The HotPot is manufactured only in Mexico by a private business, in cooperation with the Fondo Mexicano Para La Conservación de la Naturaleza, a non-profit. The manufacturer sells the “fully loaded” HotPot package for standard commercial distribution in the U.S. and Mexico, and on a more economical basis for bulk developing world sales, via Solar Household Energy, Inc. Both organizations are actively developing a variety of strategies to make the HotPot available to developing world consumers at a price they can afford. Sustainable Rural Life is the new face of the Hot Pot initiative that was launched by the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature in 2003.