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 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...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Europe, Our Projects
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...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
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...
by Janice Kelsey | May 3, 2020 | Our Projects, United States
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...
