Rainwater Capture, CO2 Recovery, Wastewater to Energy
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Learn about the permeable parking lot, CO2 recovery efforts, and more at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company with Mandi McKay, their Director of Sustainability.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Mandy McKay is back on the show. She is the director of sustainability at Sierra Nevada |
| 0:21.6 | Brewing Company where she leads a bunch of |
| 0:23.8 | honestly of incredible initiatives to reduce waste carbon emissions and as you'll |
| 0:28.7 | see today close the loop and capture things that would have been waste streams that now become a resource for the company. |
| 0:36.0 | And you know, moving into a new house here at the Epic Homestead, I've been thinking a lot about this, |
| 0:41.0 | Mandy, I just got a new roof redone we've got solar up there |
| 0:43.9 | now it's not turned on yet I'm waiting for the inspection but even just the roof I |
| 0:48.9 | noticed I put on a particular type of roof called TPO and it's very slick and water runs very easily |
| 0:57.1 | off of it and it's colder than the average roof. |
| 1:01.2 | It's a cool roof technology so it seems to condense water more readily, |
| 1:05.0 | and that water runs off of it more readily. And so I thought even where we don't get rain, I mean, |
| 1:10.0 | in San Diego, we get maybe 10 inches a year, 9-10. I'm going up in the morning and I'm like, I think I can condense at least four or five gallons a day off the roof. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, you probably could. That's so cool. That's really awesome. And like you said, even in a place where rain isn't something that you think of as like a resource necessarily, because it just doesn't happen very often. |
| 1:33.0 | It's incredible what can be done with building materials and just design. |
| 1:39.0 | And I know we're going to get there later, but I'll be excited to talk more about our lead platinum brewery |
| 1:46.8 | But that's really cool. I'm glad to hear you're investing in those things and seeing how it works |
| 1:51.2 | Yeah, it's fascinating. This is the first time owning a home, first time doing any of these projects, and it almost feels |
| 1:56.1 | like I'm stumbling into these little serendipities, because I wouldn't have really known about |
| 2:00.8 | what I just said about that particular roofing technology. |
| 2:03.0 | I chose it because it was a good roof. |
| 2:05.0 | I didn't necessarily choose it to get the water off of it, but it turns out that's the secondary effect. |
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