On July 30, 2021, Paul Arveson, SHE Research Director and Board member, and American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Fellow, gave a presentation entitled “Progress in Meeting Energy Needs of the World’s Poor” at the 2021 Annual ASA conference, held… Read More

This video showcases over three years of work uplifting women from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca with the Haines solar ovens, reflected in the experience acquired by the community leaders. The relevance and adoption of the use of… Read More

In 2020, SHE joined forces with solar cooking expert Tom Sponheim, embracing his “100 families” project in Nairobi to lift up 100 families that sank into poverty due to Coronavirus pandemic effects. Using a new radically transparent model,… Read More

Dear friend of Solar Household Energy, We are deeply saddened to pass on the news that Darwin O’Ryan Curtis, a co-founder of Solar Household Energy and leading figure in the solar cooking movement, died on Nov. 5 at age… Read More

Dear friend of Solar Household Energy, For nearly two decades, Solar Household Energy has been a key player in the global solar cooking movement. We have developed innovative solar cooking technology, brought solar cooking to thousands across the… Read More

Bibiana Hernández, from the community of San Miguel del Valle, Tlacolula, Oax, has been using her Haines solar oven for 2 years and promoting it in her communities as part of the pilot project promoted by Solar Household… Read More

The Inter Press Service News Agency recently spotlighted SHE’s program efforts in Oaxaca, Mexico where the presence of solar cooking is strengthening communities and providing safe alternatives to wood-fire and gas cooktop methods. To see the coverage produced… Read More

This Mother’s Day, please consider giving the gift of solar cooking to mothers like Eva, featured below, to free them of the burden of cooking with dirty fuels on inefficient stoves. Household air pollution from dirty cookstoves causes… Read More

On April 7, SHE’s Executive Director Sophie Lyman and SHE Board member Margarita Battle were interviewed by Emerald Planet TV. The first segment (min 1-13) is an introduction to solar cooking. In Segment 2 (min 16-29), Margarita discusses… Read More

With great relief, we announce that Congolese refugee Lunda Vicente, a great long-time friend of SHE and solar cooking champion, has survived typhoid fever contracted in the recent cyclone Idai and resulting floods. Lunda is trapped in extreme… Read More