Projects and Workshops Completed
Checking in on Our Biodigester at the Arava Institute
January 13, 2014 In 2011, at the end of the Arava Institute Alumni Conference in Aqaba, Jordan, at which T.H. Culhane was the keynote speaker, a team of alumni and Culhane crossed the border to Israel with Arava biogas expert Yair Teller, and built two "salchicha"...
Spontaneous Biogas Digester Projects
April 27, 2013 At the end of my presentation tour for Earth Week, an enthusiastic student who had attended one of my talks, Yaşat Hacıbaloğlu, asked if he could learn how to build a home biodigester. Since I had a "day off" where Bosch/National Geographic/Fox...
US Embassy, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
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 Arabic...
ARTI Digester at the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq
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....
Visit to Ministry of Science and Technology
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...
United Nations Mission in Baghdad
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 written...
Biodigester at Damanhur Eco-Community
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,...
Biodigesters Survive Cold Winter in New York
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...
Zombie Survivalist Biogas Digester
August 3, 2012 James Goodman, youth leader of the the Zombie Response Team of California's San Pedro Forest region, and his parents, Gary Goodman and Lesly Chamberlain, and his grandmother, Joanne DuBarr, and Africa development specialist Mark David Heath pose in...
Installing an Insinkerator in the Himalayas
May 17, 2012 While we didn't actually build a functioning biodigester up at 5,600 meters, we did install two wind generators and a solar thermal vacuum system. First, we installed 400 W of photovoltaics, two 200-watt Chinook Wind generators, and a Solar Thermal vacuum...
Our First Puxin Biodigester
April 7, 2012 Working with Chance for Growth e.V., we built our first Puxin 10m3 system at the Allouette School for Girls on Palawan island.
Washington Math Science Technology School (WMST)
December 16, 2011 The Washington Math Science Technology School Biodigester was built by Solar CITIES co-founder Mostafa Darsh Hussein while visiting Washington DC on an exchange program. Culhane had previously led a biogas workshop at the school. The story is an...
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