March 2024
- 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. provides 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
January 2024
- Kenya: Haines solar cookers to be constructed and distributed at the Kakuma Refugee Camp
- Education: Ivan Yaholnitsky assembles an evacuated tube box oven as part of the Global Makers series
- Haiti: Eliesheriff Joseph organizes a solar cooking demonstration and meal for 565 people in Hinche
- Education: Sharon Clausson demonstrates the assembly of the Copenhagen solar cooker as part of the Global Makers series
- India: Successful Launch of ‘Suryotsava: Nutan Aarambh’ Pilot Project Marks a Milestone in Clean & Sustainable Cooking in India - Solarquarter
- CONSOLFOOD webinars: A number of past CONSOLFOOD webinars are now available
- France: NeoLoco Solar Bakery, adapting a business to solar energy, 9th Webinar CONSOLFOOD - Arnaud Crétot
- Scheffler community kitchen: A video has resurfaced profiling the Scheffler array solar cooking system installed at the Shirdi temple in India
- Book: Cooking with Cardboard, by Jed Wubben, describes ways to inexpensively create a solar cooker with recycled materials
- Wall oven: Luther Krueger interviews the 'Frugal Green Girl' about her experiences installing a simple window solar cooker
- Solar tracking: Stan Wells demonstrates his latest dual axis parabolic solar cooker tracker
- Solar cooking history: The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development in India and Mexico, 1878–1966 - Elizabeth Chatterjee
- Solar cooking advocate: Luther Krueger interviews Michael Bonke, the oral solar cooking historian, at CONSOLFOOD2023 in Spain, July 2023
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