[Sustain] German Green speech

[Don Eichelberger]

Maybe we should help the restaurants get reparations for public
policies that made them have to pay to dispose of a fuel source that
could have been taken advantage of long ago to help head off peak oil
and set an example of less wastefulness.

Just a thought.  Happy day for giving thanks,

Don

At 01:41 PM 11/19/2007, you wrote:
I went Thursday to hear a talk on international cooperation re climate
change by a Dr. Alfred Fuchs, a German Green who is in this country to
assume the lead in a Washington-based foundation on climate change.  It
was a fairly standard "got to do something about climate change" talk,
except that he emphasized government policies that would bring market
forces to bear on the problem, an emphasis one doesn't often hear from
American Greens.  He also focussed more than I am used to on soil
degradation.

At the reception afterward, I got talking to Olof Hansen of the EPA, who
has been working with the city on the biofuels from waste fats and oils
project.  So I asked him our question about toxins in the portion of the
raw material that they intend to scrape out of the sewers.  He was
rather nonplussed, then asked what kind of toxins I had in mind.  Well,
I wasn't sure either, so I said, "How about heavy metals?"  He replied
that in general that was not a major issue in SF, because we don't do
much manufacturing.  He went on to say that restaurant waste would
constitute the vast majority of the raw material, to the tune of 10
million gallons of oil per year.  And since restaurants usually pay to
have the stuff hauled away, they are happy to donate it to the city.

FYI

Jeanne

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"Human emancipation wll only be complete when the real, individual 
man (sic) is absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an 
individual man, in his every day life, in his work and in his 
relationships, he has become a species-being (politically accountabe 
to the whole); and when he recognizes and realizes his own power as 
social powers, so that he no  longer separates this social power from 
himself as political power."