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Backwoods Home Magazine
Build It Solar
Cook With The Sun
How Stuff Works
Integrated Solar Cooking
Ivan’s Place
Journey To Forever
Knowledge Hound
Nature Craft Project
Solar Circle
Solar Cooker At Cantina West
Solar Cooking Archive
Solar Cookers World Network
Solar Food Processing & Conservation
Solar Oven Society
Solreka
Sun Gravity Online
Tamara’s Solar Cooking Page
Wikipedia Article
Backwoods Home Magazine
An article, Making and using a solar cooker, provides detailed instructions and drawings on building a cooker, as well as tips on using the cooker.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/radabaugh30.html
Build It Solar
This web site provides plans for building solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar food dryers. In addition, a number of resources and links are also provided.
http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Cooking/cooking.htm
Cook with the Sun
This web site is about solar ovens and solar cooking. It provides recipes, plans for building cookers, as well as places where cookers can be purchased.
How Stuff Works
This article is entitled “How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?” It details how the use of solar ovens is helping women in refugee camps in Darfur, Chad.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm
Integrated Solar Cooking
The mission of ISC is offering sustainable technology to the residents of impoverished countries; empowering them to improve their quality of life. The site provides information on integrated (solar) cooking, projects, recipes, and also a WAPI (Water Pasteurization Indicator), a simple, low-cost device containing a special soy wax that helps users determine when water has reached pasteurization temperatures.
http://www.integratedsolarcooking.com
Ivan’s Place
This web site provides very detailed and illustrated instructions for building a solar cooker.
http://www.williamgbecker.com/MakeSolarOven.html
Journey to Forever
Journey to Forever is a pioneering expedition by a small, mobile non-government organization involved in environment and rural development work, starting from Hong Kong and traveling through 26 countries in Asia and Africa to Cape Town, South Africa. This page provides helpful information on solar box cookers, as well as resource links.
http://www.journeytoforever.org/sc.html
Knowledge Hound
This web site has an extensive list of resources and links for solar ovens and cookers, building them, recipes and tips, and solar food dryers.
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/solarcoo.htm
Nature Craft Project
This is an introduction to cooking with solar energy, including an easy plan to make your own solar cooker from cardboard boxes. The site has compiled some great solar cooking resources for the beginner so that you can quickly access everything that you need to know—from soup to nuts solar cooker recipes, to safe and efficient operation of your homemade solar cooker.
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/nature/solar-cooker.shtml
Solar Circle
Solar Circle is a nonprofit organization working to establish solar cooking in Tanzania. A few years ago, Solar Circle transported two dozen sun ovens to Masasi, Tanzania, where they were enthusiastically received. People quickly saw the impossibility of importing enough ovens to overcome their high purchase and transport costs. Consequently, Solar Circle started a small industry in Tanzania to build the ovens.
Solar Cooker at Cantina West
Extensive information on solar cooking, types of cookers, building your own, cooking tips, recipes, canning, a list of blogs, resources, and links.
http://www.solarcooker-at-cantinawest.com
The Solar Cooking Archive
This site is maintained by Solar Cookers International. SCI is a nonprofit organization that since its founding in 1987, has spread solar cooking skills and technologies where they are needed most. Solar Cookers International assists communities to use the power of the sun to cook food and pasteurize water for the benefit of people and environments. Over 30,000 families have directly benefited from SCI’s field projects, and countless others have used SCI’s resources to learn how to make and use solar cookers and teach others to do the same.
Solar Cookers World Network
Solar Cookers World Network, formerly Solar Cookers International Association, is a worldwide community of independent agencies and individual promoters and advocates of solar cookers, pasteurizers and food processors.
http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cookers_World_Network
Solar Food Processing & Conservation
Solar Food Processing and Conservation is a project coordinated by the International Solar Energy Society and intends to establish a global network of interested parties (NGOs, politicians, farmers, and experts), that will aim to gather, further develop, and promote efficient methods of solar food processing and conservation. The initiative primarily targets developing countries with a high solar radiation potential, where there is a need for unique and sustainable development assistance and concepts in the area of solar food processing and conservation.
Solar Oven Society
The SOS exists to promote solar cooking to the American public and to provide a way to partner with the over 2 billion people worldwide who lack adequate fuel for cooking their food. Persons Helping People, the sponsor of the Solar Oven Society, is a nonprofit corporation. Following the wishes of its first donor, PHP is dedicated to helping alleviate hunger in developing countries by helping people help themselves.
Solreka
Instructions on building a parabolic solar cooker.
http://solreka.com/blog/solar-cooking/how-to-build-parabolic-solar-cooker/
Sun Gravity Online
SunGravity Online, hosted by the Sunstove Organization, is a nonprofit group devoted to the dissemination of information to improve the quality of life of the poor. This site is a source for information relating to clean water and solar cooking systems for rural communities worldwide. Their mission is to provide the fundamental information and drawings to facilitate improving the safety and cleanliness of the basic elements of any family’s existence: food and water. The Solar Cooking section provides in-depth information, drawings, and photographs on how to mass-produce solar cookers by hand, with local materials, purchased with local currency.
Tamara’s Solar Cooking Pages
The content for this series of pages is based on a report by Tamara Dwyer for a Technical Communication class at Austin Community College. The report describes solar box cookers and provides instructions for their construction and use as a project demonstrating alternative energy to physical science students.
http://www.tamaradwyer.com/solcook/index.html
Wikipedia Article
Helpful article providing information on types of cookers, cooking, uses, as well as references and external links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker
