title: Community Cooker
text: # 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.
  
  