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...
June 5, 2026 Futurist Farms sits on a half-acre (1/4 hectare) plot in the Poplar neighborhood of North Philadelphia. It’s owned and operated by Dimka Braswell and Bryce Rowe, two Black urban farmers who are combining time-honored agricultural practices with...
Friday, May 29, 2026 The business of biogas is booming! In the last 12 years, the USA has added over 800 new large-scale biogas capturing facilities at landfills, dairy farms, wastewater treatment plants, and even a few stand-alone food waste facilities. The American...
May 20, 2026 This week, I am in Detroit, Michigan, USA for the 2026 conference of the American Biogas Council (ABC). The ABC is a trade association that advocates for increasing the supply, demand, and quality of biogas across US industries and policies. I’ve...
