Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service Conference

Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service Conference

by Bridget Huttenlocher, April 17, 2007 Solar Household Energy presented the HotPot at the annual Engineers in Technical and Humanitarian Opportunities of Service (ETHOS) January 2007conference in Kirkland, Washington. ETHOS is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to… Read More

Partners in Senegal Embrace the HotPot

by Marie-Ange Binagwaho, January 2006 In November 2006 I traveled to Senegal to meet our partners and to review the progress of our pilot launch preparations. I visited five villages north of Dakar where, over the last six… Read More

First Major Shipment of HotPots to Mali, West Africa

by Richard Stolz More than one thousand (1,048, to be specific) HotPot solar ovens arrived this summer in Bamako, Mali, West Africa . The 40-foot HotPot-laden shipping container represents SHE Inc.’s first major delivery of HotPots to Africa…. Read More

Field Tests of the HotPot, a New Solar Cooker, in West Africa

by Melanie Szulczewski, Ph.D., October 2006 According to the World Bank, 94% of the African rural population and 73% of the urban population use fuelwood as their primary energy source. Unfortunately, supplies of fuelwood are diminishing throughout the… Read More

World Bank’s Wolfowitz Hails SHE’s HotPot

by Richard Stolz, Solar Household Energy, Inc., Summer 2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz recently singled out SHE’s HotPot solar oven as an example of a product that “helps poor people seize the opportunities they need to transform… Read More

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

Opportunity Ripe for Solar Cooking in Mali

by Christine Danton, Solar Household Energy, Inc., August 2004 During my recent trip to Mali, I awoke at 4:30 AM one morning. The roosters were crowing, the sun was announcing its arrival and the call to prayer cut… Read More