Brain Food is a staple for all growing and searching minds. The 3 gentlemen pictured have worked at the State’s Land Grant University in Gainesville for a collective 132.5 years. On the left is Don Post who is a Council Board Member and was the Council’s first Chairman (2005-2008) guiding the young group of water and energy experts. Don was at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation for 33 years and knows wood from A-Z. A feedstock type of guy. He is part of his son Pat Post’s Southern Fuelwood in Newberry, FL, where manufacturing of wood-derived products takes place. Next to him is Dr. Gordon M. Prine who came to UF’s Agronomy Dept. in 1958 and although now retired after 45 years still has an office in Newall Hall and brings in royalties for the University through his ryegrass cultivar releases. His best cultivar to date is called “Jumbo.” Gordon worked in Energy Crops as the New Crops Agronomist for many of those years researching cropping systems for energy cane, elephant grass and Leucaena at Green Acres and the Dairy Research Unit in hague and in Polk County. Finally there is the venerable Dr. Alex Green. Dr. Green came to UF’s College of Engineering in 1963 and is also still at work at the age of 94, on his micro-pyrolyzer system design which has just been sent to the Quincy UF/IFAS Research and Education Center for testing by Dr. Nick Comerford. Green Liquid and Gas Technologies is the name of his company and we hope to include a Field Day visit to Quincy as part of the Wood-to-Energy Outreach in 2012. The three were together at a Council meeting in 2008 at the NRCS State Office in Gainesville for this picture. The Council will propose to the City and American Renewables that the new power plant be named “Green Gordon Post” since we believe that the origin of responsible growth and development comes from the minds and praxis of good men.
“Spare me the sentimental love that tells me that what I do and what I am does not matter” – Richard John Neuhaus.