Community Cooker
# Community Cooker

The Community Cooker (Kiswahili translation on "Jiko ya Jamii") is a stove designed to produce safe, clean, and cheap energy for cooking from rubbish. Jim Archer invented the Community Cooker, the Chairman of Planning Systems Services Ltd. , to address the accumulation of rubbish throughout Kibera while providing relief to the deforestation and groundwater pollution.

## History and development

* 1990: Jim Archer recognized the increasing environmental problem around Kenya
* 2008: First Community Cooker prototype completed
* 2010: Community Cooker passed emission test and reached EPA standard
* November 2010: Community Cooker Foundation established

## News and recognition

* Winner of the British Expertise International Awards 2011-12 Environmental Impact Award
* CNN covered Community Cooker turning rubbish into fuel in 2011
* Community Cooker was exhibited at the Smithsonian Cooper‐Hewitt National Design Museum "Design with the Other 90%: Cities" exhibition
* Gemini News Service conducted an in-depth report on Community Cooker in 2011

## The Community Cooker in 2012-2014

### February 2012

The Community Cooker wins the WORLD DESIGN IMPACT PRIZE, sponsored by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID)

### July 26, 2012

The Community Cooker is short-listed for the FT/CITI Urban Ingenuity award.

### July 27, 2012

Together with the University of Nairobi's Architecture Department, PLANNING represented Kenya in "Running Ahead: Vitalizing Urban Areas and Communities" during the London 2012 Olympics in East Thames, 29-35 West Ham Lane, Stratford.

### September 2012

Orders for two community cookers for Dadaab Refugee Camp from the United Nations

### November 2012

Shortlist for the ICON "Most Socially Responsible Design" award.

### December 2012

On December 5, in New York, the Community Cooker is adjudicated as the winner of the FT/Citi Urban Ingenuity: Ideas in Action Energy Award (with the Metropolitan Government of Tokyo in second place) and also, by a unanimous vote of the jury, the Community Cooker is given the Overall Global INGENUITY LEADER Award. On December 19, the Community Cooker is short-listed for the 2013 FT ArcelorMittal "Boldness in Business" Award in their Corporate Responsibility/Environment category. To be adjudicated in March 2013.

