{"id":10475,"date":"2024-07-03T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:14:28","slug":"governor-shapiro-visits-biodigester-at-dickinson-college-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/governor-shapiro-visits-biodigester-at-dickinson-college-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Shapiro Visits Biodigester at Dickinson College Farm!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Governor Shapiro Visits Biodigester at Dickinson College Farm\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GGhcGrRj_tc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Video by Joe O&#8217;Neill; article by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently visited the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/homepage\/389\/college_farm\">Dickinson College Farm<\/a>&nbsp;to learn about its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/news\/article\/5576\/college_farm_waste-to-energy_project_honored_with_national_award\">award-winning<\/a>&nbsp;biodigester project. He was not disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThink of what\u2019s happening,\u201d Shapiro marveled, speaking with fellow onlookers at the site of the innovative green-energy project. \u201cThey\u2019re turning waste to energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The college\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/news\/article\/5647\/powering_up_pioneering_biogas_project_poised_for_prime_time\">new anaerobic digester<\/a>&nbsp;converts food waste and manure into biogas, a burnable, renewable, carbon-neutral energy source that can be used for cooking, heating and generating electricity. It is the only college farm project in the Northeast to serve as a net exporter of clean energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biodigester, which holds about 115,000 gallons of liquified waste underground, will process the manure from 150 dairy cows and two tons of food waste every day, said Matt Steiman, assistant director and energy-projects director of the College Farm. This will generate more than enough renewable energy to power the farm\u2019s operations;&nbsp;excess clean energy will be sold back to the power company and used to power neighboring homes and farms. The biodigester project also stands to reduce water pollution to local streams and the Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seeing the innovative system in person, Shapiro said he\u2019s grateful for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dickinson.edu\/sustainability\">Dickinson\u2019s commitment to sustainability<\/a>&nbsp;and the college&#8217;s&nbsp;leadership in sustainability education and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe work that farmers do every day is to feed people \u2026 and we understand more and more that that work requires us to have a focused strategy,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cWhat you&#8217;ve built here at the Dickinson Farm should be a model for the rest of Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro recently visited the&nbsp;Dickinson College Farm&nbsp;to learn about its&nbsp;award-winning&nbsp;biodigester project. He was not disappointed. \u201cThink of what\u2019s happening,\u201d Shapiro marveled, speaking with fellow onlookers at the site of the innovative green-energy project. \u201cThey\u2019re turning waste to energy.\u201d&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/governor-shapiro-visits-biodigester-at-dickinson-college-farm\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5487,"featured_media":10477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10797,44383],"tags":[22061,22064],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press","tag-dickinson-college-farm","tag-sustainable-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/farm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}