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 | May 3, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
October 31, 2015 In 2016, Solar CITIES will be moving rapidly toward providing biogas systems for refugee camps and orphanages to respond to the crises of displaced persons exacerbated in extremis by the armed conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Palestine and other parts...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
September 26, 2015 Inspired by the promising data from our experiments at Tamera Solar Test Field, we decided to take one of our soy-based polyurethane foam-insulated biodigesters up to Kathy Puffer’s Homestead Ecosystem in Tillson, NY. We cut out the foam on...
