<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">I hope you find this information useful. I am a retired diplomat but have been doing pro-bono advising in the U.S. and overseas for the past 17 years. Let me know if there is any way I can assist your effort.</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Thanks,</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Pat</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><a href="https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Patricia_McArdle"><font face="BookmanOldStyle" style="font-size: 14px;">Patricia McArdle</font></a></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle" style="font-size: 14px;">Author, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/06/04/136928898/farishta-afghan-fiction-from-the-foreign-service">Farishta</a>, a novel about Afghanistan<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_tLie5msnr6QwhEWPZIzIg/videos?view=0&sort=p">Videographer</a> renewable energy<br>Member Global Advisory Council, <a href="https://www.solarcookers.org/about/team/sci-global-advisor-council/patricia-mcardle">Solar Cookers International</a><br>Board of Advisors, <a href="http://www.she-inc.org/?page_id=293">Solar Household Energy</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">p.s. My you tube channel features many videos on fuel efficient cooking methods including: </font></div><div><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"><br></span></div><div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdO_HaSqtQ">Heat Retention Cooking</a> </font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_lA4I9__aI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_lA4I9__aI</a>. (I filmed this short video at a solar cooking conference in Sacramento. It was in response to an anti-solar ‘expert” who frequently dismissed solar cookers as useless.)</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"> This video </font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn04j_0pdQ&t=25s" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn04j_0pdQ&t=25s</a><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"> is an interview I gave to USAID on integrated cooking.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">My very first two videos were filmed 15 years ago in Mexico when I was invited to join a Rotary group of doctors who were setting up a health clinic in a remote part of the country. They wanted demonstrations on how to make and use solar cookers, retained heat containers and fuel efficient stoves. My fellow instructor was the well known biomass stove designer, Larry Winiarski, whom I filmed demonstrating the construction of a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMR2ANIZ7E" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">16 brick rocket stove</a><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"> and a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO-vPyCShLg" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">tin can rocket stove</a><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">. </span></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="BookmanOldStyle">On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 4:05?PM Christina Espinosa <<br><a href="mailto:c_espinosa1@u.pacific.edu">c_espinosa1@u.pacific.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></font><blockquote type="cite"><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Hi Listserv!<br><br>I have a team in Egypt working on a quick manufacturing design to be<br>able to send into our cooking partners in Gaza ASAP. Rules are strict<br>on what gets let in and there is almost no fuel inside Gaza for cooking.<br>They currently have a pellet design with a fan. I was hoping that someone<br>might be willing to jump on a call with me or the team there ASAP to try<br>and troubleshoot some problems they have in the design. This is where they<br>are at now. But they need to be able to make these ASAP and all of the<br>large manufacturers have long turn arounds and shipping costs.<br><br>Please let me know if anyone would be able to help.<br><br>You can email me directly at <a href="mailto:Christina@wck.org">Christina@wck.org</a><br><br>Best,<br><br>Christina<br>Director of Clean Cooking<br>World Central Kitchen</font><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></body></html>