by Marie-Ange Binagwaho Daunting Global Challenges The need for alternatives to traditional household fuels such as wood and charcoal has become critical with rapid population growth and the unsustainable consumption of natural resources. Consider the following: According to… Read More

by Marie-Ange Binagwaho, Summer 2007 In our continuing efforts to disseminate solar cooking technology effectively and within the economic reach of communities, Solar Household Energy is experimenting with local production of the HotPot reflector in Senegal.  This summer… Read More

by Karyn Ellis, September 2007 ABSTRACT One of the biggest problems facing developing countries today is the deterioration of natural resources, as well as a lack of renewable ones. As natural resources continue to be consumed at an… Read More

by Heliodoro C. Cruz and Louise Meyer, Calidad Ambiental magazine (vol. XI, Nr. 1), Feb. 2006 Published by Centro de Calidad Ambiental (Department of Environmental Quality) Monterrey Technical University, Monterrey, Mexico.

by Melanie Szulczewski, Ph.D., October 2006 According to the World Bank, 94% of the African rural population and 73% of the urban population use fuelwood as their primary energy source. Unfortunately, supplies of fuelwood are diminishing throughout the… Read More

Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 25, 2005 Eleanor Shimeall, 82, has spent nearly a quarter of a century cooking in a cardboard box…and swears by it. While her husband Clark, 83, taught at the University of the Pacific… Read More

Background Aisha refugee camp is in northeastern Ethiopia near the Somali border. It was established in 1990 by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and is administered by ARRA, the Ethiopian agency for displaced persons. It has… Read More

The Energy Chronicle, A Newsletter of the Florida Solar Energy Center, July 2005 Most research centers like FSEC depend on contracts and external funding to conduct their programs, and the image of a scientist pursuing grants as aggressively… Read More

by Sean Blaschke, The Independent (Banjul), April 18, 2005 On April 6th 2005, Christine Danton, Program Director for Solar Household Energy (SHE), visited The Gambia for a one-week fact-finding and sensitisation mission. SHE is a US-based non-profit making… Read More

by Camille McCarthy, Solar Household Energy, Inc., May 2005 Undulating mountain ranges dotted with extinct volcanoes, lush, fertile, flat lowlands, and brilliant, blue Pacific waters that lap sparkling, white beaches all epitomize the beauty of Central America. However,… Read More