SCInet Solar Cooking Convention Schedule July 17-19, 2014
Session
Title
Name
Topic
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014
Attendees: Please BE AT THE CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM No later than 8 AM THURSDAY to complete Check-In
Check-in at the California
All Participants
Check in
Automobile Museum; Breakfast
Optional Purchases: Collection of Convention Papers
7:30 – 8:45 am
Sign up for those attending dinner that evening at The Old Spaghetti Factory (no host)
Drop off posters if not submitted for printing by SCI
** Continental Breakfast available in the Education Center**
8:50
Welcome
Svetlana Hristova,
Housekeeping Details. All Convention attendees complete the pre-survey found in the
SCI
Convention folder. This will be collected before the Keynote presentation begins.
1
Keynote
Julie Greene,
Introduced by Pat McArdle, SCI
9 am
Executive Director,
SCI
2
Solar Cooking
Dr. Ed Pejack
3-min: 1st International Conference, Stockton, 1992
9:30 am
Sector: Successes
Dr. Paul Funk
Presents ‘catalog’ of impact data from global solar cooking projects
Grace Magney,
Successes in Afghanistan (Pat McArdle to provide ppt for Grace)
(Afghanistan)
Lineker Phuong,
Solar Cooking at Night: phase-changing nitrate salts for heat storage
Alexsandra Guerra,
Carlotta PhamUC
Irvine (USA)
10:20 am
10-minute BREAK
3
Sustainable
Dr. Allart
1. Inclusive integrated approaches with solar cookers and other technologies/
10:30 am
Project Design
Ligtenberg, FAST,
vocations improve economic development and quality of life in Nepal villages.
Rotary (Nepal)
2. Share baseline data for fuel wood used in trekking lodges.
3. Lessons learned
Susan Kinne, Grupo Edu-tourism model of Sabana Grande: Lessons learned
Fenix (Nicaragua)
Dr. Janak Palta
Empowering young Rural and Tribal women with Solar Cookers: Lessons learned from
McGilligan (India)
implementation of two successful models in India
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4
11:30 am
Funding for the
Solar Cooking
Sector
Lunch 12:30
5
Income
1:15 pm
Generation
6
2:15 pm
Special Topics
Dr. Shyam S.
Nandwani (Costa
Rica)
Solar Food warmers for Educational Centres in Costa Rica
Jack Garvey, Jr.
(USA)
Financial Products: Reducing Risk for Solar Cooking Projects
Pat McArdle, SCI
(USA)
David Whitfield,
CEDESOL (Bolivia)
Jack Anderson,
Kyoto Twist Society
(Canada)
Factors that give funders confidence
Jagadeeswara
Reddy
(India)
Dr. Pete Schwartz,
CalPoly San Luis
Obispo (USA)
Edye Kuyper (USA)
Dr. Ajay Chandak
(India)
Concept Of Renewable Energy/Model Village
Rolf Behringer
(Germany)
Natalia Blackburn
(USA)
Stewart
MacLachlan
(Scotland)
(presented by
Natalia Blackburn)
Solar Food Preservation
Carbon Credits as Accessible Funding: CDM, Gold standard projects
Carbon Credits as Accessible Funding: Voluntary Carbon Offsets
Inexpensive, High Performance Solar Concentrators for less than $0.1 per Watt
Solar cooking, women’s empowerment, and food and nutrition security
Evolution of PRINCE Paneled Concentrating Solar Dish Cookers as DIY Kits
Characteristics of solar cooking households in the US (Comparison with RECS survey)
SOLAR COOKING IN THE UK: Quantifying UK domestic energy savings using a solar box
cooker
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3:15 pm
15-minute BREAK
7
Advocacy
3:30 pm
8
4:45 pm
9
5:45 pm
6 pm
Global Promotion
Insights from Day
1 Presentations
GROUP PHOTO at
the California
Automobile
Museum
Lynn Bergeron
(USA)
Solar Cooking in Micronesia: Lessons learned in Chuuk
Crosby Menzies,
SunFire Solutions
(South Africa)
Louise Meyer/
Sophie Brock, Solar
Household Energy
(USA)
Dr. AJ Lederman,
SCI, United Nations
NY (USA)
The most well-funded solar cooker program in the world: lessons learned from GTZ
Dr. Alan Bigelow,
Solar Punch (USA)
Nathan Parry,
CantinaWest (USA)
Dave Chalker,
SunBD Corporation
(USA)
Dr. Catlin Powers,
One Earth Designs
(China)
Solar Trekking
National and international advocacy efforts: 2014 and beyond
The value and structure of NGO participation at the United Nations civil society
The need for global marketing for solar cooking
Future technology challenge: addressing the past and present
The global public image of solar cookers: notes from the field
Julie Greene
All
Charley Cross,
Photographer
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END DAY I
6:15 pm
Depart for dinner
at The Old
Spaghetti Factory
(optional)
1910 J St,
Sacramento, CA
95811
6:30 pm
Dinner at
The Old
Spaghetti
FRIDAY
Attendees: Please BE AT THE CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM no later than 8 AM FRIDAY
10
Poster
All Poster
8 am
Presentations/
Presenters
Breakfast
11
Solar Cooking
Dr. Ajay Chandak
Specific solar cooker criteria for prospective users or buyers
9:30 am
Sector: Challenges (India)
Dr. Catlin Powers,
The need for a consumer certification for solar cookers
One Earth Designs
(China)
Relevant factors for the successful adoption of institutional solar cookers
Dr. Pia Otte
(Norway)
Gordon Bauer
Evaluation of usage and fuel savings of solar ovens in Nicaragua
(USA)
12
10:30 am
Standards, Testing
and Certification
(Part I)
Dr. William Bradley, Reciprocal Optical Test for Measuring Solar Cooker Performance
Western New
England University
(USA)
Bernhard Müller
Water Boiling Test for solar cookers
(Germany)/Faustine
Odaba (Kenya)
Dr. Ajay Chandak,
Development of Universal Standards for Solar Cookers for Use at Test Centers
PRINCE (India)
11:20 am
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10-minute BREAK
13
Standards, Testing
11:30 am
and Certification
(Part II)
Lunch 12:30 pm
14
Discussion and
1:15 pm
Decision: Solar
Cooker Standards
Dr. Chandak/Dr.
Funk
ASAE -581 Standards: updates
Dr. Paul Funk,
SCInet (USA)
Dr. Michael
Nicholas,
University of
California, Davis
(USA)
ISO TAG: Solar cookers and safety standards for cookstoves
Solar Cooking in the Digital Age: Opportunities for Cooking with and Testing Solar Ovens
Using Microcontrollers
All
15
2:30 pm
First Working
Group
All
16
3:45 pm
Collaboration
Model for the
Solar Cooking
Sector
Tom Sponheim,
SCI/Paul Hedrick,
SCI
SCInet Wiki
Dr. Catlin Powers
Dr. Pia Otte
Julie Greene, SCI
(USA)
“How I Solar”: concept presentation
Mapping global impact data for solar cooking: a case study
SCInet: Where do we go from here? Participation and organizational models
17
4:45
Open Forum
Patricia McArdle,
SCI
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5:15 Dinner
18
6:15 pm
19
7:15 pm
Second Working
Group
Concluding
Remarks: The
Future We
Envision
All
Honey Walters,
President, SCI/Julie
Greene, SCI (USA)
8 pm END
DAY II
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 SACRAMENTO SOLAR COOKING FESTIVAL, WILLIAM LAND PARK, SACRAMENTO (corner of Freeport and Sutterville)
SOLAR CHEFS ARRIVE TO SET UP BETWEEN 8 AND 9 AM
10 am – 3 Public solar
SCInet Convention
pm
cooking
attendees and
demonstrations
Sacramento region
solar cooks
SOLAR CHEFS TAKE DOWN OVENS AND COMPLETE CLEAN UP BY 3:30 PM
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