Marin Group

"Sustainable Energy from Landfill Gas" - a forum

Saturday, April 29, 1 - 4 pm, in the Board of Supervisors Chamber at the Marin Civic Center, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael.

Redwood Landfill is one of the largest sources of greenhouse-gas emissions in Marin. The Sierra Club Marin Group is co-sponsoring a forum to discuss different ways of turning the landfill into one of the largest sustainable-energy facilities in Marin by recovering the energy of the methane emitted as "landfill gas".

Speakers include:

• Brian Guzzone, team leader of the Landfill Methane Outreach Program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on the importance of capturing energy from landfill gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
• Paul Pabor, vice president for renewable energy at Waste Management Inc., on options for recovering the energy in landfill gas and how WMI has done so at other facilities;
• Scott Walker, branch manager of the California Integrated Waste Management Board, on what other landfills in California have done and some permitting issues.

Other co-sponsors are:

• the Environmental Forum of Marin;
• Sustainable Marin;
• the Marin County Community Development Agency, Sustainability Team.

Admission is free to all. Come help us find a way to turn our garbage into a valuable resource!

For more information call Trip Allen, Marin Group executive committee member, at (415) 272-8983. For information and alerts about Redwood Landfill or other Marin environmental issues, please send your email address to webmaster -at- sfbaysc.org.

"Sonoma-Marin Rail (SMART) - Boon or Boondoggle?"

Thursday, May 18, 7 pm, San Rafael City Council Chambers, Fifth Street at E Street, San Rafael; doors open at 6:45; program begins promptly at 7.

Please join Sierra Club Marin Group for a forum that gives equal time and opportunity to both sides of the issue of Sonoma-Marin Rail!

This forum will feature:

• prominent spokespersons on both sides of this issue;
• pro and con presentations;
• audience questions to a panel including local-government, transit-advocate, and environmentalist perspectives.

Panelists

• Moderator: Larry Fahn, Marin resident and former president of the Sierra Club.

Pro:

• Peter Breen, San Anselmo mayor, SMART boardmember
• Wendy Kallins, Marin Safe Routes to Schools program director
• David Schonbrunn, president, TRANSDEF (Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund)

Con:

• Mike Arnold, chair, Marin Citizens for Effective Transportation
• Ron Ford, representing Marin Supervisor Susan Adams
• Jana Haehl, president, Marin Conservation League.

For more information, contact Louis Nuyens, (415) 488-1734 or email Lou -at- primavoce.org