Solar Cooking News

by Melanie Szulczewski, Ph. D., Solar Household Energy, June 2006 A review of evaluations of solar cooking projects using box and panel solar ovens in Bolivia, Ethiopia, and Kenya provides conclusive evidence of successful technology transfer and cultural… 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

by Najiba Abdellaoui, odemagazine.com, January 2006 Mme Sissoko Aïssata Diarra is making a name for herself in global ecology circles as promoter of the HotPot initiative. HotPots are low-cost, easy-to-use solar ovens developed by Solar Household Energy (SHE),… Read More

Interview with SHE partner and Director of the Mexican Nature Conservation Fund and the Director of the Sierra Gordas Ecological Group in Mexico. Solar cookers require nothing more than the sun’s energy to heat up food. And in… 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