[CPEO-BIF] Blighted industrial, residential sites to produce bio-fuel crops

["Robert Hersh" <b_hersh@verizon.net>]

(At large brownfield sites, there are various initiatives to grow crops that
can be used to produce biodiesel and ethanol fuels.  This Pittsburgh group,
however, is planning on growing energy crops not only on former brownfield
mill sites, but also on some of Pittsburgh 15,000 vacant residential lots.) 

CMU grads want to use blighted industrial, residential sites to produce
bio-fuel crops

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

By Bill Toland

GTECH -- Growth Through Energy and Community Health -- is a pilot-stage
Carnegie Mellon University spin-off conceived by three recent graduates of
the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy. The principals -- Andrew Butcher,
Matthew Ciccone and Chris Koch -- are joined by principal and consultant
Nathaniel Doyno, head of Steel City Biofuels, which brokers deals between
makers and users of biofuels.

This ambitious foursome, along with a sprinkling of interns and employees,
hopes to remediate blighted industrial and residential lots into fertile
soil, to be used for planting biofuel crops.

"It's a proven technology, but in an unproven environment," said Mr.
Butcher, 27. "The idea of growing energy crops is not necessarily a new one;
the idea of growing them on distributed sites on vacant land, in an urban
context, is kind of a new idea."

For the entire article, see:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800495-28.stm


Bob Hersh
CPEO


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