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Solar cooking around the world
Top News
April 2024
Podcaster Nate Hagens is joined by solar oven collector and educator, Luther Krueger, to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking |
March 2024
Kithuia Integrated Solar Cookers demonstrate cooking techniques at the primary school games, attended by over 1,000 people in Kithuia Village, Kenya |
Watch on-demand, Solar Cookers International's CSW68 Virtual Parallel Event - Empowering women and girls through solar cooking |
Solar Cookers International recognized in Solar Today for article on the value of solar cooking |
After the October 2023 earthquake, they are rebuilding in Herat, Afghanistan with transitional housing, community-cooked meals, and solar cookers from the UNDP |
The opening date for the Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France is 11 June 2024 |
Little Stars e.V. teams with Foundation for Sustainable Technologies to provide parabolic solar cookers, briquette presses, and heat-retention baskets to ten families in Nepal |
International Women's Day appreciation from a founder of Lytefire |
The African Solar Caravan introduces a hybrid solar oven with charcoal back-up, designed for community kitchens and small organizations serving meals |
February 2024
Solar Cookers International manuscript "Testing solar cookers for cooking efficiency" published by the scientific organization ELSEVIER |
The Donne Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti receives additional solar cookers donated by Tom Hallquist |
13-14 April 2024: Solar cooking workshops in Sorède, France at the site of the historical solar furnace |
Events
Featured international events
- 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...
Online events
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C., USA): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online
Requests for proposal
- Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
All country events
Algeria
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024: Development of Solar Cooking in Algeria - Information Day at the Center for Renewable Energies Development, CDER at 9 am in the center lecture hall. http://www.cder.dz Learn about the process of solar drying various foods. lacom@cder.dz for more information. Address: PB.62, Route de l’Observatoire Bouzareah, 16340, Alger, Algérie.
Barbados
- 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...
France
- NEW: 6 April through 20 July 2024 (various locations in France): Inti solar oven construction workshops - The French organization Inti is offering solar oven construction workshops in a number of communities. The workshops are open to all. See all the locations, scheduled dates, and registration information...
Mexico
- NEW: First Sunday of the month (Cuernavaca, Morelos): Cuernavaca Solar Cooking and Solar Drying Club - The club meets the first Sunday of the month for solar cooking, 11:00am - 2:00pm. You can bring ingredients and utensils to cook with the sun and share sunny food at the end. San Miguel Ecological Park Acapantzingo, Av. Atlacomulco No.14, Acapantzinga, 62448 Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico. If you like to bring materials to build your solar kitchen or solar dryer, we will send you the plans and list of materials by mail. jm.hernandezjarquin@gmail.com
USA
Washington, D.C.
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C.): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online
Arizona
- NEW: Saturday, 27 April 2024 (Tucson, Arizona): 39th Annual Solar Potluck at Catalina State Park - Citizens for Solar will hold their annual solar potluck once again at Catalina State Park, 11570 N Oracle Rd. The event begins at noon and runs to sunset. Solar cooked food will be provided all day, along with solar displays and exhibitors. The solar potluck dinner at 5:00 pm – Come out and cook with us*, or bring a dish or beverage to share, as well as your own plate and utensils. Entrance into the solar potluck is free, but there is $7/car entrance fee to Catalina State Park. The potluck will be held at the Gila Monster group area, park in the Flycatcher area. *If you plan to cook with us, please let us know you're coming. For more information, contact us at solarguildaz@gmail.com
Awards and grants
- NEW: Climate Adaptation Challenge Fund: The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity will run competitive challenges or calls for proposals aimed at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that show the potential to create work opportunities for young women and men, young people living with disabilities or refugee youth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Fund will run these challenges across three sectors to establish a robust portfolio of innovative SMEs as they create work opportunities in SSA. The Climate Adaptation Fund will launch in 2025 and be open for nine months. Details of the challenge will be provided at a later stage. More information...
- Roddenberry Catalyst Fund: Applications accepted anytime (EN) - The Catalyst Fund is geared towards small and/or early-stage ideas and projects that need a capital infusion to launch or prove viability. Catalyst awardees are typically piloting a program, venturing into new territory, on the cusp of launching, or pivoting in a new direction. The Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500–$15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world addressing pressing global challenges. You can have 25 years of experience or be just starting out. You can be working alone, with a team, as part of a non-profit organization, a social enterprise, or a for-profit corporation. See the following link for more information: https://roddenberryfoundation.org/our-work/catalyst-fund/#faq
- LUSH Charity Pot Grants: Applications accepted anytime (EN/FR/ES) - Charity Pot grants support small, grassroots organizations in North America and around the world that are working on the root cause of issues and creating long-term sustainable change. [They] support organizations working in areas of animal protection, environmental justice, and human rights....Applications are submitted via an online granting system asking about your organization’s purpose, main activities, governance structure and annual revenue. Additionally, a description of the project that you’re seeking funding for is requested along with an itemized budget, timeline and how the project’s success will be measured. Our support ranges from a few thousand dollars to a maximum of $15,000 per project. Applications available in English, French, and Spanish. See the following link for more information: https://www.lushusa.com/stories/article_funding-and-application-guidelines.html
- GEF Small Grants Programme: Applications accepted anytime (EN) - SGP grants are made directly to community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in recognition of the key role they play as a resource and constituency for environment and development concerns. The maximum grant amount per project is US$50,000, but averages around US$25,000. In this way, SGP complements the large and medium-sized GEF project funding by providing a window for the direct participation of NGOs, local communities, and other grassroots organizations. How to apply..., and find your national coordinator
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New content
April 2024
- Advocacy: Podcaster Nate Hagens is joined by solar oven collector and educator, Luther Krueger, to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking
- Design: Haines Pop Open Solar Cooker
- Online: (EVENT) Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C.): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access
- USA: (EVENT) Saturday, 13 April 2024 (Bowie, Maryland) (12-4pm EDT): Bowie Green Expo - Solar Household Energy will be demonstrating solar cookers
- Nicaragua: Cultivating a Revolutionary Spirit: Stories of Solidarity, Solar Cooking, and Women’s Leadership in Central America. New book by Laura Snyder Brown & William Fleet Lankford
- Annual Report: Solar Household Energy: 2021 Annual Report
- Algeria: (EVENT) Thursday, 18 April 2024: Development of Solar Cooking in Algeria - Information Day at the Center for Renewable Energies Development, CDER at 9am
- Mexico: (EVENT) Sunday, 7 April 2024 (Cuernavaca, Morelos): Fourth Meeting of the Cuernavaca Solar Cooking and Solar Drying Club - It takes place every first Sunday of the month, 11:00am - 2:00pm.
- United Kingdom: Sunstore Technologies, located in Edinburgh, manufacture a solar electric hybrid cooker
- Advocacy: SCI Executive Director, Caitlyn Hughes, was invited to the Sheryl's Good Deeds radio show on Mix96Sac, underscoring SCI's dedication to empowering women and girls worldwide through clean cooking solutions
- Haiti: Solar Cookers for Haiti organizes a solar cooked meal for the kids at several orphanages near Hinche
- Patent: Long-Term Heat Storage Device and Method for Long-Term Heat Storage of Solar Energy and Other Types of Energy with Changing Availability - Vladan Petrovic
March 2024
- Advocacy: Solar Lights the Path Out of Poverty: SCI Vice President Ruth Holton-Hodson speaks at the UN CSW68 event hosted by ICUUW
- USA: LISD Tech Center students, Tecumseh Rotary Club partner on water pasteurization project (making WAPIS) - Daily Telegram
- France: (EVENT) 6 April through 20 July 2024 (various locations in France): The French organization Inti is offering solar oven construction workshops in a number of communities this spring and summer
- USA: Gene Bethke gives Luther Kreuger a tour of the Solar Oven Partners production facility in South Dakota
- Design: Jim La Joie discusses the features of the All Season Solar Cooker in this video
- Kenya: Kithuia Integrated Solar Cookers demonstrate cooking techniques at the primary school games, attended by over 1,000 people in Kithuia Village, Kenya
- Tanzania: EG Solar update of their projects in Tanzania from 2020 through 2023
- Advocacy: Watch on-demand, Solar Cookers International's CSW68 Virtual Parallel Event - Empowering women and girls through solar cooking
- India: From sun to plate: India yet to embrace solar cooking benefits - Mongabay
- Zambia: Empowering Zambian Communities with Solar Cookers (PV) - LABOPEN
- United Kingdom: Luther Krueger interviews Stewart MacLachian from SLiCK
- Design: Experimental Analysis of Solar Parabolic Trough Collector for Novel Solar Cooking System
- Promotion: Solar Cookers International recognized in Solar Today for article on the value of solar cooking
- Afghanistan: After the October 2023 earthquake, they are rebuilding in Herat with with transitional housing, community-cooked meals, and solar cookers from the UNDP
- France: The opening date for the Le Présage solar restaurant in Marseilles, France is 11 June 2024
- Nepal: Little Stars e.V. teams with Foundation for Sustainable Technologies to provide parabolic solar cookers, briquette presses, and heat-retention baskets to 10 families in Nepal
- India: The men cooked and served a solar lunch for the women to celebrate International Women Day March 8, 2024 at the Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development
- Parabolic cooking: Baking and preserving with the parabolic solar cooker - Imma Seifert
- International Women's Day: A message of appreciation from a founder of Lytefire
- Kenya: Farmers with a Vision continue a successful production run of Funnel solar panel cookers
- South Africa: The African Solar Caravan introduces a hybrid solar oven with charcoal back-up, designed for community kitchens and small organizations serving meals
- Solar Potluck: (EVENT) Saturday, 27 April 2024: 39th Annual Solar Potluck at Catalina State Park in Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Design: Mark Shook describes the features of the new Villager Sun Oven to Luther Kreuger
- Online: (EVENT) United Nations NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Forum addresses the potential for solar power to empower women, while alleviating climate change, 12 March 2024, Session One
- India: Over 70% of rural households use firewood for cooking in Nagaland - The Morung Express
February 2024
- Mexico: Cocineros Solares invited Bank de Alimentos Querétaros members to join them for a solar cooked meal to celebrate the bank's food donation program
- Research: Solar Cookers International Performance Evaluation Process published by the scientific organization ELSEVIER
- Online: (EVENT) United Nations NGO Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Forum addresses solar cooking's potential to empower women while alleviating climate change, 14 March 2024, Session Two
- Kenya: COMPE is a new organization promoting sustainable cooking and farming techniques to community members in Kisumu
- Haiti: The Donne Orphanage receives additional solar panel cookers donated by Tom Hallquist
- Italy: Matteo Muccioli conducts a solar cooker construction workshop at the Flaminio Balestra
- Research: Experimental characterization of a foldable solar cooker with a trapezoidal cooking chamber and adjustable reflectors - Tariku Negash Demissie a, Sebastiano Tomassetti a, Claudia Paciarotti a, Matteo Muccioli b, Giovanni Di Nicola a c, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo d e - ScienceDirect
- United Kingdom: Luther Krueger video interviews Dave Oxford and friends about their solar cooking experiences
- (EVENT) France: 13-14 April 2024: Solar cooking gathering in Sorède, at the site of the historical solar furnace. Workshop on Saturday led by Celestino Ruivo
- Kenya: Preparing mandazi in a parabolic solar cooker at the Asulma Centre in Nairobi
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