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Solar cooking around the world[]
Top News
June 2025
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May 2025
 | The inaugural course on solar cooking at the El Instituto de Energías Renovables (IER) UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Temixco, Morelos |
 | Sara Rosen, SCI Program Coordinator, reviews meals served at the solar restaurant, Le Présage, during CONSOLFOOD2025' |
 | Solar Cookers International's executive director, Caitlyn Hughes, is interviewed on Tal Radio about 'The Solar Shift: Empowering Lives and Protecting the Planet' |
 | Tragically, war and cultural concerns over inequitable advantage causes the elimination of successful solar cooking projects in Mali and Burundi |
April 2025
 | Designer creatively experiments with dual-axis solar tracking and explores reflector finishes |
 | Solar cooker training and distribution in El Doctor, in Cadereytas, Qro., Mexico |
 | PV-T hybrid solar kitchen receives best local innovation award in Adrar, Algeria |
 | Carolyn Olang initiates a solar cooking movement within her village in Migori, Kenya |
 | Inexpensively build the excellent Copenhagen Camouflage Solar Cooker |
 | Group's effort gets 29 boxes with solar cookers, materials to make solar cookers, along with tools to equip an orphanage student workshop in Haiti |
Events
Featured international events[]
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Italy[]
- NEW: Saturday, 5 July 2025 (Il Rassecale): Solar Cooking Day - All members and enthusiasts are invited to meet and exchange experiences of solar cooking cooking and recipes, construction and use of solar ovens and cookers at Fattoria Sociale “Il Rassecale” Via Perrotta 32 - 83036 Mirabella Eclano (AV), Associazione Italiana Cucina Solare AICS APS, www.aicucinasolare.it, (directions) info@aicucinasolare.it (Facebook link)
Mexico[]
- 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
Awards and grants[]
Several small grant programs without deadlines for application are listed below. For information on how to develop a funding application, with a complete list of other funding sources see: Raising funds through grants and donations. Awards programs will be added as they are announced.
- 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
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
For older news, events, and new-content log, please see the Solar cooking news archive.
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