USA

Last edited: 18 October 2019

In 2016, USA NGO Solar Cookers International and the International Solar Energy Society began the process of creating an open-source solar cooker testing program called the Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) under the direction of Dr. Alan Bigelow. The project involves establishing a uniform method of testing, and then providing information for interested parties to build their own testing station.

EventsEdit

ConnecticutEdit

• 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...

MinnesotaEdit

• 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...

WashingtonEdit

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

International conferencesEdit

• 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... 

See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in USA

NewsEdit

• June 2019: School of Engineering and Sciences developing solar cooking technology into their curriculum

• May 2019: 37th annual solar cooking demonstration held in Tucson, Arizona - Citizens for Solar held their annual solar cooking demonstration in Tucson, Arizona. Pictures from the event...

• December 2018:  GoSun, manufacturers of evacuated tube solar cookers, has formed an alliance with the American Red Cross to to co-brand solar cookers, and have them available for disaster relief situations. Read more from the GoSun press release.

• October 2018: Solar Cookers International held a solar oven demonstration at the San Diego Clean Energy Fair. The event also featured several clean energy-related workshops and presentations on topics including solar energy, energy storage, and electric and hybrid vehicles. Read more...

• May 2018: Dr. Ajay Chandak, Solar Cookers International Global Advisor, seeks a US partner for project development of inclined trough solar concentrator for a grant from the United States-India Science and Technology Endowment fund (IUSSTF): “Commercializing Technologies for Societal Impact." The pilot project can be seen in this video: Link to Pilot Project. Dr. Chandak is confident the cost of this concentrator will be at least 40% less than the corresponding cost of concentrators in the market. The fund aims to select and financially support promising joint US-India entrepreneurial initiatives. Grant size: up to INR 2.50 Crores (approx. $400,000 USD). To participate, contact Dr. Chandak well before the 15 June 2018 deadline: renewable.consultant@gmail.com

• April 2018: Solar cooking in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria - In February and March, MSA Renewtech Foundation (India) and the United Clergy Task Force (UCTF) (US) responded to requests from ten faith-based communities in rural Puerto Rico for community-sized solar cookers. With private funding, coordination by UCTF, training by Mr. Pranav Gadhia of MSA Renewtech, and bilingual technical instructions, curriculum, and survey tools from Solar Cookers International (SCI), ten faith congregations of more than 100 people each are being trained in the assembly and use of the PRINCE-40 parabolic dish solar cooker in rural Puerto Rico. In late April, Ms. Anne Patterson, an SCI Global Advisor, will deploy 25+ Solavore solar ovens from Punta Santiago to the Toro Negro rain forest and Morovis.  Most of these places are still largely without power and families spend a lot of money on fuel for generators. Monitoring and evaluation are incorporated into this project to track results. The evaluation tools used in these projects can be downloaded from http://www.solarcookers.org. Also available in Spanish from SCI.

• July 2017: Old school bus becomes a solar dryer - The resourceful staff and students at the remote Kua O Ka La Public Charter School in Pū‘ala‘a, Hawaii, have converted an old school bus into a solar food dehydrator. Off grid, a primary goal at the school is to be able to run everything with solar power. More information...

• June 2017: Solar Cookers International (SCI) launches pilot solar cooker testing centers in California and New York - The purpose of this pilot project is to check the repeatability, reliability, and reproducibility of results from SCI Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) testing stations for solar cookers, irrespective of location. SCI’s pilot testing centers are located at different latitudes and at different elevations. The two locations also experience different weather conditions. The solar cookers, the cookware, and the testing instrumentation, however, are the same at both locations. This pilot project is testing sets of three types of solar cookers: reflective-panel cookers, box ovens and parabolic reflectors. The PEP results provide cooking power measured in Watts, which is only one of many ways to evaluate solar cooker performance. In June, weather conditions at SCI’s pilot testing centers are well suited for testing solar cookers according to the ASABE S580.1 protocol for Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance. This protocol requires that outdoor ambient temperature must be between 20 - 35 °C (68 - 95 °F). This temperature range is generally available at both SCI pilot testing centers between the vernal (spring) equinox and the autumnal (fall) equinox. Testing days within the required temperature range should also be clear days with consistent solar energy. SCI welcomes others to join this pilot solar cooker testing project to validate the reproducibility of the SCI PEP testing stations. By using the same instrumentation, results have a consistent format for data comparison. Potential project partners can access the assembly manual for the SCI PEP testing station, available as open-source content online at SCI’s PEP web page. To join SCI's pilot solar cookers testing project, email info@solarcookers.org

• May 2017: Solar cooking project builds on STEAM - Middle school students in Springfield, Oregon, USA, were exposed to a multi-facetted lesson plan, with their challenge to design and build their own solar cooker. The lesson met the requirements for STEAM recognition. To qualify, a project typically integrates each of the core classes, including math, science, language arts, and social studies. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math. Read more...
• March 2017: Solar Cookers International is nominating a team of solar cooking experts for the UNHCR Energy Expert Roster to provide solar cooking consultancy to refugee camps.

• October 2016: José Andrés presented solar cooking technology at the South by South Lawn (SXSL) festival hosted at the White House

• September 2016: The PPG Foundation has provided financial support for a solar oven engineering/science project for second-grade students in Texico, Illinois.

• August 2016: Children learn about their solar future - At a weeklong day camp in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, young participants learned how solar energy will integrate into their coming lives. They learned to build solar lanterns, design a solar oven to bake a cake, and working in teams, design their own solar-powered devices. Read more...
• July 2016: Solar cooker manufacturer receives rational certification as a women's business enterprise - WBENC's national standard of certification is a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. The certification process is designed to confirm the business, in this case Solavore, is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by a woman or women. Read more...

• October 2015: University of Arizona students have "Solar Oven Throwdown" - UA faculty have designed a course that includes a solar cooker contest for students who are considering a career in engineering, be they freshmen at the UA or upperclassmen at certain local high schools. It is a chance to learn about how engineering works by working through design and construction of a device with a team. Read more... - Arizona Public Media

• July 2015: Tracking solar cooker headed to middle school - The Civano Middle School located in Tucson, Arizona, USA, will be receiving a tracking solar box cooker for fall semester. Students will be able to learn firsthand about solar cooking. The cooker and tracking system has been designed by C. Alan Nichols, an engineer from the Tucson area. Read more about the system at The Tracking Solar Cooker.

• June 2015: Solar cooking meets the tech community - Chef José Andrés invited Kirk Smith, a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, at UC Berkeley, USA, to join him at a panel discussion for environmentalists challenging the tech community held in Silicon Valley, California. Dr. Kirk has discounted solar cooking in the past, but now feels it is a viable part of the clean cooking solution to help preserve the environment and improve the health of the many cooks cooking over open fires. Dr. Smith and Andrés called on the audience to go back to their employers – the technology companies of the Bay Area – and apply as much innovative thinking to clean cooking as has been applied to electric cars and evolving the jet engine. Delicious solar-cooked mushroom tacos were prepared on the grounds outside of the conference. More information
• January 2015: Irene Perbal has explained how she used her experience promoting solar cooking in Sudan and Brazil to help out back in her home state of California, USA. She has been encouraging the use of solar cooking at local food banks. She began doing talks and seminars to train locals on how to build and use the cookers, including the underserved frequenting the food banks. Often her presentation includes sharing a lunch of solar cooked lasagne. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally - Huffington Post

• December 2014: In an article for National Geographic, Chef José Andrés writes about his pop-up restaurant, Sunny Day, which he opened at the Life is Beautiful event in Las Vegas, NV. Sunny Day used solar cookers to cook their signature dish, vegetarian tacos, during the day and clean-burning ethanol in the evening. Read article...

• November 2014: As part of the "What I'm Thankful For" series, José Andrés explains that he is thankful that his family has a simple and safe method to cook their food, and how solar cooking and other fuel-efficient cooking methods are bringing this benefit to the world's poor, for whom access to traditional cooking fuels is becoming more difficult and expensive every year. Read more...

• October 2014: At the Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, NV, José Andrés debuted Sunny Day, his new solar-powered pop-up restaurant. His goal for the new pop-up restaurant is to educate Americans about clean cooking around the world. Interview with José Andrés

• September 2014: Hawaii company awards solar energy grants - Hawaii Pacific Solar (HPS), a Maui-based solar PV design and installation company, has awarded two education grants totaling USD 2,718 for solar energy-related projects at Hokulani Elementary School and King William C. Lunalilo Elementary School, both Kaimuki Complex schools. A USD 500 grant was awarded to Aiea Elementary School to build a solar oven out of recycled products using renewable energy.

• September 2014: Raquel Redshirt presented her solar cooker design at the TEDxABQ 2014 conference in Albuquerque, NM, on 6 September 2014. She stated that her solar cooker was a more health-conscious option in her community, which has a high rate of diabetes. To watch her talk, click on Watch tab, then search on Raquel Redshirt.

• September 2014: Leonel Gotlibowski and The Sun Juicer completed a successful Kickstarter campaign! They set a goal of USD 15,000 and raised a total of USD 19,152. They describe the Sun Juicer as an emergency ultralight, compact parabolic solar cooker. Read more...

• August 2014: A group of volunteers known as the Haiti Solar Oven Partners from First United Methodist Church of Jamestown, North Dakota, recently traveled to Moffit, ND, to help fabricate solar ovens to be used in Haiti. Teams of volunteers travel to Haiti each year to live in communities that have invited them. For ten days, these volunteers work with Haitians to build ovens and educate people about solar cooking. Their goal is to deliver 2,300 solar ovens plus hands-on training to Haitian families every year. Read more...

• July 2014: Solar cooking conference extols virtues of cookers to developing world (Sacramento Bee) - Hundreds of people Saturday cooked using only the power of the sun – a practice little used in the United States, but considered a liberating tool for women in developing countries that also helps curb greenhouse gas emissions. Read more...

• July 2014: Results of the US Solar Cooking Survey were presented by Natalia Blackburn at the American Solar Energy Society's SOLAR 2014 conference in San Francisco. During the afternoon of the paper's presentation, solar cooker volunteers Judy, Rene, and two local elementary school students brought in panel cookers, a box cooker, and an evacuated tube cooker for display. They talked about their solar cooking projects and answered questions. Judy had baked up scones in the San Francisco morning sun so that the mostly photovoltaic-oriented crowd could taste what solar cooking was all about.

• April 2014: Three cheers for the Girl Scouts - Girl Scouts in Texas can now earn a solar energy patch

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HistoryEdit

Some of the many solar cooking non-governmental organizations based in the US are Solar Cookers International (SCI), Rotary International, the Solar Oven Society, and Solar Household Energy, Inc.

No precise numbers are available, but estimates suggest that perhaps as many as 10,000 Americans use solar cookers regularly. The electrical utility of the Sacramento, CA area, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), has been a strong supporter of solar energy usage. SMUD serves an area of more than a million people. Under earlier leadership, it pioneered the development of cleaner electricity generation, including building the first solar-powered generating station in the United States. It has offered rebates for replacing old appliances with energy-efficient equipment, and it cooperated in planting trees to lower the cost of air conditioning to consumers, as examples. For purposes of this report, it is important to note the strong support of SMUD for solar cooking education, including outreach to schools and community organizations. They have placed solar cookers with Scout troops, offered workshops in 65 schools of the area, and made available plans to build cookers to customers throughout their service area. In 1991, SMUD even produced a solar cooking cookbook. Reducing the use of electricity is in everyone's interest; this interesting example of a public utility's contribution to solar cooking as one contribution to solving the problem was noteworthy.

The late George Lof, a former director of the Industrial Research Institute at the University of Denver, Colorado, was an early pioneer of solar-powered technology, including solar cooking. In the fifties, he experimented with a parabolic solar cooker design that he dubbed the "Umbroiler" because of its umbrella-like structure. He marketed the design, but it was a commercial failure for the times.

Considerable activity can also be found in the state of Arizona, probably the sunniest of the U.S. fifty states. The most important solar cooking fact about Arizona is that the late Barbara Kerr, the foremost expert on solar cooking in the U.S., lived in a small community in this state. She created and lived in the Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center, which demonstrates a wide range of ways to live lightly, rather than destructively, on the earth. Barbara is the author of several books (The full text of one is here) and articles on solar cooking, the creator and marketer (with her colleague, Sherry Cole) of a cardboard box cooker, the refiner of the CooKit as the first inexpensive but efficient solar cooker, and a never-ending source of information to those who seek her knowledge on the internet. A visit to Taylor, Arizona, is a trip to an important piece of solar cooking history.

Solar devices are also manufactured in this area. Early pioneers, the late Bob Larson and his wife Heather Larson, produced cookbooks and plans for solar dryers until their untimely deaths. Jay Campbell, a New Mexican engineer, has invented a range of cooking devices that won prizes for ingenuity and efficiency, though he is not a manufacturer but rather an idea person. One firm, Zone Works, makes and sells parabolics out of Albuquerque, NM.

Unlikely as it may sound, the state of Minnesota has also made contributions to the development of solar cooking. Mike and Martha Port, founders of the Solar Oven Society, have worked in a variety of Central American and Caribbean nations on various projects. Recently, they completed research and development of a new cooker, manufactured from recycled soda bottles; the device will help to fill the gap between the very inexpensive (but not so long lasting) CooKit and the more expensive box or parabolic cookers. With the assistance of a small business development grant from the State of Minnesota, charitable contributions from a range of churches and organizations, and the dedicated volunteer labor of the Ports over many years, they have recently been able to begin the sale and marketing, both in the U.S. and abroad, of the Sport. A collectivity of Minnesota churches made possible the shipment of 400 unassembled cookers to Afghanistan for sale at a subsidized price to people whose need for cooking energy is great.

The Nevada Solar Cookers Association was formed to share recipes, ideas, and stories and to spread the news about solar cooking in their area. Solar Cooker Review, March 2003.

The Sacramento, California NGO Solar Cookers International, the sponsor of this Wiki, has worked since 1989 to promote solar cooking around the world.

Main article: History of solar cooking

Archived articles

20K Watts AMANECER Alan Gallagher Alfalit International, Inc. Alice & Heinz Hoenecke Arizona Solar Cookers BASIC Initiative Mexico Program Barbara Kerr Barbara Knudson Barby Pulliam Berta Nelson Bob Larson Brookings Rotary Club Carbon Manna Carl Peters Clark and Eleanor Shimeall Colin Hoskins Compassion Care Foundation Doug Augustine ETHOS Earthapprentice Edye Kuyper EnCorps International Engineers For a Sustainable World Solar Ovens Team Friends of Haiti Organization George Lof Give A Helping Hand Global Resource Alliance Global Roots Gordon Bauer Gordon Magney HELPS International Hawaii Solar Ovens Ishani Sud Jack Garvey, Jr. Jewish World Watch Jim Scott John Futhey Li-Yan Zhu Lift Up Africa Light Gives Heat Manda Manisha Javeri Max Ozimek Medina Baye Islamic Ecology and Environmental Learning Center Methodist Church Conference of Minneapolis

Miami Country Day School Mária Telkes Nancy Crooks Nevada Solar Cookers Association Our 1 World Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Project C.O.P.E. Project Have Hope Project Surya Reyel and Michaela Daystar Richard Wareham Rita Riewerts Ron Mutebi Rotary Club of Naperville Rotary District 6450 Sales for Social Impact - University of Houston Salud del Sol Samaritan's Purse Seattle Solar Cooking Sherry Cole Solar Cooker Project Team at Cornell University Solar Cooker at Cantina West Solar Energy International Solar Punch Solarcookingnut Solavore Sophie Brock Spirit in Action Stellaris Ministries Steven Jones Steven Watson Sun Catchers Project Sun Fire Cooking Suzanne Kercher Terri Brooks Texas Solar Cookers The NOMAD Foundation The Nature Conservancy True Vineyard Ministries Ugandan American Global Initiatives United Religions Initiative University of New Mexico - Gallup Campus Walt and Diane Parrish Wendell and Sammie Rickon Wilfred Pimentel World Concern

Climate and cultureEdit

• Wikipedia article on the climate of USA
• Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables

ResourcesEdit

Possible fundersEdit

• Find a Kiva microfinance partner in USA.
• Raising funds through grants and donations
• ACCION USA
• Opportunity Fund

See Raising funds through grants and donations.Raising funds through grants and donations

Project evaluationsEdit

• August 2006: Nogales, US-Mexico Clean Air Report Excerpts August 2006 - Report for the Thermal Construction and Alternative Heating and Cooking Technologies Project that outlines research conducted to assess the air quality along the US-Mexico border. Solar Household Energy collaborated with the research team to introduce solar cookers into the cities being studied.

ReportsEdit

• July 2014: Characteristics of Solar Cooking Households in the United States - Natalia Blackburn

Discussion groupsEdit

• Minnesota Solar Cookers group
• Promote Solar Cooking in your Community

Articles in the mediaEdit

• NEW: January 2020: Pasadena school tests its solar ovens
• October 2019: Engineering students crank up the heat at 'Solar Oven Throw Down' - KUGN 9 News
• September 2019: Alan Bigelow’s Solar-Cooking Revolution - The New Yorker
• July 2019: Is it hot enough to fry an egg outside? We got cracking to find out - The Washington Post
• April 2019: Allen changes focus to solar energy - Bingham County Chronicle
• April 2018: Hubbard, Ohio lawyer runs nonprofit to maximize US aid to poor nations - The Vindicator
• April 2018: Harnessing the Sun with a Solar Oven to Make Blue Hopi Cornbread - Mother Earth News
• April 2018: Solar Energy Cooking Challenge with Go Sun's Patrick Sherwin -Cision PRWeb
• March 2018: Middle school students compete in solar oven challenge
• December 2017: The Sun Shines in Denver - Green Fire Times
• December 2017: Arkansas Sixth-Graders Design Ovens for Uganda Community - USNews
• July 2017: Summer-long solar cooking study - Arizona State University
• June 2017: Baked to take first place in Science Fair
• February 2017: Workshop on solar power at i3 Academy yields lessons about benefits of alternative energy - Palm Coast Observer
• August 2016: Just-B-Solar Camp introduces youth to their future - MSR Online
• August 2016: Bolivians' kitchens become a passion for San Clemente teen - The Orange County Register
• July 2016: Local retired professor looks to improve solar cooking - 22News - WWLP.com
• April 2016: Baking a carrot cake on a boat led to buying a company - Star Tribune
• April 2016: Back to the future: A solar oven project (food waste recycling) - The Tiger
• April 2016: Churchville-Chili solar cooker team wins ASU Tech Challenge - Gates-Chili Post
• April 2016:  These Clark entrepreneurs have some big ideas (Sun Top Solar Cookers)- Clark University
• December 2015: Solar Cooking Goes Mainstream - EcoWatch
• October 2015: UA Students Make Tasty Treats in 'Solar Oven Throwdown' - Arizona Public Media
• September 2015: Why not sun-roasted chilies for Presidio, Texas? - Big Bend Now
• August 2015: Only the sun, Local green builder gets community cooking with solar power - Chico News & Review
• July 2015: Solar cookers sizzle in Sacramento heat - The Sacramento Bee
• July 2015: Solar academy under way at Cal Maritime - Times-Herald NEWS
• July 2015: Everyday Solar Cooking - Mother Earth News
• June 2015: Bloomfield fifth-graders create solar ovens - NorthJersey.com
• May 2015: Glenpool students celebrate end of school with solar cook-off - Glenpool World.com
• May 2015: Friendship students win award for oven design - Olean Times Herald
• March 2015: Solar Cooking in the Snow with a Sunny Apple-Cobbler Recipe - Mother Earth News
• February 2015: Cedar Rapids engineering major develops solar stoves in India - Iowa Now
• January 2105: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally - Huffington Post
• October 2014: Using Solar Thermal Technology to Brew Beer in Colorado - Solar Thermal Magazine
• August 2014: First United Methodist Church volunteers help with solar oven - The Jamestown Sun
• July 2014: Solar ovens may stimulate student appetite for STEM - University of Arkansas
• July 2014: Ask James Dulley: Solar ovens are simple to make, easy to use - Rapid City Journal
• July 2014: Solar cooking conference extols virtues of cookers to developing world - Sacramento Bee
• June 2014: Young chefs harness solar power - Daily Press
• June 2014: Solar Cooking: The No-Fuel, No-Emissions Way to Make Dinner - Edible Manhattan
• May 2014: Solar ovens yield sunny side-up s’mores at WMS - Woodbury Bulletin
• May 2014: Solar Cooking in Third World Countries - Digital Journal
• January 2014: SUNY students build solar CooKits - Observer, Dunkirk NY

Audio and videoEdit

• July 2014: Video presentations from the SCInet Solar Cooking Convention 2014

• July 2014: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, USA, Solar Cooker Research

• July 2014: Dr. Bing Gu, CEO California Sunlight develops his Fresnel lens solar cooker

• January 2011:

• July 2010:

• July 2009:

Solar cooking blogsEdit

• Colorado Bob's Solar Oven
• Utah Sun Ovens
• Root Simple - Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne chronicle their adventures as urban gardeners, farmers, and solar cookers.
• Little Homestead in the City - An American family in Pasadena living simply since 1985
• Solar Cooker at Cantina West
• Chef Tess Bakeresse
• Chile Chews Up the Road
• Sun Oven
• SunshineCooking
• ARNies-SolarCooking, last entry in 2009, still contains good advice
• Solar Moxie, Karyn Ellis' blog
• Sun Sky Soil
• My Sun Oven
• Solar Cooking for Mainstream Cooks
• Adventure in Solar Cooking

Solar cooking clubsEdit

Citizens for Solar

Sustainable NE Seattle

ContactsEdit

The entities listed below are either based in USA, or have established solar cooking projects there:

SCI AssociatesEdit

Alan Bigelow Allart Ligtenberg American Solar Energy Society Arline J. Lederman, PhD. Caitlyn Hughes David Chalker Earthbound Technology Ed Pejack GoSun Haines Solar Cookers Jackie Harsha Julie Greene Lorraine Anderson Mary Buchenic

Patrick Sherwin Paul Funk Paul Hedrick Public Private Alliance Foundation Rachel Andres Roger Haines Solar Cookers International Solar Oven Reflectors Sun BD Corporation Sun Buckets Susan Kinne Tom Hoffmann Tom Sponheim William Bradley

Main article: Solar Cookers International Association

NGOsEdit

Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development African Millennium Foundation American Solar Energy Society Appropedia Aprovecho Research Center B4Dignity Baja Arizona Border Partners Cal Poly Solar Cooking Central American Solar Energy Project Citizens for Solar Clean Cooking Alliance Climate Healers Developing World Solar Earthbound Technology Florida Solar Energy Center GEF Small Grants Programme Girl Scouts Heart of Central California Global Solar Education Project GoSol.org Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center NGO Sustainability, Inc. Nancy Ellen Crooks Foundation New Energy Works One Earth Designs Power From The Sun Project Gettysburg-León

Public Private Alliance Foundation Rotary Club of Fresno Rotary Club of Los Altos (California) S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation Shahjee Solar International SolTrekker Solar Circle Solar Clutch Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International Association Solar Cooking Plus Solar Household Energy Solar Liberty Foundation Solar Oven Partners UMC Solar Oven Society Solar Sisters Solar Smelters International Solar Solutions Sun24 Sun Ovens International Sunshine On My Shoulder Sustainable NE Seattle Trust in Education United States Agency for International Development United Village Transformation World Central Kitchen Zahana

Manufacturers and vendorsEdit

A Better Focus Co., Inc. All Season Solar Cooker Bjorn Qorn Blazing Tube Solar California Sunlight Corporation ClearDome Solar Thermal Dale Schuck Gaiam Real Goods Galen Schuck GoSun Gourmet Solar Ovens Haines Solar Cookers Jim La Joie Molly Baker Solar Oven Potavida Robert Nepper Roger Haines SUNFLAIR Safe Water Systems Shahjee Solar International Sharon Clausson

Solar Brother Solar Chef International Solar Circle Solar Clutch Solar Household Energy Solar Oven Reflectors Solar Oven Society Solar Oven Tracker Solar Roast Coffee Solar Solutions Solar Solutions Central Solar Zenith SunOK Sun BD Corporation Sun Buckets Sun Chef Cooker Sun Frost Sun Ovens International Tim Norton Trust in Education

IndividualsEdit

Afzal Syed Alan Bigelow Allart Ligtenberg Arline J. Lederman, PhD. Arlus Walters Arvind Chel Ashok Gadgil Bart Orlando Benjamin Brown Beth Ogilvie Bev Blum Bing Gu Bob Metcalf Budd Mackenzie Caitlyn Hughes Catlin Powers Chef Tess Bakeresse Christopher Nyerges Dale Andreatta Dale Schuck Daniel M. Kammen Dar Curtis David Chalker David Stein Ed Begley Jr. Ed Pejack Gabrielle Simbriger-Williams Galen Schuck Irene Perbal Jack Howell Jackie Harsha Jennifer Barker Jim La Joie Joel Goodman John Grandinetti John Roche John Root José Andrés Julie Greene Karyn Ellis Kevin Adair Les McEvers Linda Stein

Lisa Rayner Lorraine Anderson Louise Meyer Malcolm Gee Marianne Walpert Martin Nix Mary Buchenic Mary Carhartt Mary Frank Matt West Merry Bevill Michael Nicholas Mike Pool Mike and Martha Port Miriam Markus Zacuto Natalia Blackburn Nathan Parry Pat Browne Patricia McArdle Patrick Sherwin Paul Barth Paul Funk Paul Hedrick Paul Munsen Pete Schwartz Rachel Andres Raquel Redshirt Robert Nepper Roger Haines Sam Brown Sharon Clausson Sharon Cousins Sheela Kiiskila Stephen and Sheila Harrigan Susan Kinne Suzanne Kercher Suzette Bienvenue Tara Miller Tim Norton Tom Hallquist Tom Hoffmann Tom Sponheim William Bradley

Government agenciesEdit

Educational institutionsEdit

Cal Poly Solar Cooking

Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory

See alsoEdit

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ReferencesEdit