Solar Cooking Project in the Dominican Republic
by The Nature Conservancy, 2013
SHE's joint solar cooking project with The Nature Conservancy in the Dominican Republic
Report on Large-Scale Solar Cooking Projects in Asia
by Darwin Curtis, Dec 2011  Solar Cooking Art by Congolese Refugee Lunda Vincente
Lunda Vincente, a Congolese refugee in a camp in Zimbabwe has been corresponding with Louise Meyer of SHE for several years. He continues to share with us his beautiful artwork, much of which tells the story of solar cooking. Solar Household Energy has arranged for several shows of his art in the Washington DC area. Wanting others to see his work as well, we have created a blog to display it. Keep checking back, as he is constantly adding new works.
Solar Cooking Resolution Adopted at IUCN World Conservation Congress
by D Zbicz, Jeju, South Korea, 12 Sept 2012
The International Union for the Conservation at its quadrennial World Conservation Congress has adopted a motion on Solar Cooking and its Contribution to Healthy and Resilient Ecosystems and Communities. This is the first time that IUCN has considered this topic, which extremely relevant to the priorities of the IUCN.
SHE Internships Available for 2012
Integrated Solar Cooking - An Underutilized Solution
by Paul Arveson, American Scientific Affiliation, 2012
New article by SHE Board Member, Paul Arveson on the many benefits of solar cooking
 Solar cooking in Gaga refugee camp, preliminary analysis
Supplemental information on SHE's UN CDM submission
by Solar Household Energy, Oct 2011
This report accompanied SHE's submission to the UN Clean Development Mechanism regarding comments on their methology for evaluating cookstove projects.
Microfinancing Intervention for Financing Solar Cooking
by Gunjan Gautam, Georgia Institute of Technology
Executive Summary of a Research Project on Microfinancing for Solar Cooking that Solar Household Energy contracted in 2011. The full paper is currently being reviewed for publication and will be made available when published.
Solar Household Energy submits comments to UN on Solar Cooking
by Solar Household Energy, Oct 2011
In 2011, the Clean Development Mechanism of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change requested comments on their methodology for evaluating solar cookstoves. Solar Household Energy submitted comments in Oct and has been communicating with the CDM team on follow-up to its input. We are glad to hear that solar ovens are accepted as cookstoves and eligible for the CDM funding. Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves 1st Year Annual Report
The Global Alliance's Annual Report reflects an impressive list of achievements for its first year. Featured is a photo by Patricia McArdle of Cookit solar ovens in Darfur refugee camp, although most of the Alliance's emphasis thus far has been on biomass stoves. We continue to press for them to support more research on solar and integrated cooking as the cleanest of all cooking solutions. Listen to an interview about solar cooking with SHE's Louise Meyer
Solar Power Beginner is a website that gives you straightforward information on solar energy and what it can do for you. Listen to Louise's interview. Cooking Beans with the HotPot in Mexico
Nice video on how the HotPot works and how to use it. Narrated in Spanish. Frijoles hirviendo con el sol en mi olla solar. Parade Magazine: Solar cookers are being used in refugee camps
Solar cooking in Gaga refugee camp in eastern Chad Cooking Beans with the Sun in Mexico
Afterthought for Some, Daily Struggle for Others
by Matt Styslinger, WorldWatch, July 2011
Solar cooking and Solar Household Energy featured in WorldWatch blog - Nourishing the Planet
Solar Cooking Event at Mosque in Northern Virginia
by Pat McArdle, July 11, 2011
Pat McArdle of Solar Cookers International and Louise Meyer of Solar Household Energy participated in a Solar Cooking Expo at Dar al Noor Mosque in Manassas, Virginia. Interview with Patricia McArdle on Solar Cooking in Afghanistan
Listen to Pat McArdle's interview with NPR about her new book and solar cooking. Radio Interview with SHE's Louise Meyer
by Corbbmacc O'Connor - WAMU 88.5
Louise Meyer solar cooks for WAMU 88.5 radio reporter Corbbmacc O'Connor. Solar Household Energy co-founder Darwin Curtis Named Purpose Prize Fellow
Purpose Prizes Honor Americans Over Age 60 for
Making an Extraordinary Impact in their Encore Careers
Solar Cooking in El Salvador
New Research Re-Confirms Acceptance and Benefits of Solar Cooking HotPot demonstration at Google headquarters
by Pat McArdle, Summer 2009
Solar cooker advocates gathered at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. for a day-long demo organized by SHE Board Chairman Pat McArdle and Mark Aubin, the founder of Google Earth. Google's own chefs cooked several varieties of chili in three Hot Pots and two Sun Ovens.
Baking in the Sun
by Christopher Flynn, Montgomery Gazette, May 5, 1995
Solar cooking among energy alternative for developing nations
The Sun Also Braises
by Rick Weiss, The Washington Post
Renewable Energy Advocates Offer Invention That Can Harness and Ease Global Warming Solar cooking's potential highlighted at recent conferences in India
by Pat McArdle, Spring 2009
Two conferences held this winter in India highlighted the importance of solar cooking in reducing indoor air pollution, deforestation, black carbon and the danger faced by women who must forage for wood. The World Wildlife Fund Nepal conducts trainings with HotPot
by Pat McArdle, Spring 2009
The World Wildlife Fund Nepal asked a representative of Solar Household Energy to travel to Nepal to train villagers and the staff of WWF Nepal how to use the 500+ HotPot solar ovens that were purchased with a grant from Alcoa Foundation. A Fast Insight Into: Solar Cooking in Developing Countries
Blue Avocado, December 31, 2008
"A solar cooker is a heat trap - a greenhouse effect in a pot - like the way your car heats up in the summertime when the windows are closed."
Más mujeres cocinan con rayos del sol para reemplazar leña y gas
Conciencia newswire service , Marzo 31, 2008
La vida le cambió a Lorena Harp desde que comenzó a cocinar con el sol. Este no sólo se ha convertido en su mejor compañero, sino que hasta está enamorada de él.
Harp aprendió que con el sol podía cocer verduras, cocinar carne y hacer pasteles sin necesidad de usar electricidad, leña, ni gas.
Update: SHE and Tostan Begin Solar Cooking Partnership In Senegal
by Marie-Ange Binagwaho, March 9, 2008
Last Sunday, Solar Household Energy and Tostan had a very successful training session with the Senegal Solar Cooking Initiative, a project we are implementing in partnership with 21 Community Management Committees in villages in the Thies region. SHE Addresses Renewable Energy Conference In Washington
by Richard Stolz, Spring 2008
A large audience attended a panel presentation titled Solar cooking: Renewable energy at home for a greener, healthier and wealthier world, organized by SHE at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference on March 3. Executive Director Marie-Ange Binagwaho spoke on SHE’s behalf.
Solar Cooker Project Evaluation, Iridimi Refugee Camp, Chad
by Brie Loskota, University of Southern California, October 2007
Women and girls who live in the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad face attack and rape by the local population, bandits, and the Janjaweed militia when they leave the camp to gather firewood for their cooking needs. In 2005, "Cookit" solar cookers were introduced in the Iridimi camp as part of an effort to reduce reliance on firewood and in turn improve the safety of the refugee women by lessening the need to leave the camp to collect wood. In October 2007, a team of 15 people from eight organizations conducted an evaluation of solar cooking in the camp.
A Solar Cooking Success Story in a Darfuri Refugee Camp
by Melanie Szulczewski, Spring 2008
A recent evaluation of solar cooker use in one Darfuri refugee camp shows significant improvements in families’ lives thanks to the acceptance and use of solar cookers. The Iridimi refugee camp, a camp of over 17,000 Darfur refugees in Chad, now has 15,000 CooKits, an affordable, simple solar cooker developed by Solar Cookers International. The report, “Solar Cooker Project Evaluation: Iridimi Refugee Camp, Chad,” prepared by Brie Loskota, a program evaluator and the associate director for the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, in October 2007 describes and quantifies the benefits to the refugees. HotPots Aid Flood Victims In Tabasco, Mexico
by Richard Stolz, Spring 2008
Last November, one of the worst floods in Mexico’s history ravaged the southern state of Tabasco, displacing hundreds of thousands of residents for several weeks. In response, two of SHE Inc.’s partner organizations in Mexico, the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (MFCN) and International Logistics Solutions (ILS), made available 400 HotPot solar ovens to flood victims. (ILS manufactures HotPots in Mexico.) Solar Household Energy, Inc. Participates in the Green Festival 2007
by Bridget Huttenlocher, Fall 2007
Louise Meyer of Solar Household Energy spoke at the Living Green Pavilion at the Washington, DC Green Festival October 6th. In addition the HotPot was displayed at the festival where hundreds of visitors learned about the HotPot; our activities abroad, and how people are using the HotPot in their backyards in Washington, DC. International Foundation Awarded SHE a $10K Grant
by Bridget Huttenlocher, Summer 2007
The International Foundation awarded SHE a $10K grant for the expansion of the Asociación Comunitaria Unida por el Agua y la Agricultura (ACUA) HotPot solar cooking program in El Salvador Experimenting With Local Production of the HotPot Reflector in Senegal
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. HotPot Recipe Book Created in El Salvador
by Bridget Huttenlocher, Summer 2007
Women participating in the El Salvador HotPot pilot project took it upon themselves to create a recipe book. Solar Cooking Targets the Hill
by Patricia McArdle, Summer 2007
In late July, Solar Household Energy collaborated with a number of organizations to demonstrate solar cooking on Capitol Hill with the goal of raising awareness among legislators and their staff, and government agency personnel. Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service Conference
by Bridget Huttenlocher, April 17, 2007
Staff presented the HotPot at the annual Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) conference in Washington state. ETHOS is an international non-profit organization coordinating research on appropriate technology for the household. Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Conference
by Bridget Huttenlocher, April 17, 2007
Solar Household Energy exhibited the HotPot at the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Conference in Bangalore, India. The conference was dedicated to sharing alternative technologies to reduce indoor air pollution and clean indoor air program best practices.
La Lena, Su combustion y sus consecuencias a nivel mundial y en Mexico (in Spanish)
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
Solar Cooking and Health
by Darwin O'Ryan Curtis, Boiling Point Magazine No 52, December 2006
Solar cooking technology has been around for decades, but has been poorly understood and has not been widely disseminated. Here are some ideas on what solar cooking is about, and its capabilities - as well as its limitations. El Salvador HotPot Program
by Camille McCarthy, January 2006
In November 2006, Solar Household Energy launched a two-year solar cooking project in El Salvador that will provide HotPots, solar cooking training, and support to 800 families. In El Salvador, approximately 65% of the population uses wood to cook, but the practice contributes significantly to deforestation and negative health impacts for women and children including respiratory infections and burns. Furthermore firewood collection imposes significant time burdens and cooking gas purchase places extreme financial hardships. Help us raise $50,000 to implement this program. Partners in Senegal Embrace the HotPot
by Marie-Ange Binagwaho, January 2006
The coordinators in Senegal have been using their HotPot daily and they are excited about the meals they’ve cooked and their fuel savings. Their experience has increased interest throughout the village. This pilot program in Senegal began in November and includes 120 participants in 5 villages north of Dakar. Solar Energy Week Brings Message Down to Earth in Mexico
by Talli Nauman, Herald/Mexico, October 9, 2006
The International Relations Center, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide information and analysis that increase social and economic justice throughout the world, recently cited the HotPot as an example of an effective solar cooker that is both produced and sold in Mexican communities. Mexico is working to structure a national training program to help individuals understand the utility of solar and wind power in cost effectiveness for health and the environment. 
Link TV: Earth Focus Washington, DC Green Festival 2006
The HotPot is featured on Earth Focus TV. This program highlights the Green Festival that promotes a
sustainable economy, ecological balance, and social justice. Over 300 exhibitors attended the festival
and Solar Household Energy was one of a few organizations highlighted in this program.
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