Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have encouraged factory farms to get bigger ...

Michigan State University is poised to begin work on a new anaerobic digester, a system that will not only help re-use waste from MSU’s farms and dining halls, but also will create energy for some ...

Paul Wolcott, owner of the Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, is used to turning one thing into another. On his 4,000-cow farm in Cohocton, seeds become feedstock, which feeds cows, who then ...

After San Luis Obispo County residents toss yard waste and food scraps into their green bin, the waste is transformed into renewable energy. San Luis Obispo County green waste travels from its green ...

The foundation is laid for an organic waste processing facility in Yaphank that is poised to harness greenhouse gas emissions and provide a renewable source of natural gas and fertilizer — a major ...

An anaerobic digester used by the city of Ames' Water Pollution Control Facility. One of two recent feasibility studies by an Iowa State University research team exploring using prairie grass to make ...

Researchers from the University of Valladolid and the Technical University of Madrid in Spain have proposed to hybridize biogas and biomethane production systems from cattle manure anaerobic digestion ...

It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...

Abbie Fentress Swanson contributed this story for Good Food. A Point Reyes Holstein. Photo Courtesy of Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company. At Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, Bob Giacomini, 77, ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

The forthcoming plant in the Twin Cities area is backed by a family company with ties to composters that believes anaerobic ...