by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Our Projects
January 10, 2015 At the end of our service learning trip to the Dominican Republic, Envisaj Mercy students and Solar CITIES co-founder T.H. Culhane introduced the IBC/ARTI hybrid system to the Batey Relief Alliance Center for AgroPecuaria. imgp0626 Image 1 of...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 26, 2014 Simon, the grandfather of Sakhiwe Songhe who helped us build the digester at Sundowner’s Backpackers Lodge, lives on a farm in Swaziland outside Manzini where he has fruit orchards and keeps cattle, geese, and chickens. It is here that...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 24, 2014 Dr. T.H. Culhane, Rohit Fenn, and Amit Fenn traveled to Swaziland to work with Science in Action winners Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela. Rohit is a young man from India who designed a more efficient toilet and Amit is an evolutionary biologist...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
April 6, 2014 Our second small-scale biogas build in Turkey, one year after the first one we built with Yaşat Hacıbaloğlu. The network of youth interested in biogas grows ever stronger and brighter. Things have been stalled here in the DIY realm because Youtube is...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Middle East, Our Projects
January 16, 2014 We built this Solar CITIES IBC/ARTI Hybrid Biodigester system on January 15th at Kibbutz Lotan after Culhane field tested the new design early in the fall at Mercy College. The new idea was to use buckets for the feed in and slurry out, simulating a...