News, insights, and updates from the Liberty Power Gardens team.
Ask most people why they don’t compost or separate food scraps and you’ll expect to hear something about effort or indifference. What you usually hear instead is simpler: there’s nowhere to put it....
sustainabilityWaste feels like an event. You fill a bin, a truck comes, the bin is empty again, and the transaction seems finished. But burying organic material isn’t an event — it’s the start of a process that ...
technologyMost conversations about renewable energy are really conversations about intermittency. Solar produces when the sun is up, wind produces when the wind blows, and everything downstream — storage, gr...
communityMost residents never see the bill for what they throw out. Waste collection shows up as a line item in a municipal budget, or folded quietly into a monthly utility statement, and that’s the end of ...
sustainabilityWhen people talk about anaerobic digestion, they talk about gas. That’s fair — biogas is the headline output, and methane reduction is the reason most communities start the conversation. But focusi...
technologyThere’s a habit in waste management of treating “organics” as a single category. Food scraps, grass clippings, soiled paper, garden trimmings — all green, all compostable, all headed to the same pl...
communityMost community organics programs don’t fail because people refuse to participate. They fail because of what ends up in the bin alongside the food scraps. A produce bag here, a plastic fork there, a...
sustainabilityThere’s a temptation, when you build infrastructure for a living, to describe your technology as the answer. We’d rather be straight with you. Anaerobic digestion is not the first-best solution to ...
technologyAsk most people how to deal with organic waste and they’ll say composting. It’s the intuitive answer, and for a large share of material it’s the right one. But anyone who has actually run an organi...
communityEvery growing season, our communities generate an enormous, invisible harvest. Grass clippings from weekly mowing. Leaves raked into piles each autumn. Garden trimmings, spent annuals, hedge cuttin...
sustainabilityIn the urgent calculus of climate action, methane represents an unusual opportunity. Unlike carbon dioxide—which persists in the atmosphere for centuries, gradually warming the planet—methane is a ...
technologyAcross the United States, municipalities are grappling with a fundamental problem: what to do with the massive volume of organic waste that streams through communities every single day. Food waste ...
communityEvery year, vast quantities of food waste stream through retail locations, restaurants, grocery stores, and households. Historically, that waste was simply discarded—sent to landfills, incinerators...
sustainabilityWhen we talk about renewable energy, solar panels and wind turbines usually dominate the conversation. But there’s a quieter, more overlooked renewable energy source that’s been powering communitie...
technologyThere’s a class of technologies that have existed for decades but are suddenly relevant at scale: they’re not new, they’re proven, and they work. Anaerobic digestion is one of them. For over a cent...
communityWe live in a moment when many of us feel powerless. The climate crisis is vast, global, and shaped by forces far beyond our individual control. So we recycle more carefully. We change our light bul...
sustainabilityThere’s a quiet energy revolution happening in communities across the world, powered by something we usually throw away. Food waste, yard debris, and agricultural residues are being fed into anaero...
technologyThere’s a revolution happening in methane detection. Satellites are now mapping methane plumes from space, drones are scanning landfills and farms with thermal sensors, and ground-based instruments...
communityThere’s a quiet revolution happening in neighborhoods across the country. Food waste that once piled into landfills is now being reclaimed as a resource. Composting collectives, urban farms, and di...
sustainabilityHere’s a number that should keep us awake at night: roughly 30-40% of the food supply in developed nations never reaches a plate. It spoils in stores, gets tossed by restaurants, or sits forgotten ...
technologyAnaerobic Digestion: How We Turn Waste Into Power
communityWhat If Your Community’s Waste Was Energy?
sustainabilityFood Waste vs. Plastic: Which Climate Crisis Are We Actually Facing?
sustainabilityHere’s a number that rarely changes but always stings: Americans throw away around $1,500 worth of food per household of four every single year. Multiply that by roughly 130 million U.S. households...
technologyBy 2050, nearly half of the world’s urban population will face water scarcity — roughly 1.7 to 2.4 billion people unable to meet their basic water needs. That projection comes from a 2021 Nature Co...
communityNew data from the U.S. Food Waste Pact’s 2025 report reveals a shift in how retail food waste moves through the system — and the implications reach well beyond grocery store loading docks. For the ...
sustainabilityThe City of Napa, California recently completed one of the most technically integrated organics management systems in the United States — and the way they got there offers a blueprint worth studyin...
technologyWhen most people think about biogas from anaerobic digesters, they picture electricity generation — biogas feeding a generator that produces kilowatt-hours for the grid. It’s the most visible appli...
communityWhat does energy resilience actually mean? For most communities, it means relying on distant infrastructure — power plants hundreds of miles away, supply chains that stretch across continents, syst...
sustainabilityWhen a Solution Addresses Two Crises at Once
technologyThe Infrastructure Inflection Point
communityOne Number That Changes Everything
sustainabilityThe Yard Waste Problem We Ignore
sustainabilityWalking through an American city in 2026, you’re likely to hear conversations about things that used to feel far away. Water rationing. Boil-water advisories for hundreds of thousands of people. Aq...
technologyFor years, the climate conversation has relied on voluntary pledges and good intentions. Nations signed up for the Global Methane Pledge, corporations made net-zero commitments, and the dialogue mo...
communityIt sounds like a small thing: a community composting program. You drop off your food scraps at a drop-site instead of throwing them in the trash. But research from Duke University’s Center for Adva...
sustainabilityHere’s a sobering stat: 29% of all food produced in the U.S. ends up unsold or uneaten. That’s not just waste — it’s a climate bomb. When that food rots in landfills, it produces methane, a greenho...
technologyWe Already Have the Tools
communityThe Green Waste Hiding in Plain Sight
sustainabilityA Problem Bigger Than We Thought
technologyThe Detection Revolution
communityThe Hidden Emissions in Our Neighborhoods
sustainabilityCentralized waste processing has served cities for decades, but a decentralized model offers surprising advantages for density, cost, and resilience.
technologyA look at the science behind capturing methane from food waste and converting it into usable electricity and heat for surrounding homes.
communityWith 40,000 tons of food waste annually, Jersey City faces a growing challenge. Here’s how local biodigestion can make a dent.
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