CMU Graduates Turn Pittsburgh's Brownfields to Green

Andrew Butcher, Matthew Ciccone and Chris Koch, all three recent graduates of the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy, have joined Nathaniel Doyno, head of Steel City Biofuels, in an effort to grow energy-producing crops on vacant land. 

The group plans to use former industrial sites and abandoned residential lots, left fallow by their previous occupants, to grow crops such as sunflowers, switchgrass and poplar trees. They hope that by using these alternative sources of bio-diesel, food-grade corn will not have to be channeled into fuel production. 

The entire article can be found in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800495-28.stm.