Projects and Workshops Completed

Clonakilty Biogas Workshop

Clonakilty Biogas Workshop

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...

World’s First Kitchen Biodigester in Ireland

World’s First Kitchen Biodigester in Ireland

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 movement by...

Greenhouse Biodigester in Ireland

Greenhouse Biodigester in Ireland

July 9, 2015 Working with the great men of the Men's Shed in Portlaoise we built a greenhouse IBC biodigester. The unemployment situation in Ireland is dire but Irish men are rising to the occasion.  The "Men's Shed" concept is a very hopeful solution. Groups of...

Timoleague Biogas Workshop

Timoleague Biogas Workshop

July 7, 2015 Our third of seven biodigesters in seven locations in Ireland was built in a workshop organized by Eimhin David Callanan and took place in Timoleague West Cork at a family farm.

Biogas Workshop in Claregalway

Biogas Workshop in Claregalway

July 6, 2015 A home bio digester workshop was hosted at Bia Oisin, Claregalway by Dr. T.H. Culhane and Dr. Sybille Culhane as they work on the Solar C.3.I.T.I.E.S. mission: "Connecting Community Catalysts Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Solutions". At...

Ireland’s First Community-Scale IBC Biodigester

July 3, 2015 The Solar CITIES Blue Flame tour of Ireland kicked off with a community build of a Solar CITIES IBC biodigester in the Birr Community Growery in the historic town of Birr. Birr is Gaelic for "The Wells" and, interestingly, Bir also means "well" in Arabic....

Permaculture Community Embraces Puxin Biodigester

Permaculture Community Embraces Puxin Biodigester

June 19, 2015 Why is this guy smiling? Because the Permaculture Movement in New York has embraced the Solar CITIES Biogas Movement. We joined forces to build the state's first community-scale biodigester, a Solar CITIES variant of the 6m3 Puxin cement system. We...

First Green Faith Build in NY

First Green Faith Build in NY

June 15, 2015 To launch our Green Faith Initiative in New York, Solar CITIES US team built the Empire State's first biodigester in a house of worship at the First Unitarian Church in Hastings New York.  The digester is of the Solar CITIES insulated IBC design and...

The Greening of Greenburgh Begins

The Greening of Greenburgh Begins

June 5, 2015 Greenburgh's Yosemite Park in White Plains, NY is home to the town's first summer festival barbecue biogas unit. The digester is a dual IBC polyurethane insulated Solar CITIES system. It should provide gas lamp and cooking demonstrations throughout the...

Groundwork Hudson Valley Eco Home Digester

Groundwork Hudson Valley Eco Home Digester

June 5, 2015 Over the last two years, Solar CITIES and Mercy College have built an enduring relationship with the Science Barge. This relationship led to Solar CITIES donating our signature liquid composting biogas system, field tested at Mercy, to our neighbors at...

Aquaponics and Practical Education Center Begins Biogas Training

Aquaponics and Practical Education Center Begins Biogas Training

May 29, 2015 On Friday, John Maer, preacher, teacher, and visionary, was giving us a tour of his amazing Practical Education Center which is based around aquaponics, when we spied an IBC tank lying around. We had been talking about how we might integrate small-scale...

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