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,...
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...
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...
