<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;"><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Hi Christina,</font><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Kudos to WCK for your efforts to provide food to the people of Gaza and to WCK's current efforts to also provide them with the means to cook raw food using biomass stoves. </font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Given the fact that: </font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">1. </font><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">Gaza is located in the sun belt </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9568520/" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">with more than 300 sunny days per year </a><span style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">and an average of 8 hours of daily brightness</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="BookmanOldStyle">”; </font></span></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">2. The forests in Gaza cover only <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">0.55%</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"> of the Gaza Strip...</span></font></span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124" face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><br></span></font></span></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">I urge you to consider introducing the </font></span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn04j_0pdQ&t=25s"><font color="#202124"></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">integrated solar cooking method</span></a><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(4, 51, 255);"> </span></span></font><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">which combines the use of: </font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><li><font face="BookmanOldStyle">An appropriate <a href="https://www.appropedia.org/Solar_cooker" title="Solar cooker" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">solar cooker</a> model whenever the sun is shining;</font></li><li><font face="BookmanOldStyle">A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHdO_HaSqtQ"></a><a href="https://www.appropedia.org/Retained_heat_cooker" title="Retained heat cooker" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">retained heat cooker</a> (hay basket or fireless cooker) to keep solar cooked food piping hot for hours or to allow a cook to bring a pot of food to a boil for 15 minutes, then extinguish the fire and let the food simmer for two or three more house in a retained heat container using no fuel at all. </font></li><li><font face="BookmanOldStyle">An <a href="https://www.appropedia.org/Improved_cookstove" class="mw-redirect" title="Improved cookstove" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); text-decoration: none;">improved cookstove</a> (i.e. fuel efficient biomass cook stove) for use when there is not sufficient sunshine.</font></li></ol></div><div><br></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">There are three basic types of solar cookers:</font></span></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">1. Light weight fold up, but very durable panel cookers like the </font></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmMhCq5Y0Ig">Haines solar cooker</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">, which can cook food at above 300F/150C on any sunny day. </font></span></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">It can also boil water and keep it simmering for hours using no fuel at all. Haines solar cookers are being used in: </font></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kenya, Uganda, Haiti, Gambia, Chad, Ecuador, Mexico and the U.S. The designer and manufacturer, Roger Haines lives in Del Mar California and is a retired U.S.Department of Justice lawyer.</span></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124"><br></font></span></font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">2. Parabolic solar cookers like the ones </font></span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVDdHH9TyU">Jose Andres took to Haiti</a>. <font face="BookmanOldStyle"><a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/solarcooking/images/c/c2/Scr_may14.pdf/revision/latest?cb=20140602164023">Jose Andres introduced solar cookers to the Haitian people in 2010</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">. </font></span></font><font color="#202124" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He brought </span></font><a href="https://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-11-10/food-and-haitis-path-recovery/" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">solar parabolic cookers</a><font color="#202124" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> after their devastating earthquake and </span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVDdHH9TyU" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;">taught the Haitians how to cook with sunshine.</a><font color="#202124" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><div><font color="#202124" style="font-family: BookmanOldStyle;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>3. <a href="https://inhabitat.com/palestinian-man-overcomes-gaza-energy-cuts-with-affordable-diy-solar-ovens/">Box solar cookers</a> like the ones already being built in Gaza</div><div><br></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">Several years ago, a </font></span><a href="https://themedialine.org/people/displaced-women-in-yemen-become-entrepreneurs/">group of women in war torn Yemen</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">, who were no longer able to buy bottled cooking gas, did their own </font></span><a href="https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Integrated_Cooking_Method">research on fuel efficient cooking methods</a>. They<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124"> discovered </font></span></font><a href="https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Integrated_Cooking_Method">integrated cooking</a> and <font face="BookmanOldStyle"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#202124">are making and distributing these three devices and teaching Yemeni women how to combine their use for maximum fuel savings: </font></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">Mr. <span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Khaled Bashir, who lives in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip, has been for the past few years </span><a href="https://inhabitat.com/palestinian-man-overcomes-gaza-energy-cuts-with-affordable-diy-solar-ovens/">building and selling solar box cookers to take advantage of Gaza’s abundant sunshine that not even a blockade can disrupt.</a> Since he’s already doing this instead of burning lumber in cooking fires on sunny days, why not help Mr. Bashir turn that lumber into thousands of solar box cookers for his neighbors?</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div>. .. </div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle">A leading influencer in the biomass stove community, </font><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-still-51267176/">Dean Still, Director of Aprovecho Research Center in Oregon</a><font face="BookmanOldStyle">, published a manual almost 20 years ago, which describes the integrated cooking method and provides instructions on building and using each of the necessary devices.</font></div><div><font face="BookmanOldStyle"><br></font></div><div></div></body></html>