...this is a developing list to enable you to find NoGMO and Solar Cooking friends in your community....if you are one of these resources, know of some or want to be listed as interested, contact smart shelter via email on our home page....

north fork

Sam Brown&Tara Miller(Paonia)
first encountered solar cookers at the 1996 grand mesa rainbow gathering through the cardboard box cookers of the authour of solar fire (??titile). They bought a Sun Oven, thinking it was a toy and discovered it was a legitimate way to cook. Sam took the design and converted it to an instruction manual for build-it-yourselfers to make a home made model from locally available conventional materials for around $30 (vs $250 for the sun oven) As of Feb 02, they report having built 60 cookers through their workshops and are available if you have a group to do more workshops or you can sign up on their list to be contacted when another is available. For the past 6 years they have journeyed to an island in Lake Titicaca Peru where they have built another 40 solar cookers with the natives there along with bringing other solar technologies to this fuel-denuded region and economy.
Sam And Tara were awarded the Smart Shelter award for Service to the Community and Environment during the launching of the "Sol Solutions 2002" program on KVNF on Feb 25th, 2002. They cook on both their home made and Sun Oven cookers on a daily basis winter and summer and were leaving for yet another sojourn to Peru the day after they recieved their award.

roaring fork

Barb Chamblis (Carbondale)
Started her experience with sun energy food preparation in 1976 in Grand Junction as part of a renewable energy grant which piloted use of solar food driers. The systems added bonnet reflectors developing heats sufficient to cook. She has witnessed first hand the recent developments of the manufactured high-tech marketable units such as the Sun Oven, which she recieved as a gift a few years ago and uses consistently, especially in the summer to avoid overheating her house. She places it in the driveway and is cooking away when here counciling and conflictresolution clients visit her home office...applying the one-on-one marketing technique which is so effective in spreading sustainable living technology.
Barb has worked for years with Solar Energy International in Carbondale, where she now lives with their efforts in renewable energy advocacy. She is currently working on plans to build a home in the Paonia area. She recently recieved her Phd. in Peace.

Solar Energy International (Carbondale)
Easily the pioneers regionally in solar cooking...25 year track record...sponsor the Carbondale 4th of July solar barbeques, have gigantic (trailer hitch) sun barbeques, offer weekend solar cooking workshops...see the resource list and calendar with this program for contact info and events.

montrose

Lana Hansen (Montrose) (260-2564) <lana@smartshelter.com>
Lana is currently in apprenticeship with the Smart Shelter Network in the areas of Natural Lifestyles and Natural building. She is a career healthcare providor, currently working part time with natural end of life service with Hospice. She has recently acquired a small travel trailer which she is converting to a micro-living environment similair to the Smart Shelter prototype Nomad Project..
Lana is development director part time for Smart Shelter and is dedicating her time for the year 2002 exclusively to the Sol-Solutions 2002 initiative to research, advocate, educate and promote solar cooking, availability of solar cookers through workshops, retail sales points, energy providers, etc as well as assembling a regional network and resource guilde for organic retail food stores, farmers markets and organic greenhouses and growers
If you're interested in helping with this innitiative or have information, background and experience, please contact her.

grand junction

ridgway/ouray

Alternative Energy Enterprises

telluride

Tomtem Institute

norwood/west end

Tomten Institute

crested butte/gunnison

Nancy Wicks

crestone