New York, NY — October 12, 2018] At its annual awards reception in Manhattan this week, Energy Vision, a national 501[c]3 non-profit which researches and promotes sustainable low-carbon energy and transportation strategies, honored business and government leaders and health and alternative energy advocates whose work is helping speed adoption of renewable natural gas (RNG) made from organic waste. The 2018 Energy Vision awardees include:
- The City of Toronto, which collects residential food waste and will soon process it into RNG to power its refuse trucks, which collect more food waste — a virtuous cycle or “closed loop” system.
- The Kroger Co.,the largest grocery chain in the U.S., which processes its organic waste at its anaerobic digesters at locations in California and Indiana and uses the fuel to heat its warehouses and power trucks in Oregon.
- Philip J. Landrigan, Director of the Global Public Health Program at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College, noted child health expert, and author of Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Should Know, who advocates ending reliance on diesel trucks and buses and adopting clean alternatives to improve public health.
- James S. Cannon, president of Energy Futures, Inc. who received Energy Vision’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his work conducting seminal research in the fields of alternative energy and alternative transportation fuels over four decades.
Renewable natural gas is made by capturing and refining methane biogases emitted as organic wastes (from communities, food processing and agricultural operations) decompose. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. Producing RNG prevents it from escaping into the atmosphere and exacerbating climate change. Instead, biogases are processed into pipeline-grade natural gas, chemically similar to conventional natural gas, but 100% renewable, and the lowest-carbon fuel available today.
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