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. (PLANNING), to address the accumulation of rubbish throughout Kibera while providing relief to the deforestation and groundwater pollution.
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.