by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 24, 2015 In April of 2015, T.H. Culhane of Solar CITIES travelled to Tamera Eco-village in Portugal. Culhane had personally bought and shipped Puxin molds there as a gift to the Global Ecovillage Network in honor of fallen comrade Paulo Mellett. Culhane had...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 20, 2015 “Stretcho” is an IBC tank system that was built during the Solar CITIES Biogas Workshop at Tamera in April 2015. As part of the Experimental Week that took place in August 2015, the IBC tank was wrapped with two layers of stretch...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 17, 2015 “Grace Kelly” is one of the biodigesters that were built during the Experimental Week in August 2015 at Tamera Solar Village. It is one of Solar CITIES’ signature IBC biodigesters, insulated with a light straw construction with a...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
August 13, 2015 “Sao Paulo” is one of the two biodigesters that were built during the Experimental Week at Tamera Solar Village in August of 2015. The system was inspired by Solar CITIES’ 3 IBC tank system in Sao Paulo. At this site, we modified...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
July 8, 2015 Our fourth of seven biogas workshops in Ireland took place at a permaculture community garden in Clonakilty, West Cork, just up the street from the hardware store. Into this IBC tank we put pex heating coils similar to what we have done in New York and...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
July 11, 2015 We installed what we believe is the world’s first in-house in kitchen home biodigester in the apartment of Blue Flame tour organizer and Solar CITIES team members Eimhin David and Chrissie Callanan. They set a precedent for all of us in the...