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News
August 2021
 | Solar bakery in India finds a market for healthy vegan cookies |
 | Solar Cookers International has been named as a winner of the Keeling Curve Prize for sustainable planet solutions! |
July 2021
June 2021
 | UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration in African drylands begins, with help from carbon credit incentives for solar cooking programs |
 | Solar Zentrum provides an online presentation from noted solar cooking advocates |
 | Solar Cookers International helping to provide solar cookers and other integrated cooking appliances to vulnerable groups within Nepal |
 | Luther Krueger created a video podcast interview series with contemporary solar cooking promoters, inventors, tinkerers and practitioners throughout the U.S. in 2020 |
 | The Solar Education Project directs attention to their local Hubbard Public Library, which offers several styles of solar cookers for lending |
 | The Solar Cookers World Network facebook group has reached 6000 members |
May 2021
 | Dave Oxford of SLiCK explains which type of heat trap works the best |
April 2021
 | GEF Small Grants Programme provided integrated cooking technology to El Salvador after Tropical Storm Stan |
 | The OPEC Fund Annual Award for Development (AAD) celebrates outstanding contributions to sustainable development, Nominations by 1 June 2021 |
| Solar Cookers International has been named as finalist in the Keeling Curve Prize for sustainable planet solutions |
 | Participants of the inaugural Women in Clean Cooking Mentorship Program |
 | Creating Entrepreneurs with Solar Energy - GoSol.org |
 | The Hidden Side of Energy Access: Understanding Clean Cooking - a four module e-course |
March 2021
 | SCI at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Virtual Event, dedicated in memory of the devoted solar cooking advocate Dar Curtis |
February 2021
 | NASA believes solar cooking will work well on the moon |
 | Artisans create solar bakery in Normandy, France |
January 2021
 | Bill Gates on how to invest in climate innovation by eliminating emissions, all the way to zero |
| The Keeling Curve Prize is accepting applications for innovative climate change solutions (application period is closed) |
Events
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New content
August 2021:
- Hybrid gas/solar stove: See Clement Musonda News for more detail on the hybrid stove he created in Zambia
- Keeling Curve Prize: Mongabay.com describes the impact Solar Cookers International has had with the promotion of solar cooking, leading to their award in the Social and Cultural Pathways category
- Report: Performance of solar funnel cookers using intermediate temperature test load under low sun elevation - Xabier Apaolaza-Pagoaga, Atul A. Sagade, Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo, Antonio Carrillo-Andrés, Solar Energy 2021, 225, 978-1000
- U.N. Sustainability Development Goals: Video interview with Wyldon Fishman, SCI Board member, on how solar cooking meets the United Nations' Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
- Document: Oportunidades para superar la pobreza extrema mediante la cooperación en la protección del clima
- American made solar competition: The U.S. Dept. of Energy is sponsoring a a multi-part competition to spur solar manufacturing, develop innovative solar solutions and products. The final phase is still open for submittals until 5 October 2021
- Photovoltaic cooking: Residents of This Village in India Do Not Need Wood or LPG to Cook, How Solar Power Changed Lives - News 18
- France news: Solar-baked bread? Recycled loaves? Bakers try something new in France - The Christian Science Monitor
- (EVENT) Conference: 22-26 November 2021: 2nd Mexican National Congress for Solar Drying and Cooking Food (Spanish)
- Heat storage: Sun Buckets presentation compares use with LPG
July 2021:
- Design: SUNGOOD solar panel cooker
- Mexico news: La Sazón del Sol prepares solar processed foods for sale near Oaxaca
- India bakery: Maharashtra: Jalna-based dentist makes sugar-free cookies using solar energy
- Webinar: Solar Cookers International and Public-Private Alliance Foundation members and advisors discuss how solar cooking can help meet the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- India manufacturer and vendor: Solar India
- Webinar: CONSOLFOOD presents the results of their solar bread baking short video request
- Hybrid solar oven: Steven Harrigan explains his hybrid rocket/solar cooker
- (EVENT) Webinar: Friday, 9 July 2021 10am-11:30am PDT, 1pm - 2:30pm EDT, 17:00 - 6:30 GMT: Solar Cookers International will be host a Side Event at the United Nation's High-level Political Forum 2021. Participation is free, but registration is required
- (EVENT) Online conversation: Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 10am EST, 14:00 GMT: The Clean Cooking Alliance has scheduled a conversation with Hillary Clinton. This a free event, but registration is required
- Institutional cooking: Joel Goodman's Thru-Reflector-Wall (TRW) concept sketches
- Solar tracking: Video of Alec Billroth's dual-axis tracker for a Sun Oven
- Solar drying: Video showing solar dryer manufactured by Rudra Solar Energy
June 2021:
- India news: Electrification of 19 Siachen villages to help Ladakh achieve carbon-neutrality target: Officials encourage solar cooking - The Hindu
- Chad news: Solar Cooking for Refugee Families in Chad - Gold Standard
- NGO news: AfriShiner's webpage to close, but solar cooking entrepreneurship continues to flourish
- Kenya news: Taxes help and hinder solar cooker sales in Kenya
- Solar tracking: Stan Wells shows a time-lapse video of his trackers responding to the morning sun
- France news: Low-tech sustainability video by Lytefire, incorporates cooking at scale with a solar array oven (in French w/captions)
- (EVENT) Webinar: Saturday 26 June 2021 1 pm CDMX, 13:00 GMT: La Sazón del Sol, located near Oaxaca, Mexico, has organized a facebook gathering to discuss solar cooking and solar food processing (Spanish)
- Kenya report: Example of Site Suitability Study for Kenya - Solar Household Energy
- Annual report: Solar Household Energy - 2020
- Research papers: Research studies of the HotPot
- Germany news: Solar Zentrum provides an online presentation from noted solar cooking advocates, available on YouTube
- Mexico news: 71-Year-Old Mexican Man Builds Solar Stoves Out Of Reused Materials - Intelligent Living
- Insulated solar electric cooking: Pete Schwartz presents a video of his team's latest findings
- Nepal news: Solar Cookers International assists in distributing solar cooking and related equipment to vulnerable groups within Nepal
- (EVENT) Webinar: Sunday, 4 July 2021, 13:30 - 15:30 GMT: CONSOLFOOD sponsors a solar bread baking webinar, with videos from over fifteen contributors (with Q & A). See event notice to register by 2 July.
- Refugee camp news: OPIN Offsets 100 Tonnes of Carbon CO2 - EinPressWire
- Interviews: Luther Krueger's cross-country USA video series of interviews with solar cooking advocates and inventors
- Glazing news article: Insulating Glass Keeps Getting Better - Fine Homebuilding
- Report: Opportunities in overcoming extreme poverty through cooperation on climate protection (English, German) - Dieter Seifert
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 30 June 2021, TBD: How Behavioral Science Can Help Increase Uptake and Sustained Use of Clean Energy in Developing Countries sponsored by the World Health Organization
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 16 June 2021, 14:30-16:00 CET, 12:30-14:00 GMT: Clean Cooking Data and Pathways to Achieving Progress sponsored by the World Health Organization
- (EVENT) Webinar: Tuesday, 15 June 2021, 2:55-3:55pm CEST, 12:55-1:55 GMT: European Development Days sponsors a discussion with sector leaders on increasing the momentum of health and energy sector cooperation to support political prioritization and investments in sustainable energy.
- Solar cooker lending: Hubbard Public Library in Ohio offers solar cookers for lending
- NGO news: Solar Household Energy has adopted the 100 Families Project that provides groceries, cooking devices, and other support for 100 families locked down in the Kariobangi slum in Nairobi Kenya.
- (EVENT) Open EWB meeting: Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 6pm CEST, 16:00 GMT: Taxes, technology, and solar cooking future with Engineers without Borders-Sweden, a Google discussion
- (EVENT) Insulated electric solar cooking: Thursday, 10 June 2021, 6pm CEST, 16:00 GMT: A Google meet conversation, hosted by Engineers without Borders-Sweden, to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the technology
May 2021:
- Household air pollution: How is Gas Harming Our Health? What You Need to Know - climatecouncil.au
- Kenya news: Millicent Anyango and Penia Nzioka organize workshops for clean-cooking products and food processing methods
- Uganda news: Esther Nattabi is building a manufacturing and retail business for clean-cooking products in Kampala
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 26 May 2021, (9:00am-10:00am EST, 10:00-12:00 GMT): Examine results of VAT on improved combustion cookstoves sponsored by the Clean Cooking Association
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 26 May 2021, (2:00pm - 2:50pm EST, 1:00-1:50 GMT): Clean Cooking A - Developing an Impact Bond Market to Finance Climate, Health, & Gender Co-Benefits from the Clean Cooking Association
- Unique cooking: SCWNET Zoom discussion on unique ways to solar cook - Pat McArdle
- Food drying: How Devang Joshi is helping farmers in becoming Atmanirbhar using the income generation model through Solar Dryers - Startup Times
- Improved-combustion woodstoves: How to make a brick Rocket Stove - Pinterest
- Solar data: Interactive global solar insolation map - Global Solar Atlas
- Video: New solar box cooker - Rudra Solar Energy
- Kenya NGO: Athel Technology Limited
- Glazing types: Dave Oxford of SLiCK explains which type of heat trap for your solar cooker works the best
- (EVENT) Online conference: 21-22 May 2021 - Food quality, solar cooking, drying, farming, gardening: Sponsored by The Solar Centre Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. 21st in English, 22nd auf Deutsch
- Solar cooking smoker: Head Chef Joshua Murray at the Conrad Hotel in Washington, D.C. has discovered a way to turn a solar box cooker into a meat smoker
- Kenya news: Innovative Solar Cooker, Transforming Households - Kenya Climate Innovation Center
- Wiki article: PEP tested solar cookers
- Report: The development of a portable vessel for the collection, storage, and utilization of solar thermal energy for household use] - Matthew Paul Alonso
April 2021:
- El Salvador news: GEF Small Grants Programme provided integrated cooking technology after Tropical Storm Stan
- (EVENT) Conference: 6-10 February 2022 - The World Renewable Energy Congress XXI, will hosted by Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. They request proposals for presentation
- Evacuated tube cooker design: GoSun's latest solar cooker has electrical back-up capabilities
- Portugal news: Tamera, based in Reliquias, addresses global problems with low-tech solutions, which include solar energy storage concepts
- Heat storage: Jürgen Kleinwächter explains creating a low-tech solution for heat storage and electricity production.
- Journal article: Phase change thermal storage: Cooking with more power and versatility - Pete Schwartz, et al
- Conference papers: Encuentro Solar 2004
- Conference papers: Encuentro Solar 2003
- Conference papers: Encuentro Solar 2002
- Keeling Curve Prize: Solar Cookers International has been named as a finalist for the Keeling Curve Prize for sustainable planet solutions
- Haiti news: Young solar cooking advocate brings STEM workshops to primary schools in Haiti
- Benin news: Youth network partners with Inti to create solar food drying venture
- Clean Cooking Alliance:Participants of the inaugural Women in Clean Cooking Mentorship Program
- (EVENT) Webinar: 22 April 2012 (TBD): Clean Cooking Alliance - Transitioning to Clean Cooking will focus on conducting national health and energy assessments
- Business opportunities: Creating Solar Entrepreneurs with Solar Energy - GoSol.org
- Carbon credit mechanisms: Aligning with Paris, The voluntary market in transition - Carbon Mechanisms Review
- India news: Indore: People share their journey of solar cooking as an environment-friendly option, Jimmy McGilligan Memorial Week - The Free Press Journal
- NGO news: Zenaga Foundation promotes access to clean energy and environmental sustainability
- Photovoltaic cooking: Craig Bergland experiments using nichrome wire as a 12v heating element to assist cooking with a solar box cooker
- Box cooker resource: Calculator for the angles of four-sided reflectors
- (EVENT) Webinar: (TBD) - CONSOLFOOD is requesting videos of solar cooks baking bread for use in a future webinar
- (EVENT) Conference: 24-26 January 2022 - The 4th CONSOLFOOD 2022 international solar thermal food processing conference will be held in Faro, Portugal, abstracts for presentation are being accepted
- Democratic Republic of the Congo NGO: Nabahya Food Institute is a community based commune promoting energy efficient cooking strategies
- (EVENT) Webinar: Thursday, 29 April 2021 (2:00pm - 3:30am CEST, 12:00 - 1:30 GMT):Understanding the multilateral climate funds - This will be the last webinar of The Women and Gender Constituency three-part series. This Zoom event is free but registration is required
- (EVENT) Webinar: Thursday, 15 April 2021 (2:00pm - 3:30am CEST, 12:00 - 1:30 GMT):Improving capacities to access funding - The Women and Gender Constituency invites you to the second of their three-part webinar series. This Zoom event is free but registration is required
- (EVENT) Webinar: Thursday, 1 April 2021 (2:00pm - 3:30am CEST, 12:00 - 1:30 GMT):, Exploring the Funding Landscape - The Women and Gender Constituency invites you to the first of their three-part webinar series. This Zoom event is free but registration is required
March 2021:
- (EVENT) Webinar: Saturday, 24 April 2021 (6am-7:30am PST, 13:00 -14:30 GMT), Adventures with Solar and Haybox Cooking - SF Innovation LTD, with Seggy Segaran, will discuss experiences with solar and haybox cooking, and also the improved combustion cook stoves they use. This Zoom event is free but registration is required
- New Zealand vendor: Taste of Sun
- NGO CSW 65 Forum video: SCI at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Virtual Event, dedicated in memory of Dar Curtis, devoted solar cooking advocate
- Manufactured solar cooker: The HotPot solar cooker is again available for purchase
- Carbon Offsets: New information on carbon offset mechanisms - Carbon Market Watch
- (EVENT) rescheduled: 30 September - 2 October 2021 (Jakarta): 7th SOLARTECH Indonesia
- Solar cooker design: ETE ETMATE evacuated tube solar cooker
- (EVENT) Webinar: Sunday, 21 March 2021 (16:45-17:50 GMT), CONSOLFOOD, The Lightoven - how solar cooking changes the cook - Dr. Hartmut Ehmler
- Solar cooker design: Stockton Solar Oven evacuated tube construction videos: Parts 1 & 2
- Kenya news: Kenya recognised globally for promotion of clean cooking - The Star
- Report: Solar Dryers - A Basic Compendium - Bernhard Müller
- (EVENT) Webinar: Saturday, 13 March 2021 (2am-3:30am PST, 10:00-11:30 GMT), Adventures with Solar and Haybox Cooking - SF Innovation LTD, with Seggy Segaran, will discuss experiences with solar and haybox cooking, also the range of fuel efficient cook stoves available. Event is free but registration is equired
- Report: Chancen bei der Überwindung extremer Armut durch Kooperation beim Klimaschutz - Dieter Seifert
- Manufacturer news: TinyTech Plants in Gujarat, India, is liquidating 1.2 mt parabolic cooker framework stock
- India news: New, larger Scheffler reflector replacement at the Green Campus, Vankuva School
- Kenya news: The Republic of Kenya has been awarded the Solar Cookers International Order of Excellence for progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goals for 2020
February 2021:
- Photovoltaic cooking: Developments by Alexis Ziegler on high output direct PV cooking
- EPA Study: Final Report: Designing a Low Cost Solar Oven for Rural Native American Communities
- Testing: Testing of the Burns-Millwaukie's Sun Oven, March 1997
- Household air pollution: PCIA Bulletin - Solar Cooking, Jan. 2010
- (EVENT) NGO CSW 65 Forum: 14-26 March 2021, SCI's Executive Director, Caitlyn Hughes, will speak, along with other solar cooking leaders, on Thursday, March 25. Registration is full, but the program will be broadcast simultaneously on the SCI facebook page
- Mexico project evaluation: The Ambassador-Led Social Enterprise in Oaxaca, Mexico: Sustainably Spreading Solar Cooking in Rural Communities - Solar Household Energy
- Photovoltaic cooking: PV panels connected directly to insulated cooker
- Design: ULOG 1.0
- France news: NeoLoco is a bakery in Normandy offering local solar roasted seeds and baked goods
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 (8:00am-9:30am MST, 3:00-4:30 GMT) ASHES will discuss experimental interventions to facilitate clean cookstove adoption
- Vietnam news: Green Impact supports the victims of flooding and landslides in Central Vietnam
- (EVENT) Webinar: Wednesday, 24 February 2021 (5:00pm-6:30pm WAT, 4:00-5:30 GMT) ReEnegy Africa presents Corporate Governance and Access to Finance in Africa - How to Narrow the gap?
- NGO news: Solar Oven Partners leaders discuss their latest oven fabrication and training program in video interview
- Photovoltaic cooking: Combining PV panels with retained heat cooking strategies to achieve low cost results
- Canada news: Green entrepreneur donates solar cookers to northern communities - NNSL Media
- Funding resource: GrantWatch - a subscription service providing information on available grants
January 2021:
- Climate innovation: Bill Gates on how to invest in climate innovation by eliminating emissions, all the way to zero - TIME
- Article in the media: The TIME 2030 Committee Offers 8 Solutions for a More Equitable and Sustainable Future (featuring noted chef José Andrés speaking on clean cookstove cooking) - TIME
- Photovoltaic cooking: Insulated Solar Electric Cooker- Progress for ETHOS 2021, Pete Schwartz, Cal Poly Physics (video)
- (EVENT) ETHOS Virtual Conference: 24-29 January 2021, 15:00-17:30 GMT each day. The conference unites the cookstove and clean cooking community
- Paint news: A new paint that is billed as the flattest black acrylic paint now available
- Refugee camp news: The solar cooking project project in the Iridimi Refugee Camp in Kenya has been taken over by the Dutch NGO Fair Climate Fund
- Technical video: DARE to Solar Cook - The Physics of Cooking with Sunshine (hosted by Carnegie Science Center
- Individual: Craig Bergland
- Testing report: A low-cost method for measuring solar irradiance using a lux meter - Paul Arveson
- Testing report: Instructions for conducting solar cooker power tests using commercial instruments - Paul Arveson
- Testing report: Recommended manufacturer’s information to accompany a cookstove - Paul Arveson
- Testing report: Procedure for determining the intercept area of a solar cooker - Paul Arveson
- (EVENT) Webinar: Sunday, 24 January 2021 (14:30-16:50 EU, GMT) Spreading our passion for solar cooking with CONSOLFOOD
- (EVENT) Webinar: Thursday, 14 January 2021 (8:00-9:00am PST, 11:00-12:00pm EST, 16:00-17:00 GMT) Opportunities and Challenges of Carbon Credits for Solar Cooking
- Spain news: Andalusian Government seminar on energy poverty addresses solar cooking
- India news: Madhya Pradesh: Indore’s Janak Palta McGilligan gets international recognition for pioneering solar cooking - The Free Press Journal
- USA news: Grant for solar cooker lending program at public library in Ohio
- Innovation award: The Keeling Curve Prize is accepting applications for innovative climate change solutions (apply by February 10th)
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