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Park People Milwaukee & Lake Front Beer Re-Cap

Singing, dancing, and lots of park enthusiasts - 209 people to be exactly came to the Park People"friendraiser" at Lakefront Brewery, had a few beers and talked about our parks' problems... it was a good day!

The Park People are an excellent resource for those looking to get into some springtime gardening or raising awareness and money for our city parks. The mission of the parks is simple, to make Milwaukee better. Take it from them our county parks...

Milwaukee County Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture, an operating unit of Milwaukee County Government, provides quality of life experiences to Milwaukee County residents. This is accomplished through environmental and community stewardship and through the operation and maintenance of parks and facilities by a reliable, diverse and well-trained workforce/management team. Efficient, effective, and affordable recreational opportunities are provided by the department, often in collaboration with the community and designed to meet the diverse needs of its residents.

(via Milwaukee County parks Website)

If you would like to send friends of the parks some moolah, please send to:

Donate Instructions

Please make your donation check payable to "The Park People of Milwaukee County Inc." and mail the check to:

1845 N. Farwell Ave. Suite 100
Milwaukee, WI 53202

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Green Drinks on the River - Thursday Night @ Cafe Luna!

Join Greener Milwaukee and Cafe Luna Lounge and donate to a great cause!

Now Sign Up on Facebook or Meetup.com/Greener

Hi, this is Ryan Thompson, the Director of Greener Milwaukee. This will happen once a month and will give Green enthusiasts, advocates, artists, growers, and businesses a place to meet socially outside of the educational and more formalized environment of a regular Greener Milwaukee Meetup. AKA this monthly meetup is a place to get drinks, meet friends, and donate to a good cause.

Please note, there will be at least two Greener meetups every month. A social (this one) and an educational one (TBA) Please keep in mind this weekend we are visiting 'Growing Power on 5500 Silver Spring Dr. at 2-4pm (Saturday - super fun!), Growing Power Tour Details

Please stay tuned and look for us on Facebook, Twitter, and around town too.

So if you are asking yourself if you should come or bring a friend, look no further simply by asking yourself this question:

PS If you can't make it send someone who can!

Heart,

Ryan Thompson,
Director & Member
Greener Milwaukee

Innovation Fuels Begins Selling BioDiesel to Customers From Port of Milwaukee Terminal

BQ-9000® Biodiesel Supplier Opens Hub in Midwest US

Milwaukee, WI - May 13, 2009 – Innovation Fuels, the New York based renewable energy company that manufactures, markets, and distributes second-generation biodiesel to customers around the world has announced it has begun selling biodiesel to customers from its Midwestern renewable fuels hub / Port of Milwaukee terminal located on Lake Michigan.

The 312,000 barrel (45,000 metric tons) capacity terminal located on ten (10) acres is the first in the country that is totally dedicated for the sale and distribution of renewable fuels.

Originally built as Shell Oil’s Milwaukee headquarters in the 1950’s and acquired from NuStar Energy L.P. (NYSE:NS), the Innovation Fuels terminal includes a 20,000 square foot warehouse, executive offices and a garage.

John Fox, CEO for Innovation Fuels commented, “The commencement of selling biodiesel via our Milwaukee terminal will significantly lower the cost of our biodiesel to customers in the Great Lakes due to lower transportation charges.”

“We also bring along a mindset of quality at a reasonable price, which is backed by our BQ9000 credentials as a marketer and producer in the Northeast United States,” added Fox. “It is highly advantageous for us to be marketing Milwaukee based biodiesel to customers in Milwaukee and greater Wisconsin as well as to Chicago and the entire Midwestern region.”

“This signifies only the beginning of using this facility as an actual renewable fuels hub in the Midwest,” remarked Richard “Hardy” Sawall, Innovation Fuels SVP for Midwest Operations. “We expect to announce plans for additional capabilities including biodiesel blending very shortly.”

Innovation Fuels’ Milwaukee terminal features existing truck and rail loading infrastructure, with excellent highway access and is served by two Class I railways, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Canadian Pacific Railroad. In addition, the Port of Milwaukee has international shipping access via the St. Lawrence Seaway and can receive river barge cargo via the Mississippi. The facility also has an idled connection to the Westshore petroleum pipeline, which could be used to bring in diesel and gasoline to the terminal for blending with renewable fuels, such as biodiesel and ethanol.

Garland Middendorf, President of Wolf Lake Terminals, Innovation Fuels’ operations partner for the Milwaukee terminal commented, “This is indeed a momentous occasion as we begin to promote and distribute renewable fuels in Milwaukee. Our partnership with Innovation Fuels signifies our commitment to the growth of sustainable energy and to become an industry leader both in the Midwest and across the U.S.”

About Tanco Milwaukee LLC and its affiliates:
Tanco Milwaukee LLC was established by Garland, Chad and Kip Middendorf for the purposes of owning and operating the Milwaukee facility.

Tanco’s affiliated operations consist of four other liquid storage facilities in the Midwest including:

Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana is a 510,000 barrel rail and truck served facility. Established in 1973, Wolf Lake offers Biodiesel production and distribution services as well as a full complement of for hire terminal services.

Tanco Terminals is located at the International Port of Indiana. Constructed in 1978, Tanco is a 292,000 barrel bulk liquid storage facility. It offers access to the Great Lakes and the rest of the world through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Tanco Clark Maritime, LLC is a 248,000 barrel terminal located in the Clark Maritime Center, Jeffersonville, Indiana. It is accessible by truck, rail and barge on the Ohio River.

Tanco Kansas City, LLC is an 180,000 barrel terminal located just outside of Kansas City Missouri on the Missouri river with barge, truck and rail access.
All of the facilities and the company have an impeccable reputation for providing safe, reliable and cost effective storage services.



About Innovation Fuels

With shovel-ready projects in New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin, Innovation Fuels is a leading biodiesel company with a global reach and mission to replace diesel fuel with sustainably produced biodiesel. Innovation Fuels takes a proactive and solution-oriented approach to its business with a focus on fiduciary responsibility, social and environmental stewardship, and community safety. Innovation Fuels currently operates integrated biorefineries within the United States at strategic port locations including New York Harbor and Port of Milwaukee that provide for the supply to regional customers and a network of international partners. Innovation Fuels is also dedicated toward creating green jobs including more than thirty (30) local green jobs at its New York Harbor biorefinery in Newark, NJ. Biodiesel is produced by chemically reacting alcohol with vegetable oils, fats, or greases. Using innovative, proprietary production technology, Innovation Fuels biodiesel is the highest quality at the lowest cost to its customers. The company is also working toward the development of next generation feedstocks including pennycress and algae - all crops that don’t divert resources away from feeding people.



Originally printed at http://www.truck.net/news/3404/109.html

Greener Milwaukee Talks

Hello Folks,

Fearless leader here.

I wanted to open today's post to express gratitude and thanks to both Bucketworks (the world's first health club for the brain) and Spreenker, LLC (a creative and events organization) That being said, let me explain why.

Both have been generous and valuable to both Milwaukee and Greener Milwaukee. These organizations are a fertile flower bed that we will help to grow with both our members and our partnership.

Yesterday both organizations featured Greener Milwaukee as part of their event giving us the opportunity to expose 60 or so people to what it is that we do and to showcase member, Adam Borut's company Eco-hatchery.

I hope those of you that attended learned something, and those that missed it will explore future opportunities to see our members in action working toward a Greater, Greener Milwaukee

Ryan Thompson
GM Director

Water Technology talks with... Rich Meeusen

Imagine a “Silicon Valley of water technology,” where entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, educators, and manufacturers gather to do water research, develop new water products and tackle global freshwater issues.

Richard “Rich” Meeusen and his colleagues think that Milwaukee, WI, can be that place — the world’s “freshwater hub,” as they put it. Meeusen is chairman, president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Badger Meter, the largest producer of water meters in North America. He is also co-chair — with Paul Jones, president and CEO of A.O. Smith Corp., the water heater manufacturer — of the Milwaukee 7 Water Council.

The year-old, 11-member Council (the “7” refers to the seven counties in the Milwaukee region) includes many movers and shakers — such as Carlos Santiago, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce Dick Leinenkugel. The Council’s goal is to establish the Milwaukee region as a global hub for freshwater research, economic development and education.

In a recent phone interview with Water Technology®, Meeusen’s energy and enthusiasm for the Council’s work was infectious. A Milwaukee native with a background in accounting, he joined Badger Meter in 1995, was elected president and CEO in 2002, and was elected chairman in 2004.

Water Technology: Singapore is also taking steps to be, as they call it, a global “hydrohub.” We understand Israel has a similar effort. How would Milwaukee compare to those?

Rich Meeusen: Each has a slightly different approach. Singapore is offering 50 percent tax credits for companies to locate there, and Israel has huge tax credits for water R&D. In Milwaukee, we’re not betting all our chips on public investment. We’re also building infrastructure for water technology companies to collaborate with each other and with academia. The “freshwater” aspect of the research done here will also be somewhat unique. There are lots of schools of oceanic sciences, but few freshwater research institutes.

WT: How would the Silicon Valley concept translate to the world of water?

RM: Think about it: What makes Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley? Every young entrepreneur who wanted to start a computer company there would always rattle off five reasons for doing so.

One was that other computer companies were locating there. Two, there were universities there doing research and graduating skilled people to work in computers. Three, they had a skilled work force. Four, they had a friendly government. And five, they had venture capital.

What we’re building here for water is the same group of reasons. A recent survey found there are 120 companies in the Milwaukee area involved in the water technology sector. Also, five of the 11 largest water technology companies in the world have significant operations here — companies like Veolia, ITT, Pentair, GE Water and Siemens.

Just as important, we have academia here. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Great Lakes Water Institute is the largest research center of its kind on the Great Lakes, and the university is creating a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences out on the lakeshore. Milwaukee is on Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water.

WT: Why are there so many water-related companies in Milwaukee?

RM: In the 1800s, for various reasons, Milwaukee attracted a large number of “wet” heavy industries, like breweries and tanneries, that required a lot of water. But over the years, we lost most of our “wet” heavy industries like the breweries, just as we’ve lost some other heavy manufacturing. But in the meantime, a large number of smaller industries making water-related products had grown up here around those heavy industries.

That’s how Badger Meter got started 104 years ago. Two German immigrants made valves and filters that they sold to the breweries. Then they realized they could make a better water meter, and now that’s 85 percent of our business. We have $300 million in annual sales and 1,200 employees around the world.

The 120 water technology companies in the Milwaukee area have a total of 20,000 employees. There are now 86 key scientists and researchers working on water issues in our region, on everything from water treatment to water law to water engineering.

In 1922, someone said we were a water technology capital … but we were never a city that capitalized on water. Now, we have a great opportunity to do that, because water has taken center stage in the 21st century. Unlike oil, there’s no substitute for water. Water is the new growth industry.

WT: How did the “water hub in Milwaukee” idea get started?

RM: About two years ago, we had a “Eureka!” moment. I was at a meeting at A.O. Smith where their CEO was showing us their flow lab. As we talked, we realized that each of us had had no idea that the other company had a major flow lab. So, since we’re not really competitors, we agreed to share each other’s flow lab facilities.

And then I thought, wow, there are all these companies in the Milwaukee area involved in the water cycle, but almost none of them compete with each other. The only ones that really did compete were GE and Pentair, and even now they have their joint venture, Pentair Residential Filtration.

So I went to the Greater Milwaukee Committee and the seven counties to propose this idea, and they liked it.

WT: Tell us a little about the research part of this.

RM: We already have the university’s Great Lakes Institute, and now we will be building the first School of Freshwater Sciences, which will take that to the next level. We have $800,000 committed to academic internships in water technology, where graduate students can come in and work as interns in water technology companies. We’ve also applied to the National Science Foundation for seed money to start one of their designated “regions of research.”

We’ve already had several water technology seminars here, where company heads of technology meet and share ideas. This August, we’ll be sponsoring a water investment conference, which will attract CEOs of water technology companies.

WT: How would this “water hub” activity affect the point-of-use/point-of-entry water treatment industry?

RM: Some of the work we’re doing here involves detecting water quality in the home, and that could have a huge impact on that industry. A lot of work here is also being done on things like nanofiltration, which shows promise. Another example is that A.O. Smith is doing a lot of research into more water-efficient water heating and is considering the launch of a filtration business. And Pentair Residential Filtration decided to locate its headquarters in Milwaukee.

WT: What’s political and community support been like?

RM: The governor, the mayors, our two US senators, our various legislators — all have been very supportive. We had a press conference recently with Republican and Democratic members of the state legislature, and I’ve never seen cooperation on both sides of the aisle like I’ve seen for this issue.

Also — and this is very important — we have the environmental community represented on the Water Council, and they’ve been involved in this from the very start. We want to grow water businesses, but we want to grow them in an environmentally sustainable way. I think we’ve pulled together a very impressive cross-section of our community.

Article & interview orgianlly printed here: http://www.watertechonline.com/article.asp?IndexID=6637117