by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
May 21, 2016 The Solar CITIES Pickle Barrel biodigester was built at Beit Jala at the Talitha Kumi Evangelic Guest House during the Arava Institute Alumni Conference. It was disassembled and brought by bus to the Arava Institute at Kibbutz Keturah near Eilat and...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 14, 2016 Solar CITIES, Envisaj Mercy, and Palestinian Polytechnic students worked together on January 13 and 14 to build our “refugee camp” IBC based biodigester in a greenhouse at Hakoritna Farm. The previous day we had built an...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 13, 2016 Mercy College Envisaj students build a kitchen waste demonstration digester across from the home of Ecovillage leader and organic farmer Fayez Odey Taneeb in the city of Tulkarm. The Taneeb family uses the digester and monitors it as part of our...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 12, 2016 In Farkha Ecovillage in the West Bank, Mercy College Envisaj Club students worked with the local villagers on the construction of the second passive solar heated Solar CITIES 3 IBC biodigester. Farkha Ecovillage had been the site of this...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 10, 2016 This was the first field deployment of our new “refugee camp” biogas system made from 3 IBCs with a passive solar heating window on the south side. We did field trials at Tamera Ecovillage in Portugal, Kathy Puffer’s homestead...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
July 1, 2014 The project in Al Najaf, Iraq was run by our member Taha Majeed Lafta, a chemical engineer from the Ministry of Science & Technology, Directorate of Renewable Energy. T.H. Culhane made a trip to Iraq in the Spring of 2013 sponsored by the US Embassy...
