B-Energy, a social business with a footprint in rural Africa, Asia and Latin America, is providing Ethiopians with backpacks to produce biogas for cooking. Locals who have bought into the concept have ...

A boy walks down the middle of a busy street in a small country town in Ethiopia, carrying an enormous backpack. He doesn’t fold under its weight because this special backpack is filled with biogas.

Belete Tura straps a large, lightweight pack to her back before starting her short walk to a nearby biogas facility in ArsiNegele, in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. The pack resembles an ...

The renewable energy biogas comes from fermenting organic matter such as green waste or manure. In theory, it can be produced on just about any farm. But in practice, many farmers cannot afford the ...

The combination of a small biogas digester bag, several biogas backpacks and biogas stoves replaces firewood and charcoal for cooking. Not only the technology, but rather the approach of (B)energy ...

The idea could allow villagers to invest in expensive machines that turn manure into energy–and share the results. Millions of rural villagers around the world still cook with wood and charcoal, with ...

MS BELETE Tura straps a large, lightweight pack to her back before starting her short walk to a nearby biogas facility in Arsi Negele, in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. She is participating in a ...

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