by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Caribbean, Our Projects
January 7, 2015 “La Bomba de Cenovi”: The Dominican Republic’s first Hestia Home Biodigester at the home of Tesori Alvarez in San Francisco de Macoris. This first for Solar CITIES was the idea of Martha Perez from our Mercy College Environmental...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
January 2, 2015 Let freedom ring! In the land of the Liberty Bell, a new bid for independence has been launched with the creation of America’s first Puxin 10m3 biogas system at the homestead farm of Jody and Bob Spangler. Built by our Solar CITIES team...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | North America, Our Projects
January 2, 2015 By nightfall on Monday, December 29th, 2014, just as the downpour of rain started, we miraculously finished building the Yucatan’s first urban biogas digester. For this digester, we used our Solar CITIES modification to the ARTI design. On the...
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!...
