Solar Cooking News
The HotPots of Mme Sissoko Aïssata Diarra
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
World Vison Report: Kitchen Appliance Plugged into the Sun
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
Evaluation of a Solar Oven Promotion Program in Ethiopia, 1997-2001
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
FSEC Helps Develop More Efficient and Durable Solar Cooker
The Energy Chronicle, A Newsletter of the Florida Solar Energy Center, July 2005 Most research centers like FSEC depend on contracts and external funding to conduct their programs, and the image of a scientist pursuing grants as aggressively… Read More
Mexican Straw Weavers in Mixteca Region of Oaxaca Learn to Solar Cook
by Louise Meyer, Solar Household Energy, Inc., Weave A Real Peace Newsletter, Summer 2005 “Pulvo de Agua’, an association of Mixteca artisans began in 1999 initiated by Jose Luis Garcia, a Mixteca Indian himself and a well-known muralist…. Read More
