On Sunday, July 12, we held a quarterly meeting of the Solar C³ITIES Board of Directors. Some of these directors have been serving on the organization’s board since its founding in 2014, like Jody Spangler, Janice Kelsey, and Dr. T. H. Culhane. For...
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...
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...
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...
This week, Janice and I traveled to Maryland to visit Pat and Bill, a retired couple who live part-time in a tiny house that Bill built on top of a trailer bed. Solar CITIES had installed a biodigester for them over a year ago, but Pat and Bill haven’t used the...
There are many ways to store biogas after it is produced. The biodigester itself can store some gas, but often we want to be able to store excess gas for later use or longer cooking times. Also, storing biogas within the biodigester itself can raise air...
