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June 2025
- Advocacy: Dave Oxford and Stuart Maclachlan discuss how low solar cooker recognition is hampering adoption by the general public
- Sun coffee: Live-a-board sailor, John Lison, consistently solar cooks on board his boat, and has begun making sun coffee
- Advocacy: Cheryl Leutjen invites SCI Board Member Ruth Holton-Hodson to her YouTube podcast -'SOS! Solar Cooking Saves Women’s Lives!'
- Germany: Solarkochgeschichten
- Spain: Taller de Cocinas Solares video
- Zambia: Clement Musonda, of Rosa Solar Stoves, receives government grant to support clean energy and food security
- Design: Christophe Vincentz revisits the Ray-Grill parabolic cooker with Luther Krueger
- India: Bappu Deshmukh has announced the redesign of the popular SunVenture SmartCooker smaller solar box oven
- Italy: (EVENT) Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 6pm (Milan): Solar cooker construction workshop
- Solar tracking: Stan Wells explains a relay issue with some of his long-term trackers
- Kenya: Samuel Odhiambo of Integrated Solar Cooking - Kenya leads a solar cooking training in Machakos County
- United Kingdom: SLiCK helps organize a solar cooking gathering at local parkland near London
- CONSOLFOOD2025: Conference presentations becoming available for viewing on YouTube
May 2025
- Mexico: The inaugural course on solar cooking at the El Instituto de Energías Renovables (IER) UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Temixco, Morelos
- Dining at Le Présage: A review of meals served at Le Présage during CONSOLFOOD2025
- Research: Thermometer Comparison Experiment, Solar Cooker Technology Development, T. Hoffmann, Dev Eng, TMH 5-17-2025
- Heat-retention cooking: KotoThermosCooker Family
- Mali & Burundi: Tragically, war and cultural concerns over inequitable advantage causes the elimination of successful solar cooking projects
- Advocacy: Solar Cookers International's executive director, Caitlyn Hughes, is interviewed on Tal Radio about 'The Solar Shift: Empowering Lives and Protecting the Planet'
- Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan National Pavilion investigates the current scientific and cultural relevance of a modernist scientific structure, the Heliocomplex “Sun”, built in 1987 near Tashkent
- Design: Brian White demonstrates the latest successful experiments using his self-made parabolic cooker, the Sun Scoop
- USA: Soboba Tribal Earth Day 2025 is all about renewable energy - The Helmet & San Jacinto Chronicle
- United Kingdom: SF Innovations is a resource for heat-retention cooking appliances, solar tracking guidance, and improved-combustion biomass stoves
- Italy: (EVENT) 7-10 May 2025 - The Ecofuturo Festival returns to Rome for its 12th edition! This is a free event on eco-technological innovation, eco-training, and sustainable lifestyles. The Italian Solar Cooking Association will be present with their solar ovens
April 2025
- USA: (EVENT) 40th Annual Solar Potluck 31 May 2025 (7am-7pm) - Sponsored by the Solar Guild and Citizens for Solar, Valley of the Moon, Catalina State Park, Tucson, Arizona
- Research: Designer experiments with dual-axis solar tracking and explores reflector finishes
- Mexico: Solar cooker training and distribution in El Doctor, in Cadereytas, Qro., Mexico
- Algeria: PV-T hybrid solar kitchen receives best local innovation award in Adrar, Algeria
- Advocacy: Solar Cookers International (SCI) participates in the World Health Organization (WHO) Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, held in Cartagena, Colombia
- Kenya: Carolyn Olang initiates a solar cooking movement within her village in Migori, Kenya - Standardmedia
- Design: Inexpensively build the excellent Copenhagen Camouflage Solar Cooker - Instructables.com
- Haiti: Group's effort gets 29 boxes with solar cookers, materials to make solar cookers, along with tools to equip an orphanage student workshop
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