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 | Europe, Our Projects
January 16, 2013 Just before heading to Mercy College in New York to teach, Culhane was invited to do a biogas workshop at Damanhur Eco-community in northern Italy. Simon Westermann, who had assisted Culhane in his biogas workshop in Budapest a year earlier,...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
September 25, 2011 We completed a 3 IBC Solar CITIES Biodigester build in the mountain village of Zazriva in Slovakia with the Catholic Youth Group, “Dobrej Noviny”. After completing the build, we put everything on a trailer and brought it to the home of...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 16, 2011 Read more here. biogas-system-and-scheffler-mirror_0 Image 1 of 3 Solar CITIES Biogas and a Scheffler Mirror - two complementary ways to cook with the...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 5, 2011 As a result of our Slovakia workshop, we held a biogas building workshop in Budapest, where I demonstrated the Solar CITIES IBC system for colder climates. I enjoyed the crowd sourcing and collective intelligence nature of the participants who came up...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
January 30, 2009 Home scale biogas at home. This is where it all began for Solar CITIES co-founder T.H. Culhane when he built his own household biodigester on the family porch in Essen after returning from his first visit to India in January of 2009 where he learned...