by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 20, 2013 After the midnight build of a Solar CITIES modified ARTI biodigester in Erbil, Kurdistan tonight, during my last night in Iraq with new friends Maw’eid and Bryant and Dave (construction, security and IT professionals), we said prayers in...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 16, 2013 Frank Finver, Victoria Reppert, and a group of folks from the UN, including Chief Humanitarian Officer Karin Mayer, built this ARTI digester in the garden at the Embassy residences. It was used for a workshop and to demonstrate the gas and fertilizer....
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 16, 2013 A bright spot in the ongoing conflict in Iraq was our visit in April of 2013 to the Iraq Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). After we built a family-sized biodigester on the grounds with their engineers, they surprised us by unveiling a host of...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
April 15, 2013 In the spring of 2013, TH Culhane returned to his mother’s native homeland of Iraq to conduct biogas trainings and workshops on sustainability in Baghdad and Erbil. This National Geographic article and this article from the United Nations were...
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 | Our Projects, United States
January 6, 2013 Culhane replaced two digesters at Mercy College in the fall of 2013. These digesters had been destroyed when his laboratory experiments rooms was dismantled. Culhane and Tasheem Hall filled the new digesters with horse manure from the stables at...
