Community Cooker


The Community Cooker is a stove designed to produce safe, clean and cheap energy for cooking from rubbish. The Community Cooker was invented by Jim Archer, the Chairman of to address the accumulation of rubbish throughout Kibera, while providing relief to the deforestation and ground water pollution.

History and development

February 2012

The Community Cooker wins the ,
sponsored by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design

July 26, 2012

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

July 27, 2012

PLANNING together with the University of Nairobi's Architecture Department 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 2 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 and also, by 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.