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Watch on-demand: 'The Clean, Sustainable Cooking Solution - Solar Thermal,' presented by Solar Cookers International and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

Successful AfriShiners clean cooking and food processing workshop in Kampala, Uganda

4000 Darfuri women at Iridimi Refugee Camp in Chad have qualified for and received Carbon Credits from the UN Gold Standard Foundation

Yerwada Jail inmates receive solar cooking system to reduce use of gas cylinders

The Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development has its first solar food fest

CONSOLFOOD 2018 presentations and posters are now available

Dr. Ajay Chandak of Promoters, Researchers and Innovators in New and Clean Energy receives Gold Prize at WINTREX in Indonesia

Indian Prime Minister Modi makes appeal for cooking through solar power

Shark Tank: One Earth Designs accepts $500,000 offer from Mark Cuban

Continued success for solar cooking business in Mali

Profitable solar cooker business thrives in Mbarara, Uganda

Community solar cookers can save fuel, says expert

Detailed information on the Solar-Trough-Baking-Oven now available

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• Education news: Innovative Teacher Earns $20,000 Grant - Lesson #1: Solar Cooking
• International scouting news: Scouts go Solar - Issue no. 3: January - July 2018
• Vietnam video: Benefit your community
• Wiki article: AfriShiners
• Classroom resources: Solar Cookers are Tools for Education - Global Development Solutions
• India news: After Saubhagya, govt plans induction stoves for the poor - livemint
• EVENT: 13-14 April 2019 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA) - 16th Annual 'Unite for Sight' Global Health & Innovation Conference

• Test results: Solar Cookers International Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) results (as of August 28, 2018)
• Namibia news: Namibia: Learning How to Cook On Solar in Five Days - allAfrica
• Hybrid cooker news: Electric Solar Hybrid Cooker - Jane & Seggy Segaran
• Evacuated tube supplier: Large Solar Oven/Stove Evacuated 4" Glass Vacuum Tube Cooker Grill BBQ Prepper Rand Solar - Amazon.com
• Hybrid solar cooker report: Performance characteristics of a new hybrid solar cooker with air duct - Abhishek Saxena and Nitin Agarwal
• Testing report: Experimental determination of effective concentration ration for a solar box - Atul Sagade
• India news: Awareness On Energy Savings For School Children Held - Star of Mysore
• EVENT: Thursday, 30 August 2018 (Sacramento, California, USA): Solar Cookers International's 30th Anniversary Celebration
• Wiki article: The Remote Solar Cooking System
• China news: Solar cooker demonstration in Dezhou, China reveals the potential for solar cookers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions - PilotOnline.com
• Solar/PV hybrid cooker news: SunPod-Interview: Seggy Segaran – solar/electric hybrid cooker
• India news: PM reviews performance of key infrastructure sectors of Energy and Mining - Business Standard
• Handbook: Everything Under the Sun: Food Storage for the Solar Oven - Wendy DeWitt
• Manufacturer news: Take your cooking completely off the grid with this portable, solar-electric oven on Kickstarter - Mashable
• USA news: Solar Sister, Jennifer Gasser, demonstrates a parabolic solar cooker at Paul C. Bunn Elementary School in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. - Youngstown Vindicator
• India news: SMC to develop ‘green campus’ in 15 of its primary schools in Surat - Times of India
• Associate news: Local family cooks food using nothing but the sun

• Carbon credits: Carbon Mechanisms Review 02-2018: Paving the Way - German Ministry of the Environment
• Wiki article: Sun Oven India
• Testing standards: ISO/TC 285: Clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions
• Uganda news: Haines 2.0 Solar Cooker evaluated at refugee camps
• NGO news: SHE leads consortium to launch solar and biogas social enterprise in Haiti
• Conference poster: Solar Cooking in South Brazil: Dissemination and Barriers - Elmo Dutra
• Frequently-asked questions: Efficient cookstoves and cooking energy for healthier living - GIZ
• Conference poster: The Behavior of Steam Inside a Vacuum Evacuated Tube - Faustine Odaba, NAREWAMA
• Testing document: Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) for Solar Cookers - Dr. Alan Bigelow
• Conference paper: Solar Cooking with Heat Storage: Experiments using PCM and figures of merits for solar cookers (Slides) - António Lecuona
• India news: Centre plans to introduce solar cooking facilities for every rural household in next 4-5 years, says Piyush Goyal - Mumbai Mirror
• Conference paper: Key Disruptors for the 21st Century - Julie Greene
• Conference paper: Mediterranean Diet - past present, and future of solar food processing (Solar food processing in Mediterranean Algarve) - Nídia Braz
• Conference presentation: SunCook, From Plastic to Cork - Manuel Collares Pereira
• Conference paper: The Durabilitity of Evacuated Solar Cooking Tubes - Somae Preliminary Field Trials - Dave Oxford and Stewart Maclachlan
• Conference presentation: Sustainable Development by Integrating Use of Solar Cookers for Organic Products - Janak McGilligan
• Conference presentation: Solar Food Processing in Eastern Africa - a Summary - Bernhard Müller
• Conference presentation: Evolution of Solar Concentrating Technologies in India - Deepak Gadhia
• Haiti news: SCI's Dr. Alan Bigelow worked with Rose Bazile to teach solar cooking tecnology
• Conference presentation: Evaluation of Renewable Energy Sources in Africa - Daniel Ayuk Mbi Egbe, et al
• Conference presentation: Solar Cookers in the Antarctic, Solar Restaurants in Desert Areas, Use as Adaptable Solar Dryers - Pedro Serrano
• Photovoltaic-cooker news: GoSun Goes Hybrid with New Fusion Solar + Electric Cooker - The Spoon
• Photovoltaic-cooker design: GoSun Fusion with PV powered electric heating element
• Guinea news: Two day solar cooking training in Conakry
• India news: Awareness On Energy Savings For ITI Students - Star of Mysore

• Solar cooker design: Solar cooker design to fit in a window
• Solar cooker design: Datta Adjustable Panel Cooker
• Reflector construction: Making Petals of Solar Cookers with Mylar and Alveolar PP Sheets - Elmo Dutra
• Interview: Michael Bonke interviews Dr. Pia Otte – Developing solar energy technologies for and with people (First minute in German, interview in English)
• Uganda news: Successful AfriShiners clean cooking and food processing workshop in Kampala.
• Book: Cocina Solar, alternativa energética sustentable Modelo matemático y construcción física - Bernardo Sosa
• Book: Cocinas solares: alternativa energética para el medio rural Desarrollo, implementación y apropiación - Bernardo Sosa
• Solar cooker design: Cuiseur Solaire Pliable
• Document: Lamentation of a Village Elder - Dieter Seifert
• Madagascar news: ADES Annual Report: 2017
• Evacuated tube cookers: The Durability of Evacuated Solar Cooking Tubes - Some Preliminary Field Trials; (and possibilities for a metal-lined Rand tube) - Dave Oxford & Stewart Maclachlan
• Solar cookbook: More Solar Oven Cooking - Merry Bevill
• Institutional cooking news: Yerwada Jail Inmates Get Solar Panels, Cooking Systems To Reduce Use Of Gas Cylinders - Mid-Day
• Absorbant coating research paper: Desarrollo de un Recubrimiento Absorbente Solar de Bajo Costo Basado en Hollín de Biomasa Forestal: Caracterazación Térmica y Aplicación en un Sistema de Cocción Solar - Bernardo López-Sosa, et al
• EVENT: 1-6 August 2018, (Lusaka, Zambia): 92nd Agriculture & Commercial Show will include solar cooking displays organized by Clement Musonda
• EVENT: 9 June 2018, Sunday (Washburn, Wisconsin, USA): Dandelion Days Festival at Wikdal Park will include solar cooking demonstration
• NGO news: Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil Rapport d’activités 2017
• Morocco news: MAROC - De nouvelles coopératives équipées de séchoirs solaires - (English version)
• Haiti news: Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil visits Haiti to consult on improving the cooking situation in rural areas - (English version)
• Photovoltaic cooker design: SolaCooka

• Photovoltaic hybrid cooking: Photovoltaic panel supplements solar box cooker
• Nepal news: FoST demonstrates production of biomass briquettes and solar cooking in Lapu Village (video)
• Solar drying research: Natural convection flow in a solar dryer geometry - José Núñez and Bernardo López-Sosa
• India news: An insight into the world of Sustainable living - The Times of India
• Individual promoter: Bernardo Sosa
• Wiki article: Tolokatsin Solar Cooker
• Wiki article: SolarFlex Food Dryer
• Solar drying news: Wasting Less of Africa’s Harvest in Order to Prosper - The New York Times
• Refugee camp news: Derk Rijks reports that 4000 Darfuri women at Iridimi Refugee Camp in Chad have qualified for and received Carbon Credits from the UN Gold Standard Foundation. More information...
• Video: Inclined trough line concentrating solar steam generator for which Ajay Chandak is seeking a US partner (Contact...)
• EVENT: 5-8 August 2018 (Boulder, Colorado, USA): SOLAR 2018: Pathways to the Renewable Energy Transformation
• Puerto Rico news: - A solar cooker request has resulted in parabolic cooker training coordinated by several organizations. Solar ovens are also provided to other hard hit rural areas.
• Solar cooker/dryer design: Muhammed Yasin Khan offers his version of a solar box oven with a solar dryer attachment.
• Individual promoter: Marie-Line Dupuy
• EVENT: 19-21 June 2018 (Valencia, Spain): IX Congreso Ibérico VII Congreso Iberoamericano de las Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío
• EVENT: 20-22 June 2018 (Madrid, Spain): XVI Congreso Ibérico y XII Congreso Iberoamericano de Energía Solar
• EVENT: 19 August 2018 (Sorède, France): Journée "Cuisons Solaire" - 2ème Edition
• EVENT: 17-19 October 2018 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain): 2nd International Conference on Solar Technologies and Hybrid Mini-Grids
• Charcoal production news: Champion of the Earth Fatima Jibrell attends high-level talks on Somalia’s illegal charcoal trade - UNDP
• Zambia news: Pasteurizng water in Lusaka with the Heliac solar cooker to help curtail the spread of cholera
• Construction plans: Video-assisted construction plans for the Lazola 3 solar box cooker (English, German)
• Parabolic cooker news: Spanish documentation on the SK1.4 parabolic solar cooker
• Zimbabwe news: Low Awareness Restrains Growth of Solar Technologies - Inter Press Service
• EVENT: 25-26 May, 2018 (Wietow, Germany): SolarZentrum sustainable solar cooking and farming conference at the Solar Center MV
• Mexico news: Desarrollo, implementación y apropiación de cocinas solares para el medio rural de Michoacán - M. González-Avilés, Bernardo López-Sosa, et al
• Testing research: Evaluation framework for small-dimension solar cookers - Bernardo López-Sosa

• Photovoltaic cooking news: Photovoltaic cooking makes sense - IDTechEx
• NGO page: Public Private Alliance Foundation
• Mexico news: Bernardo López Sosa, tecnologías para las comunidades indígenas - (English version)
• Photovoltaic cooking news: IIT-B sends cooking for a SIX - The Asian Age
• Classroom resources: Solar Cooking Education in the Classroom: Activities and Experiments Lesson Plans - Global Development Solutions
• Classroom resource: Solar Cookers - Effective Tools for 3-D Learning - Mary Buchenic
• India news: Oil minister Pradhan attends ONGC Solar Chulha Challenge - The Econimic Times
• Photovoltaic solar cooking news: IIMK LIVE hosts Live Demo of Solar Cooking Innovation - India EducationDiary.com
• Haiti news: John Buchenic created Global Development Solutions to support international nonprofit agencies. - The Vindicator
• Rocket Stove video: El Procedimiento de la Construcción de una Cocina Rocket
• USA news: Hubbard, Ohio lawyer runs nonprofit to maximize US aid to poor nations - The Vindicator
• India news: The Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development has its first solar food fest to celebrate Sustainable Development Week - The Times of India
• USA news: Harnessing the Sun with a Solar Oven to Make Blue Hopi Cornbread - Mother Earth News
• EVENT: 18 April 2018, Wednesday (Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA): EcoPalooza - Earth Day celebration at Southwest Missouri State University
• Zambia news: Cooking Without Charcoal - Zambia Daily Mail
• India news: Task force meet held for mass solar cooking options - Central Chronicle
• Mali news: Togo Tilé's new workshop and ICS-shop in Segou is now ready and will be officially opened this month. There are 80 employees, all young and mostly women selling products in 17 locations throughout Mali.
• Solar drying news: AIWC promotes solar-dried veggies and fruits - The Hans India
• Solar drying news: Now, healthy and storable ‘solar dried food’ - The New Indian Express
• Costa Rica news: Video of Dr. Nandwani showing his various solar cookers explaining how they work
• Solar wall oven news: Frugal, yet high tech, innovations that can change your lives - The Hindu BusinessLine
• Tanzania news: Results from SCI project shows that 60 families were able to reduce their use of cooking fuel by 25% through the use of the Integrated Cooking Method
• EVENT: 27-29 June 2018 (Lausanne, Switzerland): Tech4Dev 2018 - Voices of the Global South at the SwissTech Convention Center. Alternative technology approaches, including sustainable solar energy, will be presented.
• EVENT: 28 April 2018, Saturday (Tucson, Arizona, USA): Solar Cooking Potluck - Citizens for Solar will host the 36th Annual Solar Potluck at Catalina State Park. Activities will begin at 10 a.m.
• SCI news: Employment opportunities at Solar Cookers International
• EVENT: 14 April 2018, Saturday (Mesa, Arizona, USA): Celebrate Mesa at Pioneer Park with solar cooking and other sustainable activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Manufacturer news: Solar Energy Cooking Challenge with GoSun's Patrick Sherwin -Cision PRWeb
• Dominican Republic news: Solar Oven Partners UMC introduce solar cooking in Monte Cristi
• Nigeria news: Abuja Junior School Invents Solar Cooker - PM News

• Solar Wall Oven design: Variation to the Paul Funk and Barbara Kerr design
• India news: Meet Janak Palta: Woman Who Conceptualised Sustainable Living & Empowered Women - The Logical Indian
• Refugee camp news: Solarkocher für Flüchtlinge in Uganda - PNP (English version)
• Vietnam news: Solar Serve News #54
• Design award: Dr. Ajay Chandak of Promoters, Researchers and Innovators in New and Clean Energy receives Gold Prize at WINTREX in Indonesia
• SUNplicity video: Le nouveau four solaire pliable de SUNplicity modèle 2018
• USA news: Middle school students compete in solar oven challenge
• Wiki article: Haines 2.0 Solar Cooker
• India news: Need low-risk, concessional finance, Narendra Modi says in 10-point action plan - DNA
• Pakistan news: National Environment Mela Held At Ayub National Park - UrduPoint
• India news: ‘Empowering’ men in solar cooking - BusinessLine
• EVENT: 17-18 March 2018 (Graysdale, Illinois, USA): Survival & Green Living Expo - More information...
• EVENT: 18 March 2018 Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Tucson, Arizona, USA): 4th Annual Free STEM Festival - Citizens for Solar will be demonstrating solar cooking. More information...
• India news: Idlis Powered by The Sun? This Kerala Firm’s Awesome Innovation Makes Them! - The Better India
• Kenya news: For clean drinking water in Kenya, just add sunshine (and a can) - Reuters
• EVENT: Sustainable cooking program: 14 March 2018, Wednesday (New York City, USA): The Public-Private Alliance Foundation will present a program of panelists representing organizations working to advance solar and biogas cookstoves and fuel, to improve health and daily life in families, create small business opportunities for women and girls, and fight against environmental degradation. From 6:15-8:30pm, and seating is limited. - RSVP by March 9
• SCI & GACC Webinar: 31 May 2018, 11am EST: - Solar Cookers International and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves will present; The Clean, Sustainable Cooking Solution - Solar Thermal (Preregistration required)
• Heat storage news: Solar powered pizza oven with internal heat storage
• Kenya fireless cooker news: Ongoing fireless cooker workshops are held at the Armstrong Women Empowerment Centre in Rabuor under the direction of Faustine Odaba
• EVENT: 21-23 June 2018: (Kampala, Uganda) - AfriShiners workshop - The 2nd international workshop on clean cooking and food processing
• Fresnel lens news: SunPod-Interview: Sedi Byskov – Polymer Fresnel Lenses (German intro, English interview)

• Kenya news: Scheffler Community Kitchen installed by Altener Solar
• Policy Guide: Communicating Decentralised Renewable Energy to Financiers and Senior Policymakers: A Guide for Campaigners and Non-Governmental Organisations - Climate Outreach
• Solar cooking program analysis: What’s cooking? Unverified assumptions, overlooking of local needs and pro-solution biases in the solar cooking literature - L. Iessaa, et al
• Refugee camp energy use: Prices, Products and Priorities Meeting Refugees’ Energy Needs in Burkina Faso and Kenya - Practical Action
• Hybrid solar electric cooker: UGLI Hybrid Solar Electric Oven
• Solar cooking book: A Treatise SOLAR COOKERS, by Ashok Kundapur
• Guinea news: Update from Association Des Volontaires Guineens Pour l' Environnement on their work in Guinea
• Lebanon report: Review on solar cooker systems: Economic and environmental study for different Lebanese scenarios - Amal Herez, et al
• EVENT: 6 March 2018, Tuesday (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA): Sci Tech Day with Solar Sisters - Mary Buchenic of Solar Sisters, will discuss the potential global impact of solar cooking and what you can do to help. For school field trips only
• EVENT: 22-24 February 2018: (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA): Celebrate National Engineers Week at Carnegie Science Center with 'Engineer the Future'. Mary Buchenic will be demonstrating solar cookers to encourage future engineers
• Testing news: Performance Evaluation Process featured in Public Private Alliance Foundation newsletter
• EVENT: 9-11 March 2018: (Phamong, Lesotho): The Bethel Business and Community Development Centre is sponsoring a gathering for individuals interested in permaculture approaches to water, food, energy, technology, construction, and landscape development
• EVENT: 10-13 September 2018: (Rapperswil, Switzerland): EuroSun 2018, the 12th International Conference on Solar Energy for Building be held on the campus of the HSR University of Applied Science Rapperswil on Lake Zürich
• Employment opportunity: Solar Cookers International has a job opening for a Program Associate, Special Project Manager, and Administration Associate
• Polish wikis: Koncept Gotowania i Suszenia Solarnego and Koncept Kolektorów Solarnych
• Lesotho news: Solar cooker donations help Lesotho grannies
• Switzerland restaurant: Solar cooking at the Lo'13'to restaurant in Geneva, Switzerland
• EVENT: 2-4 August 2018: (Näsåker, Sweden) - Solar chef, Sara Hjalmarsson, will be demonstrating solar cooking technology at the Skåne Food Festival held in southern Sweden
• EVENT: 8-10 June 2018: (Brösarp, Sweden) - The Urkult festival held in northern Sweden attracts environmentally conscious families from around the world. Solar chef, Sara Hjalmarsson, will be demonstrating sustainable solar cooking
• Conference presentation: Photovoltaic Solar Cooking with Thermal Energy Storage - Antonio Lecuona-Neumann, et al
• Manufacturer news:: SolSource Solar Cooker on ‘Shark Tank’ Offers Cheaper, Lighter $239 Model - Business Spotlight
• Video: Stefan Karnebäck describing how the Heliac solar cooker should be used and the requirements for making it perform optimally
• Portuguese TV: News report on recent CONSOLFOOD 2018 conference
• USA broadcast: One Earth Designs' Catlin Powers will pitch their SolSource parabolic solar cooker on the television show Shark Tank on Sunday, 11 February at 2200 EST.
• Sudan news: Solar box cooker promotion model in Alkiryab village
• Food processing news: ISES Webinar: Solar Food Processing for Income Generation
• EVENT: 9-10 April 2018: (Sacramento, California, USA) - Annual Green California Summit with Expo and educational resources
• EVENT: 13-14 April 2018: (Nantes, France) Stage « Construction de cuiseur solaire », sur deux jours. Vous fabriquerez votre propre cuiseur solaire de A à Z. Tarif : 130 euros (+ adhésion). Télécharger le programme et la fiche d’inscription.
• Manufacturer news: Updated website - All Season Solar Cooker
• CONSOLFOOD 2018: The plaza is filled with solar cookers used at the conference
• Australia resource: Solar Cooking in Australia (Facebook group)
• Mali news: Continued success for solar cooking business in Mali

• Kenya news: The Tonembee Association reports that it distributed 150 solar cookers in Kithuia Village, Kenya in April, 2017 and held three educational events in the area between February and June, 2017.
• Uganda news: Profitable solar cooker business thrives in Mbarara, Uganda
• NGO news: Solar Household Energy: 2017 Annual Report
• SCI news: Submit solar cooking use data for 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report, by 2 February 2018 deadline
• India news: Thuruthikkara is first green village in Kerala
• Haiti news: Haiti Adolescent Girls Network (HAGN) launches solar cooking micro-enterprise program for 16 teen girls - Solavore
• NGO page: Solar Cooking Campaign for Grassroots
• South Africa news: A short film showing local production of Elnatan Calitzdorp Solar Cookers for everyday use
• Solar cooking history: Charles Greeley Abbot's solar cooker from 1940 - National Museum of American History
• Improved combustion stove news: Baba Moto stove from Bernhard Müller - (English version)
• Nepal news: The Foundation for Sustainable Technologies(FoST) demonstrates green technologies in Kathmandu
• Construction plans: Video-assisted construction plans for the Lazola 3 solar box cooker
• India news: Community solar cookers can save fuel, says expert - The Tribune
• India news: PAU professor attends international conference to support solar thermal - The Tribune
• SCI news: Deadline January 15 to vote for SCI, now a finalist in the MIT Climate CoLab "Energy Supply" contest
• Through-the-wall oven design: SunPortal