by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 26, 2014 Simon, the grandfather of Sakhiwe Songhe who helped us build the digester at Sundowner’s Backpackers Lodge, lives on a farm in Swaziland outside Manzini where he has fruit orchards and keeps cattle, geese, and chickens. It is here that...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 24, 2014 Dr. T.H. Culhane, Rohit Fenn, and Amit Fenn traveled to Swaziland to work with Science in Action winners Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela. Rohit is a young man from India who designed a more efficient toilet and Amit is an evolutionary biologist...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
August 17, 2014 During the sustainability conference at Principia College we built a functioning mini digester out of paint buckets. It really works and not only teaches the principles but gives a few minutes of daily gas!...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | North America, Our Projects
August 16, 2014 On a trip to Mexico, Rotoplas engineers surprised Culhane with a Solar CITIES-style modified ARTI digester. They had built the digester in anticipation of his visit. The digester included “microbial motels” to increase surface area....
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 7, 2014 A couple of years ago a young man named Jorma Gorns from the Gymnasium Altenholz in Kiel, northern Germany, wrote Solar CITIES a letter asking if it would be possible to intern with us on some project around the world. A year later he took the...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Our Projects, South America
August 6, 2014 Basic training opportunities in small scale biogas build confidence and familiarity with biogas before launching into a larger community-size builds. Our Facebook group “Solar CITIES Biogas Innoventors and Practitioners” encourages people...
