Cooking Archive is now available in Arabic through machine translation
• New Persian document: What you can do to promote solar cooking
• New audio interview: Louise Meyer, SHE Director of Training & Mexico Programs
• Solar Cooker Review -- August 2006
• Introducing the Devos Cooker
• New document added: Through-the-wall ovens in Farsi

August 2006

• New document added: Through-the-wall ovens in Farsi
• New audio interview: An interview with Heinz Vetter on the ADES project in Madagascar
• New audio interview: An interview with Golo Pilz discussing his extensive work with large Scheffler cooker installations
• New audio interview: An interview with Wietske Jongbloed of the KoZon Foundation
• Fighting Diabetes on US Indian reservations
• New audio interview: Alex Kee discusses his Solar Kettle / Thermos Flask
• Nueva entrevista grabada: Mariana Díaz en España
• SCI wins European Union award
• Recent event in Verdes Campiñas, Chile
• Interesting box cooker support system
• New video: Rowena Gerber and the Solar Oven Project
• Farsi translation added: Balancing the Scales
• German translation added: Double-Angled-Twelve-Sided (DATS)
• New audio interview: Clara Thomas discusses SCEN solar cooking project in Eritrea
• New audio interview: Dr. Dieter Seifert discusses how the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of Kyoto can be used to finance solar cooking projects.
• Turning design added to Research page
• Photos from the Granada conference now available

July 2006

• New document: Solar Cooking FAQ in Farsi:
• New document: La cuisson écologique en Afrique : Quels retours d’expériences?
• Spanish plans added: La Cocina Solar Paracuina
• Document added: Issue #11 of SolarServe News #11 from Vietnam
• Add plans for the Paracuina cooker
• Document added: The Special Challenges of Solar Cooking (PDF)

June 2006

• New German document added: Lebensmittelsicherheit und solares Kochen
• New German document added: Früchte mit einem solaren kistenkocher einwecken
• New drawings added to Joel Goodman's page.
• Document added: Lasting Impacts of a Solar Cooking Project in Bolivia
• Interesting cooker from Cleardome
• Link added to a large collection of photos taken by Dr. Bob Metcalf on his many international projects where he teaches water quality and solar water pasteurization.
• Document added: Lasting Impacts of Solar Cooker Projects
• The Chicago Power Network, an newly forming alliance of businesses, investors, activists & volunteers specializing in alternative energy solutions will hold its first public gathering Tuesday, June 27, 2006:Jefferson Tap & Grill 325 N. Jefferson in Chicago, 6:00 PM. There will also be a special Sun Oven cooking demonstration at 1pm. Eat sun-cooked food at 1pm return at 6pm!
• Jewish World Watch is now starting to ship solar cookers to a refugee camp in Darfur.
• The Bolivia Project Blog describes recent and future solar cooking projects in Bolivia
• Le Fourum Solaire 2 will be held in Fougères/Bièvre, France on July 9th
• Lastest issue of SuNews from Solar Cookers International's Nairobi office now online
• New developments in the Parvati cooker
• Experimenting with the position of multiple pots
• SCI has recently begun a project to scan in some of the thousands of paper documents that it has acquired over the years to make these available to people around the world. This Solar Cooking Document Archive will continue to grow over time.

May 2006

• The last tree by Gnibouwa Diassana
• Indian Army cooks with solar cookers
• Solar cooking village illustration
• New document: Non-cooking uses of box solar cookers
• Graduates Aim to Stop Indoor Air Pollution Deaths (includes video of Bolivian solar cooking project).
• Photos from Vajra Foundation in Nepal
• Research report added: Solar Cookers and Other Cooking Alternatives
• Research report added: The physics and mathematics of solar cookers by Dr. Ed Pejack (PDF)
• Website of Altener working in Kenya
• Panel design by Alejandro De Diego
• Bender Bayla, Somalia: The world's first solar cooker village
• Report on recent extensive solar cooking project in Mali (PDF)
• New solar cooking DVD: Thirsty Planet (PDF)
• How to cook a solar pizza (PDF)
• Extensive Gadhia Solar website

April 2006

• New high-resolution photo added
• Another new community cooker design
• 24th annual Tucson Solar Potluck Saturday, April 29th
• Solar Cooker Review March 2006 issue now online
• Vietnamese NGO SolarServe has new Web site
• SolarServe April-June 2006 newsletter now online
• Solar Energy International is offering many renewable energy courses this summer
   
• New community cooker design

March 2006

• New French documents added:
  Ce que vous pouvez faire pour diffuser Solar Cooking
  Fabriquer un réflecteur parabolique à partir d’une feuille plane
  La cuisson à chaleur maintenue
  Mise à jour du pisteur pour four solaire
  Faire des conserves de fruits dans un four solaire à caisson
  Evaluation des fours solaires
  Recettes de colle
  Des fours qui traversent le mur
• Truckee Rotary clubs heat things up in Kenya

February 2006

• The Suntastic Panel Cooker
• Watch video of SHE, Inc. project in Mexico's Sierra Gorda biosphere
• New Link: Synopsis
• New Document: Moving Ahead with Solar Cookers -- Acceptance and Introduction to the Market (PDF from GTZ)
• Extensive Japanese solar cooking site
• Coffee fans buzzing about Bend brothers' solar-powered roaster
• Buy organic fair trade solar roasted coffee here: Solar Roast coffee
• French recipes added: Recettes du Soleil

January 2006

• A Solar Cooking Day (PDF file from India)
• New French photo gallery: Galerie de photos de fours solaires
• New French plan summary: Plans de construction de fours solaires
• Armenia: Rotary Club Turkey-Armenia Report - Sept - Oct 2005
• New French documents added:
  Les plans complets du four solaire “qui traverse le mur” sont maintenant disponibles
  Expérimentation du positionnement des récipients en fours solaires
  Un four à deux angles: le four solaire Parvati
  Four solaire Parvati (12 faces)
  Fabriquer et utiliser un four solaire
  Un RBC pliable
  Etude de cas de fours solaires
  Un four solaire en argile
  Le four, pisteur de soleil
  Une cuisine solaire pliante
  Réchauffeur et pasteurisateur solaire fabriqué avec des matériaux recyclés
  Le Fourneau Solaire Incliné - Une Nouvelle Conception
  Un déshydrateur solaire à conduit
  Marmite Solaire SunPan
  Le Four Solaire à panneau NELPA
  Prototype de fourneau solaire
  Le Rocket Stove WINIARSKI (four-fusée)
  Concept d’un Four Solaire Fresnel
  Le four solaire – paresoleil de voiture
  Le four à 2 panneaux de réglage (DSPC)
  La Boite-Four solaire “Minimum”
  Le four solaire ouvert à réflecteur
  Le four solaire à entonnoir
  Un Pasteurisateur Solaire Simple
  Le pneu cuisinier
  Le four à couvercle
  Le four en étoile
  Four solaire en torchis

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