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- The August 2008 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
- Solar cooking webpage contest. Win up to $300.
- India's Temples Go Green - Time Magazine
- Solar Serve Vietnam's July 2008 newsletter is now online
- Google uses a solar cooking theme in its release of its Webmaster Tools API
- Radio Netherlands broadcasts a piece about Marie-Rose Neloum's work with Darfur refugees in Chad.
- Solar Cookers International was recently honored by the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution at California State University Sacramento for bringing the benefits of solar cooking and water pasteurization to more than 30,000 African families.
- Margaret Koshoni reports from Nigeria on her recent lecture/demonstration where the rented hall that seats 250 overflowed with more than 450 interested participants.
- New video: The Women of Iridimi shows how refugee women have built solar cookers for all 5000 families in the Iridimi Refugee Camp in Chad
- New newsletter: suNews from SCI's Nairobi office
- Solar Cookers International's Annual Report for 2007 is now online
- Alex Kee wins National Energy Globe Award for Malaysia
- Rays of hope for the Darfur refugees - The Guardian Weekly (UK)
- World Bank audio interview with Margaret Owino
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Tastes Solar Cooking: “Fabulous!”
- YouTube video of low-tech tracking device for solar cookers
- Newsletter added: Solar Serve News #18 (Vietnam Solar Serve)
- YouTube video: Louise Meyer and Patricia McArdle explain how solar cookers work
- Black carbon fast fix for climate change
- The March 2008 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
- The week of March 24th is South Africa Week on the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki. We are concentrating on adding deeper content about solar cooking in South Africa.
- Rachel Andres of Jewish World Watch receives $100,000 Charles Bronfman Award for Darfur solar cooking project - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- New audio: Battling Genocide One Cooker At a Time - KPCC FM
- Feature: Sunny side up - The Financial Times
- The week of March 3rd is Pakistan Week on the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki. We are concentrating on adding deeper content about solar cooking in Pakistan.
- The week of Feb. 25th is China Week on the Solar Cooking Archive Wiki. We are concentrating on adding deeper content about solar cooking in China.
- New document: Greenhouse Enclosure Comparison Tests
- Solar Cooking Archive Wiki in French is taking shape
- Here Comes the Sun - Options for Using Solar Cookers in Developing Countries - GTZ
- Evaluation report on the Iridimi Refugee Camp project now online
- Newsletter added: Solar Serve News #17 (Vietnam Solar Serve)
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New
plans:
The Fun-Panel cooker -
New
plans: La Cocina
Parabólica Plegable - Audio interview and YouTube video with Gabriele Simbriger-Williams discussing her recent visit to camps for Darfur refugees where thousands of solar cookers are in use
- Finland buys Certified Emission Reductions from solar cooker project in China - Kauppalehti Online
- Chinese plans added: The Windshield Shade Solar Funnel Cooker
- Thai plans added: The Windshield Shade Solar Funnel Cooker
- How to make a gift to Solar Cookers International in honor of someone
- FoST of Nepal is one of the 3 finalists in the World Challenge 2007! As runner up FoST has won $10.000 in the global competition organized by BBC World, Shell and Newsweek.
- YouTube video showing Darfur refugee woman cooking with her CooKit and transferring the pot to a heat-retention cooker - CARE Germany
- Hanukkah puts light on Darfur - Newsday
- Solar Cookers Get Put To The Test By "America's Test Kitchen" - The Early Show (CBS video)
- The November 2007 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
- Report on September 2007 Rocket stove and solar cooker project in Oaxaca, Mexico shows various Rocket stove construction methods.
- Security Through Solar - Washington Post letter to the editor
- New plans: The CooKit panel cooker in Arabic (Thanks to Stephe Harrigan)
- The video Suncookers is now playing on the Documentary Channel on many cable and satellite systems.
- Donate to the KoZon / Jewish World Watch Darfur solar cooking project. A $30 donation provides one family with 2 Solar Cookers, 2 Pots, training, and a year's supply of plastic bags.
- Solar oven donations crucial (Re: Kyoto Twist Solar Cooking Society) - The Powell River Peak
- Report on Jewish World Watch visit to Darfur refugees in Chad
- AP video footage taken at the US State Department in September 2007 at an all-day solar cooker demo for the Refugee Bureau. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey is featured.
- Solar Cookers International has been awarded a grant of $220,000 from the Goldman Fund to support the Safe Water Package Project, which will distribute water testing and solar pasteurization kits in western Kenya and train community members in their use.
- FoST of Nepal is among the 12 finalists for the World Challenge 2007. This global competition was set up three years ago by the BBC World, Newsweek and Shell to recognize the innovators of this world. Details on the BBC broadcast schedule of a half-hour documentary covering FoST's work are here. To vote to make FoST the winner, please go here.
- Scottsdale Green Building Expo features a solar cooking competition among 10 local chefs.
- SCI's Annual Report for 2006 is now online
- SCI Director Patrick Widner on local Sacramento TV
- Document added: The Technology of Solar Cooking - Dr. Ed Pejack
- Solar lifeline saves Darfur women - CNN International
- Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide - US Department of State
- Cooking in Sun Better for Environment - WUSA TV
- Cooking under the sun - The Chicago Tribune
- SCI's Shine On event will take place on September 12 at the Sacramento Zoo
- New document: Safe Water from Sunshine
- Bob Metcalf interviewed on Sacramento NPR program
- New document: Low-cost box cooker made of local materials in India
- Three simple ways to put solar power to use - Dow Jones MarketWatch
- When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven - The Globe and Mail
- The July 2007 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
- Erratic Monsoon, Glacier Retreat - Brown Cloud [from cooking fires] Involved In All - NewsPost India
- To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project - Catholic Sentinel
- New document: The Windshield Shade Cooker in Persian
- Cooking fires add to global warming - The New Zealand Herald
- Under the Sun - The Baltimore Sun
- Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris (includes video) - The Christian Science Monitor
- Rep. Mark Udall, congressman from Colorado, is sponsoring a solar cooking demonstration July 26-27 for the US Congress
- Watch a new video showing Solar Household Energy's work with HotPot cookers in Mexico.
- Conservation Saves More Than the Environment - The Washington Post
- Solar Cooking Archive Wiki featured article for July 16, 2007: Vietnam Solar Serve
- Solar Serve News #15 from Vietnam now online
- Solar ovens utilize nature's rays for energy-efficient, everyday cooking -- even in foggy San Francisco - San Francisco Chronicle
- YouTube video showing Darfur Peace and Development Organization solar cooking project in Sudan
- New document: Making the CooKit more durable
- Solar Cooking Archive Wiki featured article for June 17, 2007: The Integrated Cooking Method
- Interview with Ravindra and Shobha Pardeshi Inventors of the Parvati Solar Cooker
- Little pieces go a long way to provide safe water - Knoxville Sentinel News
- Thirty thousand solar cookers to be sent to Indonesia to cut kerosene use in European CDM project - The Jakarta Post
- Lansing State Journal: Solar Circle provides impetus for change -- MSU students’ re-engineered ovens help impoverished in Tanzania
- If you know of someone who is making a difference in the climate-change debate, NPR wants to hear from you.
- Sacramento News Review: Sacramento's Solar Cookers International uses the sun to improve quality of life, one village at a time.
- The March 2007 issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
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Tanzania
issues solar cooking stamp -
Paraguay
issues solar cooking stamp - Regula Ochsner of the NGO ADES in Madagascar has been awarded the international "Women of the Earth Award" by the Yves Rocher Foundation. The award ceremony in Paris and was attended by French Minister for the Environment. Ochsner plans to invest the prize money of €10,000 in a further solar cooker pilot project in the south of Madagascar.
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SCI's
Kenya Office newsletter online - Spring 2007 newsletter from Vietnam Solar Serve posted.
- Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees
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Plans
for the Clean Green solar cooker - Solar Cooker Dissemination in Kenya (a March 2007 case study on Sunny Solutions by Pascale Dennery)
- New audio interview: Pascale Dennery, SCI's outgoing Director of International Program Development discussed Darfur refugees, the Sunny Solutions project in Kenya, plus much more
- February '07 factsheet on the projects to help Darfur refugees
- Solar cooking project to help Darfur refugees getting underway at the Touloum refugee camp in Chad
- New film: Sustainable Energy in Nepal, Solar cookers, briquette oven, pasteurizers, dryers
- Report on the use of HotPot solar cookers to reduce air pollution from cooking fires in northern Mexico
- Jewish World Watch is coordinating donations to supply solar cookers to the Darfur refugees in Chad
- Rural Kenyan Women on Vanguard of African Solar Revolution - Agence France Presse
- New document: Environmental Feedback and Anthropometrical Results of a Solar Cooker for Houses in Arid Zones (Covers through-the-wall ovens)
- New document: Towards sustainable relief-assistance - Applicability of the sunny solution (Covers solar cookers in the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal)
- Nos dias 16 e 17 de Março de 2007 irá realizar-se um "Piquenique Solar" na Ecoteca de Olhão, Portugal.
- New audio interview: Allart Ligtenberg discussing a recent project in Mexico and his work with the Rotary Club on projects in Nepal, Indonesia, and Afghanistan.
- Who's Who in the Solar Cooking Movement
- Compendium of Solar Cooker Designs
- A video interview with SCI's Faustine Odaba at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya. January 2007. Interviewer is Jason Nardi of Arcoiris TV.
- "Stoves for a Better Life" seminar to be held in La Paz, Bolivia on 5-7 March, 2007. Integrated cooking methods, including solar cookers and improved biomass stoves, will be highlighted. The draft program is available for download in Spanish (pdf) and English (pdf).
- Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking
- New Persian document: Solar cooking in Iran
- 2007 "Prize for Humanity" goes to one Dutch and two Africans — Derk Rijks, Marie-Rose Neloum, and Gillhoube Patallet — who aided Darfur refugees by arranging the distribution of thousands of solar cookers.
