Agricultural startups represent the next frontier for venture capitalists
April 2, 2010
In case you missed it, yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured an article on the rise of agriculture-related startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. The story included Harvest Power and featured our CEO Paul Sellew. Silicon Valley is returning to its roots. The tech-centric area, once known for farming, has seen a sharp rise in the Read more...
Making the case for anaerobic digestion in the U.S.
April 1, 2010
Though we at Harvest Power are in the business of anaerobic digestion, we realize the term might be new to those outside the clean tech industry. The concept is not so new to our European neighbors. In fact, recent information shows Europe to be two to three decades ahead of the United States in this Read more...
CEO Paul Sellew to speak April 20 at Clean Energy Adoption in New England
March 31, 2010
Harvest Power CEO Paul Sellew will be among the presenters set to speak at Clean Tech Kingpins Clean Energy Adoption in New England this month. The event, is set for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, at Nexus Green Building Resource Center, 38 Chauncy Street, 7th Floor in Boston, Mass. Kingpins is a forum that highlights Read more...
Clean Tech at GLOBE 2010
March 31, 2010
Vancouver B.C. buzzed last week with world leaders “dedicated to the business of the environment.” Harvest was part of the mix at Globe 2010 making links between Seattle, Vancouver BC, and the world. It all started out with transportation organized by enterpriseSeattle. Imagine an eclectic group of Seattle leaders: clean tech engineers, marketing folks, film Read more...
Cooperation, Not Solid Waste Showdowns
March 22, 2010
We need materials management solutions, not solid waste showdowns. In the March-April 2010 edition of MSW Management, Rick Brandes, former chief of the Energy Recovery and Waste Disposal Branch, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, of the EPA, implores: Please! There is so much trash generated (between 240 and 400 million tons per year, depending Read more...
Food Waste Can Fuel Its Own Collection, Plus Produce Clean Energy
March 16, 2010
By Tom Kraemer As VP for project delivery at Harvest, I’m responsible for getting our biogas-energy plants up and running. We’re currently in the permitting and engineering stage for our first biogas-energy plant in Richmond BC, near Vancouver. We’ll use food waste collected from households and businesses in the Metro Vancouver region as our fuel Read more...
Welcome to the World of Bio-Char
March 8, 2010
BIO-CHAR AND THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL UNDERGROUND BY WAYNE ROBERTS (Re-posted from Beginning Farmers.org) After the failure of world leaders to produce a climate protection plan in Copenhagen, burnt offerings and negative thinking can keep us positive. The burnt offering is a breakthrough that can buy time by getting carbon dioxide from rotting plants out of Read more...
News from Indonesia–A “Cigar” Turns Waste into Energy
March 5, 2010
“Indonesia hopes that developed countries, including multinational corporations, can assist with the funds needed to help install similar energy generators" Read more...
Our Mission and Why it Matters to Me
March 2, 2010
By Paul McMenemy I am a Co-founder of Harvest and a former Wall Street energy banker. So how did a Wall Streeter desk-jockey get involved in composting and biogas? Being under the Towers on 9/11 kind of galvanized me into action. I came away from that horrific episode looking for a pragmatic approach to augment Read more...
Filling Up on Food Waste: A Shocking Realization
February 24, 2010
This is a link to a great blog on food waste from the Jewish Chronicle. It’s good to remember that companies like Harvest Power aren’t building organic waste processing plants simply to create energy. Food waste is an important natural hazard, just like oil spills or carbon monoxide. First off, why is there so much Read more...
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