Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Programs Analyst, City of Emeryville
- 1333 Park Ave
- Emeryville
- United States
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Re: Turning off Computers: Energy Saved
2010-06-24 13:11:12 UTC
I've tried to get our employees to turn of their computers at night or have our IT department develop a policy or standardized settings for powering down, but IT says that they update software on evenings and weekends, so they want people to leave their desktop computers on so the system can remotely update everybody and have them ready in the morning when they come in. Anybody have a response to that type of issue?
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Programs Analyst
City of Emeryville -
Re: Campus Food & Beverage Sustainability
2010-04-29 21:01:46 UTC
In my neck of the woods, The University of California at Berkeley and the UC System in general have done some good work on sustainability and specifically with the cafeterias at UC Berkeley.
Here's a link:
http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/pages/food/overview.shtml
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Programs Analyst
City of Emeryville -
Re: Capture of Rain Water and Gray Water Useage
2009-10-29 19:58:30 UTC
Hi Ian,
The State of California is currently allowing small residential grey water systems to be installed without a permit. Check with [email protected] for the latest information.
-peter
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Single Use Plastic Drink Cups - Litter and Recycling
2008-10-22 15:28:33 UTC
Our community is discussing disposable plastic drink cups purchased at businesses in the City and the issues of litter and recycling. So I'd like to know if anyone has any information or tips on how to deal with litter or recycling of plastic drink cups. We have an ordinance that requires recyclable or compostable food service-ware, so we have already taken that step, but now we are getting into specific packaging products and the possible solutions and alternatives. So far we have only considered plastic bottles to be recyclable, but some communities have expanded their recycling programs to allow more types of plastic to be accepted for collection.
Thanks.
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville, Public Works Department
1333 Park Ave, Emeryville, CA 94608
510-596-3728
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Re: Stormwater management plans
2008-10-16 13:03:11 UTC
The small urban city, Emeryville, California, that I work for, got a grant a couple years ago from the EPA to develop stormwater guidelines for our new development projects. The guidelines have won awards from the American Planning Association state and local chapters. It's downloadable on our website at: http://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/planning/stormwater.html
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville,
Public Works Department
1333 Park Ave,
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-596-3728
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Re: Incentives for restaurants to decrease waste?
2008-09-16 15:34:29 UTC
Check out StopWaste.org's website for Food Waste programs. Many cities in Alameda County here have reduced prices for commercial organics service through their franchise agreements.
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville,
Public Works Department
1333 Park Ave,
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-596-3728 -
Re: hand dryers vs. paper hand towels
2008-04-18 17:34:41 UTC
There was a study done years ago (that I heard about - sorry don't have a link) that showed that dryers bake the bacteria onto your hands - paper towels wipe it off, so towels were considered better. There are cloth towel machines as someone mentioned. The typical one in the US is a blue towel circulating system for auto and machine shop workers, but in 1993 when I worked in Germany at a Berlitz language school they had an automatic white cloth towel machine in the bathroom for office workers. It had a motion detector that automatically rotated the towel loop to the next section when you entered the bathroom. It was a small bathroom for one person at a time. I haven't seen that office type cloth towel system in the US yet. These cloth systems are a bit different from paper towel dispensers (although there are automated disposable towel dispensers now too) and have different maintenance (loading and unloading of the cloth towel loops is a bit tricky I found - and when the machine breaks) and the cloth towels loops get taken away for cleaning, of course, like a diaper service. The air dryers probably have the least maintenance but the most energy costs - at least on-site...
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville,
Public Works Department
1333 Park Ave, Emeryville, CA 94608
510-596-3728
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Re: composting and other sustainability efforts
2008-03-07 19:02:52 UTC
All,
Check out StopWaste.org - they have a comprehensive program on home composting, curbside collection of food scraps and food soiled paper, and Bay Friendly Gardening/Landscaping that brings it all together with public outreach etc.
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville,
Public Works Department
1333 Park Ave,
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-596-3728 -
Re: Food waste
2007-06-28 13:34:19 UTC
Here in California, Alameda County's StopWaste.Org has done recent media campaigns on Food Scrap composting for residents. Almost all of the cities in the county now have curbside food scrap collection for single family residents. You can contact them for more details: http://www.stopwaste.org/home/index.asp?page=528
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville
1333 Park Ave 94608
510-596-3728
fax 596-4389
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RE: What are your country's top ten sustianability issues?
2007-04-12 16:34:41 UTC
I also think that Birgitte has covered most of the USA list, but I have a couple additions/modifications:
1. The American Dream - Regarding the home and lifestyle - to live in the suburbs with a single family home, white picket fence etc. - which leads to suburban sprawl and the un-sustainable car-centered culture. (See The Center for the New American dream... http://www.newdream.org)
2. Racism and the lack of jobs for urban low income residents - which causes crime and feeds the white flight to the suburbs and the lack of desire to live in more sustainable urban dense environments.
3. The use of public funds to subsidize corporate welfare with unsustainable practices such as: certain ways of harvesting of natural resources, crop practices that are heavy on petroleum-based fertilizers such as corn, and keeping the costs of non-renewable and nuclear energy low.
Peter Schultze-Allen
Environmental Analyst
City of Emeryville
1333 Park Ave 94608
510-596-3728
fax 596-4389
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