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Solar Cookers International at COP25: Building Solar Cooking Capacity Worldwide (Listen On-Demand)

SCI presents solar cooking to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at COP25 in Madrid

Dr. Alaa Hamadto establishes Solar Foods in Khartoum, Sudan employing 25 and selling in local supermarkets

The PRINCE-40 community solar cooker wins Indian national award

COP25 rescheduled to take place in Feria de Madrid in Madrid, Spain from 2 to 13 December 2019

Electric cooking starts to simmer in rural India

Manufacturers can now schedule a Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) test of their solar cookers

Solar Cookers International releases SCI Toolkit

CONSOLFOOD2020 international conference to be held January 2020 in Faro, Portugal

Events

International conferences

• 22-24 January 2020 (Faro, Portugal): CONSOLFOOD2020 - To be held at the Institute of Engineering, Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha. The conference will focus on solar thermal food processing. The deadline for receipt of abstracts was 15 June 2019. More information... 

Brazil

• 12-14 May 2020 (Tubarão, Santa Catarina): ENSUS 2020 - O ENSUS reúne professores, técnicos, alunos e comunidade que buscam pela sustentabilidade integrada aos projetos e ao desenvolvimento de novos produtos, nas áreas de Arquitetura, Engenharia e Design. More information...

United States

Connecticut

• 4-5 April 2020 (New Haven): Global Health & Innovation Conference - At this 17th annual conference, learn from more than 200 speakers who are committed to effective, responsible programs in health, development, entrepreneurship, and education. More information...

Minnesota

• NEW: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 (Minneapolis): Cooking With Sunlight - Learn the history and benefits of solar cooking at a presentation to be held at Southwest High School, located at 3414 W 47th St, from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. There will be a display of a variety of commercially available solar cookers, and attendees will be shown how easy they are to use to cook anything. Luther Krueger, presenting the program, has designed, used, and promoted solar cookers since 2004. He is known in the international solar cooking community for cooking in subzero weather and holding possibly the largest individual collection of unique cookers. More information...

Washington

• NEW: 25-27 January 2019 (Kirkland): Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) Cookstoves Conference 2019 - More information...

See also

• Past events
• Conferences
• Organizing solar cooking events

New content

• Facebook group: SolarcookingIntroduction
• (EVENT) 26 February 2020 (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA): Cooking With Sunlight: Learn the history, benefits, and use of solar cooking
• Parabolic cooker purchase site: Purchase the BS-M1 model in quantity on Alibaba
• Heat-retention cooking guide: The Fireless Cooker - Faustine Wama
• UK Facebook group: Solar Cooking UK
• Mozambique report: Solar cooking in Mozambique – an investigation of end-user’s needs for the design of solar cookers - Pia Otte

• Portugal Facebook group: SunOK
• Video: World Central Kitchen 2019 in Review
• Video: First use of the Suntaste cork solar cooker by enthusiast Alan Howell.
• (EVENT) 25-27 January 2019 (Kirkland, Washington, USA): Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) Cookstoves Conference 2019
• Rawanda news: Science title at the Miss Career East Africa awards won with solar cooker presentation.
• Manufacturer news: TinyTech Plants in India is closing and selling its remaining inventory
• India news: Learn to Build Solar Cookers from IITian Who Quit His Job to Teach 1.2 Lakh Kids - The Better India
• USA NGO: Global Solar Education Project
• Qatar news: Climate Change Conference Highlights Innovative Mitigation Technologies in Sectors - IISD
• Audio interview: Andreas Müller-Hermann – Private Flüchtlingshilfe auf Lesbos - (English version)
• Video: Interview with Haitian Marie Mica on her experience in using a Solavore solar oven.
• Video: Cooking with an evacuated-tube SUNWINGS cooker in cloudy weather
• On-demand presentation: Solar Cookers International at COP25: Building Solar Cooking Capacity Worldwide
• Audio interview: Dr. Alan Bigelow of SCI - Testing Solar Cookers (First minute is in German, but the rest is in English)
• SCI news: Solar Cookers International presents solar cooking to Speaker Nancy Pelosi at COP25
• Portugal NGO: Cozinhar com o Sol
• Portugal Facebook group: Cozinhar com o Sol
• Audio interview: Monika Grühn – Solarkocher für Kenia
• Audio interview: Marlen Breitinger – Solarkocher, Sun and Ice
• Manual: Construction guide for the Dierkx solar box cooker
• Manufacturer news: Sun Ovens International secures distribution partnerships in Australia and Canada - Yahoo Finance
• Refugee camp video: Solar cookers shown in use in Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal - Vajra Foundation Nepal
• Conference news: MME at COP25 presents tech solutions to meet green challenges - Gulf Times
• Travel journal: SCI's Alan Bigelow's Journal on Kakuma Refugee Camp visit
• Video: In attendance at the United Nations COP25 conference, SCI's executive director briefly explains the case for solar cooking.
• Clean Development Mechanism: U.K.-based EasyJet Airline now buys carbon offsets for all of its flights
• Non-cooking uses: Artificial intelligence increases solar focus
• Solar drying video: The range of solar dryers from Rudra Solar Energy
• Sudan solar food drying company: Solar Foods

• Zambia Facebook group: Solar Cooking in Zambia!
• Honduras Facebook group: Clima Renovable Honduras
• India news: Solar Cooking Journey - Alzubair Saiyed
• Photovoltaic solar cooking video: Students of IIT Bombay have invented solar stove.
• Heat storage video: UNesar on DD Girnar
• Kenya news: Kenyan Ministry of Energy launches first national Gender Policy in the energy sector ever - Energia
• Funding resource: Financing Decentralized Renewable Energy for the Last Mile - Energypedia
• Video: Building a Dierx solar box cooker - Solar Cooker Workgroup Sliedrecht NL
• (EVENT) 1 December 2019 (Bengalaru, India): Building a portable Solar Cooker Workshop - Live cooking with the Sun
• Design: SUNWINGS evacuated-tube solar cooker - Simplified Technologies for Life
• Photovoltaic solar cooking report: Solar Powered Induction Cooking System - Sibiya & Venugopal
• (EVENT) 25-26 November 2019 (Berlin): Energy Transition in the Arab World
• USA news: Solar Cookers International to exhibit and advocate at COP25 conference in Madrid, Spain
• DRC NGO: PNUD en République démocratique du Congo
• India news: Gujarat Man Helps Tribal Women Make Solar Cookers That Cost Just Rs 100! - The Better India
• Design award: The PRINCE-40 community solar cooker wins Indian national award
• Kenya news: Long way to Kenya’s dream of clean energy - The East African
• Solar drying video: Solar Conduction and Convection Dryer - Rudra Solar Energy
• Event news: CONSOLFOOD2020 Preliminary programme
• Switzerland news: EPFL creates a solar cooker with solid potential in Switzerland
• Germany Facebook group: Kochen mit Sonnenlicht
• India Facebook group: Solar Cooker India
• Design: Jo Muller of Australia has built an evacuated-tube solar cooker built into plastic toolbox.
• Vendor: The CooKit solar panel cooker can be purchased from Solar Cookers International inside the United States
• Design: Jumbo version of the Fun-Panel solar cooker - Elmo Dutra
• Data: Over three million solar cookers and counting...
• Report: Using pressure cookers with a solar cooker and heat-retention - Elmo Dutra
• WhatsApp group: Fogão Solar Brasil
• (EVENT) Brazil event: 12-14 May 2020 (Tubarão, Santa Catarina): ENSUS 2020
• Solar pioneer: Celebrating the Sun Queen (Mária Theresa Telkes) - SWE Magazine
• Wiki article: Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)