by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
June 14, 2011 As part of the Blackstone Ranch/National Geographic Innovation Challenge Grant, Culhane returned to Kenya and built digesters at the school of fellow Nat Geo Emerging Explorer Kakenya Ntaiya.
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
June 14, 2011 Working in partnership with Simama e.V. we built a Solar CITIES enhanced ARTI digester at the Mukuru Arts Academy in Mukuru Slum, Nairobi in 2010. Simama is a German association with a mission of development through the arts. We worked with Mink Noordam...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 14, 2010 The Selinda system was sized to accommodate the kitchen waste from a maximum of 16 guests eating four meals a day. Culhane spent two days during a period of full occupancy grinding the waste generated through meal preparation and plate scrapings...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 14, 2010 Yube Boitumelo Siyangaphi, Joseph Kabimba and Kebonyemang Mashabe and I have built a three-stage biodigestor at the worker’s camp at CSU base camp at Selinda Wildlife Reserve in Botswana. It consists of a fiberglass-sealed 1,000-liter horizontal...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 14, 2010 As part of the Blackstone Ranch/National Geographic Innovation Challenge Grant he received, T.H. and Sybille Culhane traveled with their two-year-old son, Kilian, to the Okavanga delta to experiment with building biogas systems out of local water tanks...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
May 13, 2010 In their first attempt to alter the conditions exacerbating deforestation and destruction of the Gombe National Park Chimpanzee reserve, Solar CITIES directors Hanna Fathy and T.H. Culhane joined Grace Gobbo from the Jane Goodall Institute to build the...