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Dear Solar Friends 💛
This summer is going to be very hot in many places with lots of risks for the forests and the people. It’s time to embrace the change and equip yourself with a sustainable and local energy solution that can preserve the environment and make you more autonomous. And as you know, Lytefire is one of them.
We are extremely happy to share with you recent important achievements.
💛 We are now selling the Lytefire 5 construction manual (Lytefire solar concentrator + oven) for DIY’ers. Meaning that with a good set of tools, you and builder friends can build your own super powerful oven in about 2 weeks.
↓↓ Check the offer with a 30% discount to get your plans now! ↓↓
💛 After a decade of work with NGOs, we are now directly selling Lytefire to people thanks to our great commercial partners and licensees. Check your location to see if a Lytefire solution is available near you. If that’s not the case yet, please join a waiting list as it won’t be long before manufactured Lytefire’s can be available everywhere!
→ Check Lytefire’s availability and explore the new website (EN/FR).
💛 If you’re interested to manufacture and commercialize Lytefire in your country, a traditional Commercial License, or an Artisan Micro-License for limited local production are now available to you. Join us to bring Lytefire to people everywhere and reinforce local production !
💛 Pour nos fans francophones, si vous l’avez pas dĂ©jĂ , c’est le moment de commander le livre d’Arnaud. Que vous soyez boulangers ou pas, ce livre propose la vision et l’expĂ©rience d’un homme courageux, qui a forgĂ© ses rĂ©ponses Ă la question essentielle de son rĂ´le dans la sociĂ©tĂ© et sa façon de contribuer Ă un monde auquel il croit. C’est un petit livre inspirant, profond et motivant Ă faire largement circuler !
→ Commandez La Boulangerie Solaire
Thank you for your time. Take care and have a great summer.
💛
This newsletter is meant to inform you about the spread of Lytefire solar thermal solutions and the educational programs. If you do not wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe below. Your newsletter data is not used for anything other than receiving this newsletter. © 2023 Solar Fire Concentration Oy - P6 Åkerlundinkatu 8 - 33100 Tampere, Finland.
Dear Solar Friends 💛
We are very grateful for the warm welcome you gave to the new website presenting our new offers and services. Thanks to you, we are finally transitioning from working only with NGOs to work with everyone.
Our dream is now real.
7 years ago we were doing a first crowdfunding and saying: “It’s about local people building what they need to empower their community” (video), and Will was already pitching the hub where all users could share on forums.
Today everyone can access a Lytefire anywhere and 261 people are on the hub.
Lytefire 4 and 5 can be built in your garden or for your community with one of the construction guides. Lytefire 5 Artisan can be purchased from a local artisan who got a Micro-Licence from us. Lytefire 5 Pro can be shipped to any humanitarian programs, farms, professional bakeries or local associations in Africa thanks to our solid and growing cooperation with Metco, our partner in Kenya. For NGO’s, our educational packages are still available. Lytefire 5 Deluxe with trailer and Lytefire 11 Deluxe are perfectly adapted to EU markets and regulations, and made with dedication by CPM Industries, our long lasting French partner in this adventure.
Discover the options available in your country - Check the Shop!
Before summer, the co-pilots of the Lytefire ship had the joy of receiving confirmation of NEFCO (the Nordic Green Bank)’s financial support. This will allow more stable working conditions to continue the good work with Muriel, Joan, Sam, Allen, Martin, Helena, Susanne, Will and all the others joining the journey.
And we’re now happy to present to you some of the most active users of Lytefire:
🔶 Michel created a “fake” coffee based on local beans in West France. His micro-company is called Lug, named after the Celtic sun deity. Michel is also running a great association and we’ll present his educational actions later on.
🔶 Joan firmly believes in the impact of Lytefire. Two years ago she started the Solar Fire Bakery in Kenya and many of you have supported through our 2d crowdfunding campaign. She now has a stable basis of regular clients.
🔶 Didier runs l’Atelier BĂ©lĂ©nos in France. He is roasting seeds and creates energy bars. For this innovative spirit, he recently won the local “Eco-DĂ©fis” (Eco-Challenges) from the Chambre des MĂ©tiers et de l’Artisanat.
🔶 Prudence is based in Uganda. She used to be a trainee from a project with Plan International. With friends, she’s running the Solar Bakery Nebbi with great success.
🔶 In East France, GrĂ©goire is an active member of the Low Tech Lab. He took an Artisan Micro-License with us and is now starting to produce Lytefire locally for his clients.
🔶 Near the Pyrenees mountains, Quentin recently created Aurinko (meaning “Sun” in Finnish). He specialized in solar roasted seeds.
🔶 In East France again, Romain Zamboni got inspired by Lytefire (and many other things obviously) to create HĂ©lie, a solar micro-brewery. It just opened a few days ago!
🔶 Bread, roasted seeds and “bean to bar” chocolate, that’s what Bruzhun (meaning “crumbs’’ in the Breton language) is starting to offer with the Lytefire Deluxe. Enora just got her solar oven this summer.
🔶 Du Soleil et des Graines is based in France and they have been the very first to follow NeoLoco’s model. The family is offering a great set of sweet and salted roasted seeds products. They also organize training days at their place.
🔶 In France, CĂ©line is offering roasted seeds, herbs salt, crumbs for deep fry recipes and also energy bars, all prepared with direct solar heat. Check her site SolĂ© B’Rayon.
🔶 Noblessence, a small French carpentry company, tested wooden burnt cladding with Lytefire. Lots of enthusiasm around that!
All these entrepreneurs are courageous pioneers who have been inspired by Arnaud Cretot, who developed his solar bakery NeoLoco around the possibilities offered by Lytefire. We are grateful to all of them for their trust and courage, and we thank them for everything they do to make this world a better place. Now that we are more stable, we will progressively improve and present them all in a more dynamic way on our site to inspire more and more entrepreneurs.
Aurinko’s presentation
💛 We are updating our site and adding products on a regular basis. Check your location to see if a Lytefire solution is available near you. If that’s not the case yet, please join a waiting list as it won’t be long before manufactured Lytefires can be available everywhere!
💛 Next time we will also present Vincent, Catherine, and Denis, who recently got their solar oven, as well as 3 associations working with Lytefire and a project in Madagascar. And meanwhile, hopefully Hashimu and Allen will also be able to receive theirs in Tanzania and in Uganda.
💛 If you’re interested to manufacture and commercialize Lytefire in your country, a traditional Commercial License, and an Artisan Micro-License for limited local production, are available to you. Join us to bring Lytefire to people everywhere and reinforce local production !
💛 The community of builders and users is growing. We are still selling the Lytefire 5 construction manual (Lytefire solar concentrator + oven) for DIYers with a good discount in order to allow many to get theirs hands on it and build theirs for next Summer.
↓↓ Check the offer with a 30% discount to get your plans now! ↓↓
💛 Pour nos amis.es francophones, si vous l’avez pas dĂ©jĂ , c’est toujours le moment de commander le livre d’Arnaud. Que vous soyez boulangers ou pas, ce livre propose la vision et l’expĂ©rience d’un homme courageux, qui a forgĂ© ses rĂ©ponses Ă la question essentielle de son rĂ´le dans la sociĂ©tĂ© et sa façon de contribuer Ă un monde auquel il croit. C’est un petit livre inspirant, profond et motivant Ă faire circuler largement !
→ Commandez La Boulangerie Solaire
Thank you for reading. Take care and have a great start of autumn (or spring in the South)
Maria Gordon Illustrations (merci Florence)
💛
This newsletter is meant to inform you about the spread of Lytefire solar thermal solutions and the educational programs. If you do not wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe below. Your newsletter data is not used for anything other than receiving this newsletter. © 2023 Solar Fire Concentration Oy - P6 Åkerlundinkatu 8 - 33100 Tampere, Finland.
Dear Solar Friends 💛
We are very grateful for the warm welcome you gave to the new website presenting our new offers and services. Thanks to you, we are finally transitioning from working only with NGOs to work with everyone.
Our dream is now real.
7 years ago we were doing a first crowdfunding and saying: “It’s about local people building what they need to empower their community” (video), and Will was already pitching the hub where all users could share on forums.
Today everyone can access a Lytefire anywhere and 261 people are on the hub.
Lytefire 4 and 5 can be built in your garden or for your community with one of the construction guides. Lytefire 5 Artisan can be purchased from a local artisan who got a Micro-Licence from us. Lytefire 5 Pro can be shipped to any humanitarian programs, farms, professional bakeries or local associations in Africa thanks to our solid and growing cooperation with Metco, our partner in Kenya. For NGO’s, our educational packages are still available. Lytefire 5 Deluxe with trailer and Lytefire 11 Deluxe are perfectly adapted to EU markets and regulations, and made with dedication by CPM Industries, our long lasting French partner in this adventure.
Discover the options available in your country - Check the Shop!
Before summer, the co-pilots of the Lytefire ship had the joy of receiving confirmation of NEFCO (the Nordic Green Bank)’s financial support. This will allow more stable working conditions to continue the good work with Muriel, Joan, Sam, Allen, Martin, Helena, Susanne, Will and all the others joining the journey.
And we’re now happy to present to you some of the most active users of Lytefire:
🔶 Michel created a “fake” coffee based on local beans in West France. His micro-company is called Lug, named after the Celtic sun deity. Michel is also running a great association and we’ll present his educational actions later on.
🔶 Joan firmly believes in the impact of Lytefire. Two years ago she started the Solar Fire Bakery in Kenya and many of you have supported through our 2d crowdfunding campaign. She now has a stable basis of regular clients.
🔶 Didier runs l’Atelier BĂ©lĂ©nos in France. He is roasting seeds and creates energy bars. For this innovative spirit, he recently won the local “Eco-DĂ©fis” (Eco-Challenges) from the Chambre des MĂ©tiers et de l’Artisanat.
🔶 Prudence is based in Uganda. She used to be a trainee from a project with Plan International. With friends, she’s running the Solar Bakery Nebbi with great success.
🔶 In East France, GrĂ©goire is an active member of the Low Tech Lab. He took an Artisan Micro-License with us and is now starting to produce Lytefire locally for his clients.
🔶 Near the Pyrenees mountains, Quentin recently created Aurinko (meaning “Sun” in Finnish). He specialized in solar roasted seeds.
🔶 In East France again, Romain Zamboni got inspired by Lytefire (and many other things obviously) to create HĂ©lie, a solar micro-brewery. It just opened a few days ago!
🔶 Bread, roasted seeds and “bean to bar” chocolate, that’s what Bruzhun (meaning “crumbs’’ in the Breton language) is starting to offer with the Lytefire Deluxe. Enora just got her solar oven this summer.
🔶 Du Soleil et des Graines is based in France and they have been the very first to follow NeoLoco’s model. The family is offering a great set of sweet and salted roasted seeds products. They also organize training days at their place.
🔶 In France, CĂ©line is offering roasted seeds, herbs salt, crumbs for deep fry recipes and also energy bars, all prepared with direct solar heat. Check her site SolĂ© B’Rayon.
🔶 Noblessence, a small French carpentry company, tested wooden burnt cladding with Lytefire. Lots of enthusiasm around that!
All these entrepreneurs are courageous pioneers who have been inspired by Arnaud Cretot, who developed his solar bakery NeoLoco around the possibilities offered by Lytefire. We are grateful to all of them for their trust and courage, and we thank them for everything they do to make this world a better place. Now that we are more stable, we will progressively improve and present them all in a more dynamic way on our site to inspire more and more entrepreneurs.
Aurinko’s presentation
💛 We are updating our site and adding products on a regular basis. Check your location to see if a Lytefire solution is available near you. If that’s not the case yet, please join a waiting list as it won’t be long before manufactured Lytefires can be available everywhere!
💛 Next time we will also present Vincent, Catherine, and Denis, who recently got their solar oven, as well as 3 associations working with Lytefire and a project in Madagascar. And meanwhile, hopefully Hashimu and Allen will also be able to receive theirs in Tanzania and in Uganda.
💛 If you’re interested to manufacture and commercialize Lytefire in your country, a traditional Commercial License, and an Artisan Micro-License for limited local production, are available to you. Join us to bring Lytefire to people everywhere and reinforce local production !
💛 The community of builders and users is growing. We are still selling the Lytefire 5 construction manual (Lytefire solar concentrator + oven) for DIYers with a good discount in order to allow many to get theirs hands on it and build theirs for next Summer.
↓↓ Check the offer with a 30% discount to get your plans now! ↓↓
💛 Pour nos amis.es francophones, si vous l’avez pas dĂ©jĂ , c’est toujours le moment de commander le livre d’Arnaud. Que vous soyez boulangers ou pas, ce livre propose la vision et l’expĂ©rience d’un homme courageux, qui a forgĂ© ses rĂ©ponses Ă la question essentielle de son rĂ´le dans la sociĂ©tĂ© et sa façon de contribuer Ă un monde auquel il croit. C’est un petit livre inspirant, profond et motivant Ă faire circuler largement !
→ Commandez La Boulangerie Solaire
Thank you for reading. Take care and have a great start of autumn (or spring in the South)
Maria Gordon Illustrations (merci Florence)
💛
This newsletter is meant to inform you about the spread of Lytefire solar thermal solutions and the educational programs. If you do not wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe below. Your newsletter data is not used for anything other than receiving this newsletter. © 2023 Solar Fire Concentration Oy - P6 Åkerlundinkatu 8 - 33100 Tampere, Finland.
(en français plus bas)
Dear Solar Friends 💛
We hope you’re good!
This is a short newsletter to invite you to discover the growing number of Lytefire users.
🔶 If you’re following us on the social networks LinkedIn, Instagram or Facebook, you have probably noticed that we recently started to share more. With mini-series about entrepreneurs, our core mission and by simply sharing information, we now want to occupy these spaces and make all our voices heard. If you like what we do, feel free to share, like, and follow these posts. There is more to come!
We’re happy to be able to highlight Lytefire’s users better. As we go, we hope to present more and more of them to you. We believe that nothing can beat the strength of passionate people inspiring others to engage in a professional transformation.
And that’s what all the Lytefire users are doing: https://lytefire.com/users
🔶 Last summer, in the French Pyrenees, at a 1700 meter altitude, Quentin Mercier and Caroline Penacq created Aurinko (meaning “Sun” in Finnish) with a Lytefire Deluxe Oven and Roaster. They have since then specialized in solar roasted seeds that they are selling in local marketplaces and restaurants.
They have just started a crowdfunding campaign to develop new solar roasted products, create educational workshops and start an online shop. They need everybody’s support to grow so do not hesitate to join and to spread the word widely. Thank you!
💛 Support AURINKO here (French platform)💛
Cher Amis Solaires 💛
On espère que vous allez tous bien et on a conçu cette brève lettre d’infos pour vous faire découvrir plus d’utilisateurs de la Lytefire.
🔶 L’Ă©tĂ© dernier, dans les PyrĂ©nĂ©es, Ă 1700 m d’altitude dans la Cerdagne, Quentin Mercier et Caroline Penacq ont crĂ©Ă© leur petite entreprise Aurinko («Soleil» en finnois) avec une Lytefire Deluxe. Ils se sont depuis spĂ©cialisĂ©s dans les graines solaires torrĂ©fiĂ©es qu’ils vendent sur les marchĂ©s et aux restaurants locaux.
La presse commence à s’intéresser à leur travail. Lisez ici l’article ou écoutez l’émission de France Bleue.
Caroline et Quentin viennent de lancer une campagne de financement participatif pour dĂ©velopper de nouveaux produits torrĂ©fiĂ©s Ă l’Ă©nergie solaire, crĂ©er des ateliers pĂ©dagogiques et lancer une boutique en ligne. Ils ont besoin du soutien de tous pour grandir, alors n’hĂ©sitez pas Ă participer et Ă faire passer le message largement. Merci d’avance !
💛 Soutenez ici AURINKO sur Miimosa💛
🔶 Si vous suivez Lytefire sur les rĂ©seaux sociaux LinkedIn, Instagram et Facebook, vous avez probablement remarquĂ© que nous avons rĂ©cemment commencĂ© Ă partager beaucoup plus. Mini-sĂ©ries sur les entrepreneurs, notre mission de cĹ“ur ou simple partage d’informations, nous souhaitons dĂ©sormais occuper ces espaces et faire entendre toutes nos voix. Si ce que nous faisons vous plaĂ®t, n’hĂ©sitez pas Ă partager, liker, suivre ces contenus.
Nous sommes vraiment heureux de pouvoir mieux mettre en avant les utilisateurs de la Lytefire. Au fur et à mesure de nos avancées, nous espérons vous les présenter de plus en plus. Nous pensons que rien ne vaut l’exemple concret de personnes inspirées qui diffusent courage et positivité autour d’eux.
Et c’est ce que font les utilisateurs de la Lytefire (traduction française à venir) : https://lytefire.com/users
🔶 Enfin, si vous l’avez pas dĂ©jĂ , c’est toujours le moment de commander le livre d’Arnaud et c’est mĂŞme une excellente idĂ©e de lecture pour NoĂ«l. Que vous soyez boulangers ou pas, ce livre propose la vision et l’expĂ©rience d’un homme courageux, qui a forgĂ© ses rĂ©ponses Ă la question essentielle de son rĂ´le dans la sociĂ©tĂ© et sa façon de contribuer Ă un monde auquel il croit. Un petit livre inspirant, profond et motivant Ă faire circuler largement !
→ Commandez La Boulangerie Solaire
This newsletter is meant to inform you about the spread of Lytefire solar thermal solutions and the educational programs. If you do not wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe below. Your newsletter data is not used for anything other than receiving this newsletter. © 2023 Solar Fire Concentration Oy - P6 Åkerlundinkatu 8 - 33100 Tampere, Finland.
(en français plus bas)
Dear Solar Friends 💛
It’s us again because it’s soon Christmas and some of you might be interested in ordering nice solar products. We are happy to highlight Lydiane Tirel’s solar roasted seeds. She is running Du Soleil et des Graines in France and that is why the newsletter continues only in French below.
Lydiane Tirel préparant ses délicieuses gourmandises
🔶 Alors qu’elle cherchait un projet professionnel bien alignĂ© avec ses valeurs, c’est en 2021 que Lydiane a rencontrĂ© Arnaud (le fameux boulanger solaire normand). Le modèle de NeoLoco crĂ©Ă© par Arnaud a tellement rĂ©sonnĂ© qu’elle a investi dans l’un des tous premiers fours solaires Lytefire Deluxe sorti de l’usine de CPM en Normandie. Et lĂ , l’aventure a commencĂ©.
Pionnière dans sa rĂ©gion de la Loire, Ă Bourg Argental, Ă deux pas de l’Ardèche et de la Haute-Loire, elle a depuis torrĂ©fiĂ© des tonnes de graines pour crĂ©er de savoureux produits labellisĂ©s Agriculture Biologique. Pour se faire connaĂ®tre, elle a sillonnĂ© marchĂ©s et festivals pour prĂ©senter la torrĂ©faction solaire. Aujourd’hui, elle propose Ă©galement des journĂ©es d’information avec sa Lytefire.
La torréfaction est très intéressante parce qu’elle permet une plus longue conservation des aliments et qu’elle réhausse les arômes des graines et des noix. Quand, en plus on sait que ces délices sont torréfiés sans émettre une miette de CO² on se sent bien tout de suite, non ?
Travaillant le plus possible avec des fournisseurs locaux, Lydiane a également des emballages recyclables fabriqués dans la région, tout comme le délicieux miel nécessaire à ses préparations.
A propos, connaissez-vous le sobacha ? C’est une infusion de sarrasin grillé pleine de bienfaits. Découvrez-la ici et passez votre commande avant le 18 novembre pour une livraison assurée pour les Fêtes.
💛Passez vos commandes Ă Lydiane💛
Barres d’énergie, apéritif, préparations croustillantes pour les salades, sobacha…
Chez Du Soleil et des Graines, tout est torréfié à l’énergie solaire !
🔶 Si la Loire est trop Ă©loignĂ©e pour votre commande de NoĂ«l, plein de produits solaires gourmands rĂ©alisĂ©s avec des Lytefire sont disponibles en Normandie, en VendĂ©e, en Ille-et-Vilaine, en Bretagne, dans les PyrĂ©nĂ©es, dans la DrĂ´me. Consultez la page qui prĂ©sente d’autres artisans solaires ici (elle est en anglais pour le moment mais tous leurs sites sont en français).
Vos commandes soutiennent directement ces modèles Ă©conomiques locaux basĂ©s sur un mix Ă©nergĂ©tique très peu polluant. Soutenir ces artisans, c’est soutenir vos envies de changement tout en partageant avec vos proches autour de produits extra ! 💛 Merci 💛
This newsletter is meant to inform you about the spread of Lytefire solar thermal solutions and the educational programs. If you do not wish to receive it, you can unsubscribe below. Your newsletter data is not used for anything other than receiving this newsletter. © 2023 Solar Fire Concentration Oy - P6 Åkerlundinkatu 8 - 33100 Tampere, Finland.
