[ca-gw] Reminder: TONIGHT! Burn Green Soiree, Monday, May 18th in OAKLAND

[elizabeth dougherty]

You are invited to participate in the monthly meeting of the sustainability
forum, the Burn Green Soiree.  This month¹s speakers are:  Peter
Schultze-Allen, Environmental Analyst for the City of Emeryville, talking
about storm water management and David Hammond of Go2Water discussing algae
wastewater treatment processes.

Date:   Monday, May 18th
Time:  7-9 pm
Location:  Revolution Café OAKLAND (NOT SF!!!!!)
1612 7th St, Oakland - (510) 625-0149 (one block from west oakland bart
station)

Additional Info:  Our evening will be enhanced by musicians Laura Lacky and
Co.

Peter Schultze-Allen, Environmental Analyst for the City of Emeryville, LEED
AP
Emeryville has dense development patterns, heavy soils, an industrial
history and high groundwater levels.
Stormwater treatment features for this urban bayside setting include bio-
retention features such as flow-through planter boxes and rain gardens,
infiltration with sub-drainage, permeable paving, bio-filtration swales,
podium and roof plantings, and water storage. Emeryville¹s Stormwater
Guideline¹s for Dense, Green Development can be found at:
www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/planning/pdf/stormwater_guidelines.pdf.

Peter is an extremely proficient environmental analyst and program
developer. His ideas, vision and attention to nuance and detail have
produced many leading efforts in the recycling and waste reduction realm in
particular. Peter made the transition from recycling to sustainability
flawlessly, bringing with him all of the skills and awareness that produce a
professional who can function very effectively in many issue realms and with
varied stakeholders. On top of all that, Peter is just a really great person
to work with - a team player that always keeps his eye on the best outcome
for the community and planet.

David Hammond, PhD, Go2Water
http://www.go2water.net/waste_water_treatment.html
David at GO2Water.net

GO2 Water is an environmental solutions company with patented,
commercially-proven processes for treating wastewater and for recovering
bioenergy, nutrients, and water for reuse while operating within a
carbon-neutral ecological footprint.  Our innovative and unique technology
has a forty-year operational history and has been placed at municipal and
industrial facilities to meet U.S. EPA discharge standards at less than half
the investment and one-third the operational costs of conventional
wastewater treatment technologies.

David is an environmental chemist with a broad interdisciplinary background
in physical, biological and social sciences. He received his M.S. from the
Energy & Resources Group and a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Environmental
Chemistry, both at the University of California, Berkeley, where he
specialized in Chemical Ecology‹the interaction of plants and animals at the
chemical level. While at UC Berkeley he was honored with two Regents
Fellowships and the Macy Award for excellence in entomology. He has
consulted to private industry concerning cork production, pest management,
biological wastewater treatment, sustainability, and biomimetic product
design, including work for Nike, IDEO, and the Green Chemistry Institute.
David founded two companies in Guatemala: a non-profit organization called
Altertec that teaches Permaculture to small farmers; and Mayacert, the
country¹s largest organic certification agency.  He has 2 patents for
naturally-derived insecticides, has several peer-reviewed publications, and
speaks Spanish and Portuguese. His interests lie in green chemistry,
industrial ecology, ecological design, biomimicry, evolutionary psychology,
and ecological wastewater treatment.  In his free time he enjoys travel,
photography, ultimate frisbee, and gardening. David is a co-founder and
principal with GO2 Water.


About the Burn Green Soiree:
http://groups.google.com/group/burn-green/

This group is an ACTION-oriented group focused on developing innovative,
creative, out-of-the-box solutions to sustainability "problems" in the areas
of energy/power/renewables, recycling/composting/gray water, carbon
mitigation, food security, transportation, land use, environmental
education.  

The members are representatives of city/county governments,
sustainability/environmental/technology development businesses and
nonprofits, funders with deep pockets, as well as artists, designers,
inventors, engineers, mechanics.  The idea is to connect the ingenuity,
out-of-the-box design strategies and the humor and engaged nature of artists
and activists to those forging the arena of sustainability problem solving.

The ethos is based in open hand, open source, cooperative development of
projects that address immediate, localized sustainability issues.

This is a participant-driven group, which meets once a month in the SF Bay
Area, providing 2 presentations on innovative projects, discussion of what
is needed and how to accomplish, specific project development, and open
networking.  The goal, beyond information sharing, is to identify specific
sustainability needs/issues and develop specific solutions that are
innovative and fun, as well as to access available funding for project
development and implementation.

The Burn Green Soiree Bay Area Sustainability Events Calendar:
http://tinyurl.com/6a93l2

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor
have no food, they call me a communist."  (Archbishop Dom Helder Camara)
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elizabeth dougherty, phd
oakland, ca  94608
          
home page:              http://www.elizd.com
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burn green soiree:   http://groups.google.com/group/burn-green/
sustainability events calendar:  http://tinyurl.com/6a93l2



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