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[[Image:Barbara_Kerr_and_Sherry_Cole.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Barbara Kerr (left) with [[Sherry Cole]]]]
 
[[Image:Barbara_Kerr_and_Sherry_Cole.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Barbara Kerr (left) with [[Sherry Cole]]]]
'''Barbara Kerr''' was one of the primary founders of the current solar cooking movement. In the early 1970s she and her friend [[Sherry Cole]] designed a cardboard [[solar box cooker ]]and an early [[solar wall oven]]. She later helped develop a panel-type solar cooker known as the [[CooKit]]. Barbara was a founding board member of [[Solar Cookers International]]. She co-founded the [http://www.solarcooking.org/bkerr/ Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center] in Taylor, {{State|Arizona}} (USA), where numerous solar applications and sustainable practices can still be learned. Barbara received the [http://www.ases.org/about/awards/wise.htm "Women in Solar Energy" award] from the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) in July of 2006. The award "recognizes a woman who has contributed significantly to the acceptance and advancement of women in solar by any of the following means: advocacy, education, technical efforts, contracting or implementing social change." Barbara Prosser Kerr, 86, passed away peacefully at home on April 2, 2012.
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'''Barbara Kerr''' was one of the primary founders of the current solar cooking movement. In the early 1970s she and her friend [[Sherry Cole]] designed a cardboard [[solar box cooker ]]and an early [[solar wall oven]]. She later helped develop a panel-type solar cooker known as the [[CooKit]]. Barbara was a founding board member of [[Solar Cookers International]]. She co-founded the [http://www.solarcooking.org/bkerr/ Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center] in Taylor, {{State|Arizona}} (USA), where numerous solar applications and sustainable practices can still be learned. Barbara received the [http://www.ases.org/about/awards/wise.htm "Women in Solar Energy" award] from the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) in July of 2006. The award "recognizes a woman who has contributed significantly to the acceptance and advancement of women in solar by any of the following means: advocacy, education, technical efforts, contracting or implementing social change." Barbara Prosser Kerr, 86, passed away peacefully at home on April 2, 2012. Her [http://kerr-cole.org/index.php/barbara-kerr-obituary obituary].
   
 
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