The United Nations’ Step Toward Creating a Global Culture of Sustainable Food Consumption
February 25, 2013
The UN recently announced Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint, a new global campaign aimed at reducing the staggering 1.3 billion tons of food wasted annually around the world. Together with a number of national agencies, the UN Environment Program targets waste generated along the entire chain of food production and consumption. Food loss, the food that Read more...
BioCycle West Coast Conference 2012 happening this week!
April 17, 2012
Waste management leaders are getting inspired with new ideas, new projects and new strategies this week at the 26th Annual BioCycle West Coast Conference 2012 in Portland, Oregon. This event is must -see for anyone around the Portland area who cares about processing organic residuals and is working to transform organics in the waste stream Read more...
Taking “Sorting” To the Next Level
March 15, 2012
Portlandia fans may have noticed a nod to recycling with their clip, “Sanitation Twins.” Like most episodes, they take a regular situation – recycling sorting – to the highest level. Ahh, Portlandia, where coffee shops have four recycling bins for their cups, including rose bins for straws with lipstick. Satire aside, anyone who has implemented Read more...
“Throw in the Know” – Four Tips for Savvy Sorting
February 16, 2012
At Harvest Power, we talk a lot about Source Separated Organics, Zero Waste programs, and putting organic materials to their highest and best use. The beauty of these programs are that the power to make a difference lies in our hands: By sorting our waste efficiently – food scraps, yard trimmings, recycling, and landfill-bound materials Read more...
A Greener NY? Anaerobic Digestion Can Help!
January 24, 2012
On January 12, 2012, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered his annual “State of the City” address. It was the mayor’s 11th such speech and, as we were pleased to see, one of his most environmentally-focused. In fact, Bloomberg spent a hefty portion of it introducing the City’s new PlaNYC environmental agenda. “If we’re Read more...
Harvest Power presents at USCC Annual Conference: January 17-20 Austin, TX
January 17, 2012
Everyone is excited about this year’s 20th Annual US Composting Council Conference and Tradeshow at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin, TX. The conference will feature workshops, training courses, tours, and a trade-show dedicated to composting, wood waste and organics recycling. Several Harvest representatives are amongst the key industry presenters. The USCC Conference, for those that don’t know Read more...
Top posts from 2011: composting, organic waste management, anaerobic digestion, community initiatives
December 28, 2011
As 2011 comes to a close, we’ve taken a look back at the 100+ blog posts from the past year…..and identified a few that are worth discovering, or re-visiting. Key themes forming the foundation of this blog have been organic waste management, anaerobic digestion, food waste, composting, landfill diversion, soil amendment and the initiatives of Read more...
Success stories: food waste management and recycling
December 13, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done an outstanding job of organizing and presenting useful and informative information on their website. For example in the “Wastes” area of the EPA site there are quick links to vast amounts of information on a wide range of topics: composting, electronics recycling, household hazardous waste, materials and Read more...
How does an anaerobic digester turn organic material into renewable energy and compost?
October 26, 2011
People often ask, “What does an anaerobic digester look like, and how does it turn organic materials into renewable energy and compost?” We put together a quick video to explain the process. Grab some popcorn. Munch away as you take a virtual spin around our high solids anaerobic digester. Peek inside the hydrolysis percolaters. Watch Read more...
Top Cleantech companies recognized, 2010 list shifts toward efficiency, biofuels, waste management
October 14, 2011
Harvest power has been named to the 3rd annual Global Cleantech 100. This is a list developed and announced by the Cleantech Group, a global consulting and event company dedicated to the business of clean technologies. The Global Cleantech 100 “heralds the top private companies in clean technology, those consistently leading the way”. On October Read more...
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