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Solar cooking news
has now moved here!
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The August 2008 issue of Solar Cooker
Review
is now online
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Solar
cooking webpage contest.
Win up to $300.
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India's Temples Go Green - Time Magazine
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Solar Serve Vietnam's July 2008
newsletter is now online
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Google uses a solar cooking theme in its release of its Webmaster Tools API
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Radio Netherlands broadcasts a piece
about
Marie-Rose Neloum's work with Darfur refugees in
Chad.
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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.
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Margaret
Koshoni reports from
Nigeria on her
recent
lecture/demonstration
where the rented hall that seats 250 overflowed with more than 450
interested participants.
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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
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New newsletter: suNews
from
SCI's Nairobi office
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Solar Cookers
International's Annual Report for 2007 is now online
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Alex Kee wins
National Energy Globe Award for Malaysia
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Rays of hope for the Darfur refugees
- The Guardian Weekly (UK)
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World Bank audio interview with Margaret Owino
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Tastes Solar Cooking: “Fabulous!”
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YouTube video
of low-tech tracking
device for solar cookers
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Newsletter added: Solar Serve
News #18
(Vietnam
Solar Serve)
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YouTube video: Louise
Meyer and Patricia McArdle explain how solar cookers work
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Black carbon fast fix for climate change
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The March 2008 issue of Solar Cooker
Review
is now online
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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.
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Rachel Andres of
Jewish World
Watch receives
$100,000
Charles Bronfman Award
for Darfur
solar cooking project - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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New audio:
Battling Genocide One Cooker At a Time - KPCC FM
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Feature: Sunny side up
- The Financial Times
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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.
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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.
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New document:
Greenhouse Enclosure Comparison Tests
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Solar Cooking Archive Wiki in
French is taking shape
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Here Comes the Sun - Options for Using Solar Cookers in Developing Countries
- GTZ
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Evaluation report
on the
Iridimi Refugee Camp project now online
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Newsletter added: Solar Serve
News #17
(Vietnam
Solar Serve)
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New
plans:
The Fun-Panel cooker
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New
plans: La Cocina
Parabólica Plegable
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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
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Finland buys Certified Emission Reductions from solar cooker project in
China - Kauppalehti Online
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Chinese plans added: The Windshield
Shade Solar Funnel Cooker
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Thai plans added: The Windshield
Shade Solar Funnel Cooker
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How to make a gift to Solar Cookers International in
honor of
someone
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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.
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YouTube video
showing Darfur refugee woman cooking with her
CooKit and
transferring the pot to a
heat-retention cooker -
CARE Germany
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Hanukkah puts light on Darfur
- Newsday
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Solar Cookers Get Put To The Test By "America's Test Kitchen"
- The Early Show (CBS video)
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The November 2007 issue
of Solar Cooker Review is now online
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Report
on September 2007 Rocket stove and solar cooker project in Oaxaca, Mexico
shows various Rocket stove construction methods.
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Security Through Solar
- Washington Post letter to the editor
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New plans: The CooKit panel
cooker in Arabic
(Thanks to
Stephe Harrigan)
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The video
Suncookers is now playing on the Documentary Channel on many cable
and satellite systems.
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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.
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Solar oven donations crucial (Re:
Kyoto
Twist Solar Cooking Society) - The Powell River Peak
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Report on Jewish World Watch visit to Darfur refugees in Chad
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scottsdale Green
Building Expo features a solar cooking competition among 10 local chefs.
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SCI's Annual Report for 2006 is now online
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SCI Director Patrick Widner on local Sacramento TV
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Document added:
The Technology of Solar Cooking
- Dr.
Ed
Pejack
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Solar lifeline saves Darfur women
- CNN International
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Solar Cookers, Efficient Stoves Help Rural Families Worldwide -
US Department of State
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Cooking in Sun Better for Environment
- WUSA TV
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Cooking under the sun
- The Chicago Tribune
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SCI's
Shine On event will take place on September 12 at the Sacramento
Zoo
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New document:
Safe
Water from Sunshine
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Bob Metcalf
interviewed on
Sacramento NPR program
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New document:
Low-cost box cooker made of local materials in India
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Three simple ways to put solar power to use
- Dow Jones MarketWatch
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When the sun is shining, break out the solar oven
- The Globe and Mail
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The July 2007
issue of Solar Cooker Review is now online
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Erratic
Monsoon, Glacier Retreat - Brown Cloud [from cooking fires] Involved In All
- NewsPost India
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To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project
- Catholic Sentinel
- New document:
The
Windshield Shade Cooker in Persian
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Cooking fires add to global warming
- The New Zealand Herald
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Under the Sun
- The Baltimore Sun
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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
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Watch
a new video
showing
Solar Household Energy's work with
HotPot cookers in
Mexico.
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Conservation
Saves More Than the Environment
- The Washington Post
- Solar Cooking Archive Wiki featured article for July 16, 2007:
Vietnam Solar Serve
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Solar
Serve News #15
from
Vietnam now online
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Solar ovens utilize nature's rays for energy-efficient, everyday
cooking -- even in foggy San Francisco
- San Francisco Chronicle
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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
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Interview with Ravindra and Shobha Pardeshi Inventors of the Parvati
Solar Cooker
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Little pieces go a long way to provide safe water -
Knoxville Sentinel News
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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
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Paraguay
issues solar cooking stamp
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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
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Spring 2007 newsletter
from
Vietnam Solar Serve posted.
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Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees
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Plans
for the Clean Green solar cooker
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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
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February '07 factsheet on the projects to help Darfur refugees
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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
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Report on the use of HotPot solar cookers to reduce air pollution
from cooking fires in northern Mexico
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Jewish World Watch is coordinating donations to supply solar cookers
to the Darfur refugees in Chad
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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)
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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.
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Who's Who in the Solar Cooking Movement
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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).
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Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking
- New Persian document:
Solar cooking in
Iran
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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.
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