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Cucinare con il Sole is a volunteer organization founded in 2006 by Ottorino Saccon, a teacher and craftsman, and is based in Santa Lucia di Piave TV, Italy. They produce parabolic solar cookers at their facility, and have been introducing solar cooking to villages throughout central Africa, making 3 - 4 trips each year. They have worked with over thirty groups in workshops, typically with 10 - 20 participants attending.

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COP29 logo, 9-20-24
  • NEW: 11-22 November 2024 (Baku, Azerbaijan ): COP29 - The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, will be the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference to be held at Baku Stadium. More information...
SEforAll logo, 7-25-24
  • 12-14 March 2025 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - Building on Prime Minister Mottley’s Bridgetown Initiative for the reform of development finance, the Forum will address the challenge of how we can mobilize sufficient finance on the right terms to meet global goals, especially for the most underserved communities, countries and regions – such as Small Island Developing States. The event wil be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All and the Government of Barbados, led by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. Project site visits will take place Friday, 14 March. More information...

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CONSOLFOOD 2025 logo, 4-28-24
  • The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15th December 2024 - Advances in Solar Thermal Food Processing (CONSOLFOOD2025) is being planned for the 5th, 6th and 7th of May, 2025 in Marseille, France. The gathering expects to attract, once again, top experts from all over the world to present and discuss topics related to advances in solar food processing and solar cooking. An exhibition of solar cookers will be available for viewing during the conference at the nearby the solar restaurant Le Présage. The solar restaurant, along with the demonstration cookers, will produce a solar lunch. The whole conference program will be delivered in hybrid format, so those who register, but are not present at Marseille, will be able to participate online. Your abstracts should be sent via email to Celestino Ruivo at cruivo@ualg.pt in .doc, .docx, or pdf format. You should limit your abstract to 400 words, and follow these guidelines. All abstracts will be reviewed and assessed by members of the scientific committee. The organizing committee will inform each author whether their submitted abstract has been accepted. The committee encourages all authors to write an optional full length paper for inclusion in our conference proceedings. Successful authors should pre-record their presentations, using Powerpoint, or similar software. They will be invited to submit either a) a short presentation, of about 7 minutes duration, or b) a longer presentation, of about 25 minutes to cruivo@ualg.pt by 30th March 2025. The expected conference fee is 200 euros before 1st April 2025. Interested people facing financial difficulties should contact the organizing committee.
See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Italy

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Matteo Muccioli workshop, 2-19-24

Flaminio Balestra workshop, Photo credit: Matteo Muccioli

  • February 2024: Kimono Solar Cooker workshop: - Matteo Muccioli conducted a solar cooker construction workshop of his Kimono Solar Cooker, at the Flaminio Balestra, during the M'illumino di meno 2024 event at the Tito Balestra Onlus Foundation.
Ricettario cover, 6-26-23
  • June 2023: Castelfranco Veneto is a solar cooking center founded by Davide Milani in northern Italy. Members shared their recipes, and created this community-based solar cookbook in PDF format, free for all to download and use. Conveniently, the cookbook is written in Italian with companion text in English. Have a look, and maybe pick up a little Italian along the way. Download a copy
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Centro Cottura Solare CFV hosts a workshop for people building their own solar cookers. Photo credit: Davide Milani

  • February 2023: The Centro Cottura Solare CFV, under the direction of Davide Milani, resumes their informative construction courses on solar ovens. Since May 2022, they have helped people to build 218 ovens. Then they follow their students, after they build their oven, by means of a dedicated telegram support group. The requests to participate in the courses are becoming more numerous, with people coming from other regions of Italy.
Matteo Muccioli demo, 2-13-23

Matteo Muccioli presented a demonstration/construction workshop at the Planetarium of Ravenna in Italy

  • February 2023: Matteo Muccioli presented a demonstration/construction workshop at the Planetarium of Ravenna in Ravenna, Italy, for members of the VII National Conference on Astronomy Education of the UAI (Italian Amateur Astronomers Union) at their gathering. He presented solar ovens and held a Kimono Solar Cooker construction workshop for twelve teachers from all over Italy.
  • December 2022: The Centro Cottura Solare CFV concludes its activities for 2022 with 177 ovens built, over 200 course participants, requests for participation from other regions of Italy, and reservations for new courses that will start in January 2023 -- a success in spreading solar culture in a new area.
  • September 2022: Local solar cooking support - Davide Milani, living in Italy, is the designer of the modular Gengha Solar Oven. An enthusiastic advocate for solar cooking, he has created Il centro cottura solare di Castelfranco Veneto, which offers theoretical and pratical courses on solar cooking, support, and advice at no expense. As of September 2022, they have helped build 82 ovens, 63 are in use, and 45 are in daily use. There are five permanent collaborators, two on-call, fielding requests from new people and groups, and hoping to reach 100 solar ovens assembled by the end of the year.
  • October 15, 2022: Davide Milani reports, "The courses of the center continue, which to date has contributed to the construction of 143 ovens of which 81 in constant use. Word of mouth contributes to the spread of solar culture and more and more people are joining the courses. Thanks to an agreement with a large deposit of plastic materials they are able to provide their students at cost price, the material necessary to make the ovens."
Purosole coffee roaster, 11-8-21

Antonio Durbe standing with the Pursole solar array coffee roaster in Rome, Photo credit: Andrew Medichini

  • November 2021: Solar coffee roasting - Two engineers in Rome, Antonio Durbe and Daniele Tummei, have created an environmentally friendly way to roast coffee beans without electricity or gas. They have spent almost six years building and perfecting their sunlight coffee roaster. The result is a system that needs a piece of land about the size of half a tennis court and sunny weather to roast up to 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of coffee an hour. Read more...
Solar Cooking at Scuola Comasca Rimini

Solar cooking at Scuola Comasca Rimini

MSC3 Festa de Borg 2016
  • Patate Arrosto Forno a Scatola e Panoramica Forni Solari
Cucinare con il Sole, villagers with first solar meal, 1-21-14
  • Novembre 2013: Cucinare con il Sole è organizzata da volontariato fondata nel 2006 da Ottorino Saccon , insegnante e artigiano, con sede a Santa Lucia di Piave TV, in Italia . Producono cucine solari paraboliche nella loro struttura in Italia e hanno inserito la cottura solare nei paesi dell'Africa centrale, effettuando 3-4 viaggi all'anno. Hanno lavorato con oltre 30 gruppi in officina, in genere con 10-20 partecipanti. A Sessene, a 15 chilometri dalla città di Thies, in Senegal , gli abitanti del villaggio assemblano il loro primo fornello solare. Poco dopo, all'ombra di una madre di baobab, condividono un pasto a base di riso cotto e verdure.

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  • May 2020: 
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    SOLAR COOKING COTTURE SOLARI-0

    Conoscete la cottura solare? In questo video spiego come funziona, con esempi di forni, fornelli e barbecue solari (voice and subtitles in Italian). Info: andrea mameli

  • May 2016:
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Cuochi solari bolognesi (bolognese solar chefs)

e caffè solare, pane, pizza, focacce e torte, zuppe, pop corn e....tagliatelle bolognesi fatte sul posto e cotte al solare! Video by Compagnia dello Zukkero, Italy. https://sites.google.com/site/tambababologna/

  • October 2012:
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  • February 2010:
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