by Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic | Jul 25, 2026 | North America, Our Blog, United States
This week, Janice and I attended the conference of the Professional Recyclers’ Organization of Pennsylvania (PROP) in Lancaster, PA. We met some major players in Pennsylvania’s recycling industry, including folks who work in engineering, waste audits,...
by Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic | Jul 17, 2026 | Our Blog, Uncategorized
At our Solar C³ITIES summer 2026 hybrid board meeting, co-founder and outgoing executive director Janice Kelsey “passes the torch” to incoming executive director Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic. On Sunday, July 12, we held a quarterly meeting of the...
by Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic | Jul 10, 2026 | Home Biodigester, North America, Our Blog, Our Projects, United States
In preparation for last month’s digester installation at the Mujeres en Movimiento community garden in Queens, I collected 8 gallons of digestate from my home biodigester. This digestate is full of the methanogenic microbes that produce biogas, so it can...
by Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic | Jul 3, 2026 | North America, Our Blog, Our Projects, United States
On Saturday, June 27, I traveled from Philadelphia to New York City to install a 55-gallon barrel biodigester at a community garden in Queens. We were invited by María Paz Ordoñez, an activist whose passion is teaching immigrant communities about sustainability...
by Jonathan Sidharta Leibovic | Jun 26, 2026 | North America, Our Blog, Our Projects, United States
This weekend, I will be installing a 55-gallon biodigester at a community garden in New York City. Specifically, we’ll be in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, at the community orchard of Mujeres en Movimiento. This will be my first time presenting a...
