Wednesday Night: Green Drinks on St. Patrick's Day, with Harvest Power
Boston Green Drinks
Join us next week for another night of Green Drinks, at Tavern in
Central Square, on St. Patrick's Day!
Boston Green Drinks
March 17, 6 - 8 pm; speaker starts at 7
Tavern in Central Square, 720 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Speaker: Alex McFarlane, from Harvest Power
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Our speaker will be Alex McFarlane, from Harvest Power. Harvest
(http://www.harvestpower.com) provides industry leading technologies,
project development and product marketing capabilities to extract the
maximum value from organic waste through the production of renewable
energy in combination with high-quality compost-based soil and mulch
products. Harvest partners with compost facilities and waste managers
in North America to build, own and operate next-generation organics
recycling facilities.
Alexander MacFarlane is the Director of Research and Development at
Harvest Power. Prior to joining Harvest, Alex founded Think 21, LLC
a
biogas project developer focused on High Solids Anaerobic Digestion.
He also founded and ran a green building consultancy at Community
Environmental Center, a New York City-based non-profit. Some of his
notable projects included the first LEED Silver affordable gut-rehab
in NYC and the NYCDEP/EPA 2006 Green Building Competition winning
Pitt
St. Residence. Alex has a Master's in Environmental Management and
Policy from the I.I.I.E.E. at Lund University in Sweden and a B.A. in
Environmental Biology from Columbia University. He is a certified
SWANA Compost Operations Manager, a L.E.E.D. Accredited Professional
and the inventor of a patent-pending building integrated solar
technology.
Alex will talk about biomethane, the best biofuel. Society's biofuel
technology platform should not compete with food production, but
rather should be a key component in increasing the quality, quantity
and sustainability of agriculture & horticulture. Biomethane can be
created from cutting-edge, proven digestion and gasification
technologies while producing valuable compost and biochar soil
products. All aspects of these processes occur in nature and can now
be harnessed cost-effectively. As we recognize the imperative to
move
beyond existing methods of waste disposal, fossil-based energy and
chemical-intensive food production, it is now essential to choose the
right biofuel technology platform. The biomethane platform is a
powerful common-sense tool for combating the climate crisis while
improving our quality of life.
See you next week!
- Boston Green Drinks