Join us next week for another night of Green Drinks, at Tavern in
Central Square, on St. Patrick's Day!

NOTE: You dont' need to register to come, but it will be useful to connect with each other!

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

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.