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CEDESOL Centro de Desarrrollo en Energia Solar

http://www.cedesol.org/
CEDESOL shares solar cooking technology with people in Peru and Bolivia. There is an interesting focus on using retained heat to cook.

Concrete Solar Concentrator

http://hubpages.com/hub/Concrete-Solar-concentrator
Instructions for making a cylindro-parabolic reflector in a concrete mold.

Cuisine Solaire

http://www.cuisinesolaire.com/
Multi-faceted solar cooking organization involved in research, dissemination, and development of solar cooking expertise. Based in Geneva, most of the content is in French.

EnergyTeachers.org Solar Cookouts

http://energyteachers.org/barbecues.php
EnergyTeachers.org encourages educators to get together informally over solar cookers in a public park. If you are interested in organizing events in your area you should publish in our listings linked there.

Four Solaire in Sorède, France

http://www.foursolaire.org/
Four Solaire hosts the reconstruction of Father Himalaya's 1900 solar cooker, an impressive array of cylindrical reflectors, said to be the first solar cooker.

Green Power Science

http://www.greenpowerscience.com/
Videos about renewable energy, especially solar cooking with fresnel lenses, explained by Denise and Dan Rojas.

http://home.earthlink.net/~drduggee/solar.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~drduggee/solar.htm

http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience/library/weekly/

http://kidscience.about.com/kids/kidscience/library/weekly/aa071198.htm

http://members.aol.com/solarcook/index.htm

http://members.aol.com/solarcook/index.htm

http://plaza12.mbn.or.jp/~solarcooking/englishhp.htm

http://plaza12.mbn.or.jp/~solarcooking/englishhp.htm

http://www.azsolarcenter.com/technology/cooking.html

http://www.azsolarcenter.com/technology/cooking.html

http://www.epsea.org/cook.html

http://www.epsea.org/cook.html

http://www.solar-ovens.com/

http://www.solar-ovens.com/

http://www.solarcook.com/

http://www.solarcook.com/

http://www.solarcookers.co.za/

http://www.solarcookers.co.za/

http://www.stanford.edu/group/syesp/activities/projects/

http://www.stanford.edu/group/syesp/activities/projects/engineer/physics.html

http://www.sunoven.com/

http://www.sunoven.com/
Sells solar ovens to combat deforestation. EnergyTeachers.org has one.

http://www.sunspot.org.uk/

http://www.sunspot.org.uk/

http://www.users.bigpond.com/solarbbq/

http://www.users.bigpond.com/solarbbq/

Integrated Solar Cooking

http://www.integratedsolarcooking.com/
Documenting several projects by Rotary International members, with helpful links and instructions for cookers and pasteurization indicators.

Kyoto Twist

http://kyototwist.org/
Kyoto Twist, a Canadian nonprofit, raises money and supports existing successful solar cooker programs in developing countries.

Les Amis du Padre Himalaya de Sorede

http://himalaya.vefblog.net
The Friends of Father Himalaya of Sorède maintain a monument to the first solar cooker, in the eastern Pyrénées. This blog documents their activities since June, 2008.
L’objectif de ce Blog est d’informer les adhérents et les personnes intéressées à l’environnement et aux energies renouvelables dans le cadre du développement durable.

Re-Energy.ca The Pembina Institute

http://www.re-energy.ca/
Student-centered project plans for working models using renewable energy. Also creator of a nation-wide (Canada) solar cooker challenge for students and teachers.

S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation

http://www.lightlink.com/francis/stevenhomepage.html
Sustainable Technology and Energy for Vital Economic Needs, a group for studying sustainable technology, especially solar technologies.

Solar Cooker at Cantinawest

http://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com/
Information about solar cookers around the world. Information includes instructions on making your own solar cookers, recipes, photos, reviews of commercially available cookers, links to organizations and experts, and events.

Solar Cookers International

http://www.solarcookers.org/
A not-for-profit organization gathering and disseminating great ideas for solar cooking.

Solar cooking blog Ishtar News by Esther Garvi

http://esthergarvi.com/category/personal/life-as-a-volunteer/solar-cooker-recipe/
Ms. Garvi lives in Niger, and writes about food in Niger and using her solar cooker there.

Solar Cooking Engineering Lesson from E21

http://www.pspb.org/e21/lessonplan_detail.php?lp_id=10
A lesson to compare possible combinations of materials for a box solar cooker. From Energy Education for the 21st Century, hosted by Penn State Public Broadcasting.

Solar cooking on a wintry day

http://energyteachers.org/ReadArticle.php?id=166
This article here at EnergyTeachers.org describes a simple solar cooker and a test on a freezing day.

Solar Cooking Plans at Solarcooking.org

http://solarcooking.org/plans.htm

Solar Hotdog Cooker

http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/light/solar_hotdog_cooker.html
This project shows how to build a parabolic cooker with helpful photos and numbers in case you don't want to calculate your own parabola.

Solar Oven Chef

http://solarovenchef.blogspot.com/
Follow this cook as she updates us almost every day for a year of solar cooking. Photos of each dish, and a frequent discussion of the weather.

Solar Oven Society

http://www.solarovens.org/

SunWorks Solar Food Dryer

http://www.solarfooddryer.com/
Information and resources on solar food dehydrating, centered around Eben Fodor's 2006 book, the Solar Food Dryer:How to Make and Use Your Own High-Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator.

The Solar Cooking Archive

http://solarcooking.org/
The most comprehensive site about solar cooking, with plans, descriptions, research, events, people, and links to information around the world.

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Taking Solar Cookers to Schools

Taking solar cookers to schools.pdf (file size:6,012,277 bytes)

A presentation given at American Association of Physics Teachers, Winter Meeting, 2019-01-15, by Shawn Reeves.

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