Solar Cooking News - Archive
Dispatches from around the globe and related articles of
interest to the solar cooking community, posted to the web site prior to 2006 
SHE Backgrounder
Description of Solar Household Energy's HotPot solar oven as a solution to global challenges.
FY 2006 Annual Report
Literature Review of Alternate and Renewable Energies in Developing Countries
by Karyn Ellis
A thesis which provides a feasible rationale as to why different types of alternative solar energy projects would or wouldn't be successful in a rural village in Africa, and to justify these findings in terms of sustainability and cultural awareness. Sol Food
Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 25, 2005
Eleanor Shimeall of Borrego Springs, California has been an avid solar cook for 25 years. Evaluation of a Solar Oven Promotion Program in Ethiopia, 1997-2001
Report on Solar Cookers International's refugee project with solar ovens in the Aisha camp, Ethiopia. FSEC Helps Develop More Efficient and Durable Solar Cooker
The Energy Chronicle, A Newsletter of the Florida Solar Energy Center, July 2005 Workshop for Fresh Solar Cooking Technology
by Sean Blaschke, The Independent (Banjul), April 18, 2005 Solar Cooking Spreads to Central America
by Camille McCarthy, Solar Household Energy, Inc., May 2005 Mexican Straw Weavers in Mixteca Region of Oaxaca Learn to Solar Cook
by Louise Meyer, Solar Household Energy, Inc., Weave A Real Peace Newsletter, Summer 2005 Solar Cooking: Rays of Transformation
by Darwin O’Ryan Curtis Solar Household Energy, Inc. and Louise Meyer Solar Household Energy, Inc., Americas, April 2005 Solar Cooking Training in Mali
by Christine Danton, Solar Household Energy, Inc.
Christine Danton traveled to Mali to conduct a HotPot solar cooking training with Peace Corps volunteers, staff, government, and NGO representatives. Evaluation Report: Solar Oven Exposition, Kaedi, Mauritania
by Rachel Bingham, August 2004 Opportunity Ripe for Solar Cooking in Mali
by Christine Danton, Solar Household Energy, Inc., August 2004 The HotPot in Mexico
by Louise Meyer, Solar Household Energy, Inc., DAAD Letter, Sping 2004
From Germanistik to solar cooking – the improbable journey of a DAAD scholar. How Are Solar Ovens Improving the Lives of Women and the Environment?
by Janice Duddy, Association for Women's Rights in Development, April 2004 Wood Fuel Scarcity in the Sahel and the Potential of Solar Cookers
by Dr. Paul Krämer, MD tropical medicine, Solar Energy for Afrika conference, Düsseldorf, 2003 Humphrey Program: Researching Alternative Energy Sources
MACECE Newsletter, Summer-Fall 2003
Humphrey fellow works to introduce solar cooking in Morocco. Sunshine Cooking
by S. Narayanaswamy, Solar Power Newsletter (www.gosolarpower.com)
A testimonial of solar cooking in India. Report on Peace Corps Initiated Solar Oven Project in Lesotho, Southern Africa
by Mary Simonson, Nov. 2003 Solar Energy Used to Fight Poverty and Deforestation in Paraguay
by Martin Almada, Craft News, Winter 2001 Solar Energy: Powering Craft and Communities
by Louise Meyer, Crafts News, Fall 2002
How alternative energy could benefit artisans Cooking with Sunlight
by Jennifer Andes, Natural Home Magazine, May/June 2003
Solar cookers offer crock-pot convenience and an alternative to preparing food with fossil fuels. Rescuing the Sierra Gorda While Promoting Community and Human Development
Ashoka (changemakers.net)
Pati Ruiz and the Sierra Gorda Ecology Group work to preserve and improve the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve by involving the poor of he community in environmental education, sustainable enterprises and training for self-sufficiency Cooking with the sun: Chilean village’s experiment with solar ovens offers alternative to widespread deforestation
by Casey Woods, San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2001
Initially skeptically received, solar oven usage in this Chilean village has expanded to include the opening of the world's first solar restaurant Villagers in Sri Lanka Learn to Solar Cook
Solar Cooker Review, November 2001
Solar Cookers International assists EMACE in training enthusiastic villagers to use and build solar cookers Afghanistan's Forests : Bare Mountains, Poor People
The Economist, Nov 1st 2001
In Afghanistan, deforestation causes a number of environmental disasters as the population faces ever diminishing sources of cooking and heating fuel. Reflections Of a Solar Cook
by Nicole M. Miller, Washington Post Staff Writer, Washington Post 'FOOD' Section, Page F01, August 29, 2001
Louise Meyer, a native Washingtonian, shares her evolution, passion and experiences with solar cooking and her interest in spreading to the impoverished of the world Langley’s SSE Data May Help Power Afghanistan
by Julia Cole, SAIC The First Solar Community Kitchen
by Louise Meyer, Swiss Review, No.2, 2001 University Graduates Discover Solar Cooking Benefits
by Louise Meyer, Solar Cooker Review, December 2000 A Solar Oven Made in Bolivia
La Paz newspaper, September 2001 Solar cooking catches fire in Mexican nature reserve
by Louise Meyer Deforestation, wood cooking practices tightly linked, analysis of data suggests
by Dr. Barbara Knudson Turkey Project off to Good Start
by Dr. Barbara Knudson, "Solar Cooker Review" Vol. 7, Number 2, November 2001 CooKit Use and Marketing Taught in Burkina Faso
by Wietske A. Jongbloed, KOZON (A Dutch NGO), SCI Review, December 2000 Solar cooking provides antidote to wood fuel ‘famine’
by Dr. Barbara Knudson How To Really Help Women of Afghanistan
by Dr. Barbara Knudson, November 2001 Summary of wood consumption study in Kakuma
by B. Knudson and W. Lankford, August 1998 Gendered Sights and Health Issues in the Paradigm of Biofuel in Sri Lanka
by Anoja Wickramasinghe, ENERGIA News vol. 4 nr 4, pp.12-14, December 2001 Federal German Minister for Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul emphasizes the importance of training in the promotion of solar cooking.
by Ulrike Roehr, ENERGIA News vol. 5 nr 4, p.9, December 2002 Solar Dryer Systems and the Internet: important resources to improve food preparation
by David E. Whitfield, November 2000 Paul Munsen of Sun Ovens International receives US Commerce Department's Export Achievement Certificate
KOZON (Dutch NGO) report on CooKit construction with AFIMA (Association of Women Engineers of Mali)
Solar Power Cooks Medical Waste
Cookers powered by the sun could be a cheap method for developing countries to dispose of hazardous medical waste. Baking in the Sun
 Mexico: Promoting solar cooking in Sierra Gorda (video)
Reactions of a UN representative about solar cooking (video) Solar Household Energy, Inc. Newsletters News from SHE: Solar cooking films presented at Environmental Film Festival, WWF Nepal conducts trainings with HotPot, new SHE board member, and other updates...,
Spring 2009 News from SHE: Solar cooks trained in Peru, 2000 HotPot project in Senegal and other updates...,
Fall Quarterly Newsletter 2008 SHE, Inc. celebrates it's 10th anniversary!,
Fall 2008 News from SHE: Programs in El Salvador and Senegal Expand, Solar Cooking Presented at Renewable Energy Conference and other updates,
Spring 2008 News from Solar Household Energy: Clip from Local TV Station, Green Festival, updates...,
Fall 2007 News from SHE: HotPot Demonstrated on Capitol Hill and other updates...,
Summer 2007 News from SHE: HotPot Featured in House & Garden, Pilot Project Updates,
Spring 2007 News from SHE: Senegal Embraces the HotPot, El Salvador Launch, Updates,
Winter 2006 News from SHE: 1,000 HotPots in Mali, field test results in, project updates,
Fall 2006 News from Solar Household Energy: Praise from World Bank; new projects, recipes,
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