{"id":1670,"date":"2005-10-08T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/08\/green-beer-and-blue-skies\/"},"modified":"2005-10-08T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T14:53:00","slug":"green-beer-and-blue-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/green-beer-and-blue-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Green&#8221; Beer and Blue Skies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From BeerAdvocate.com (a site I&#8217;ll definitely have to frequent more) <a href=\"http:\/\/beeradvocate.com\/news\/stories_read\/f-570554\/\">comes news<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.hood-river.or.us\/\">Hood River, OR<\/a>, brewer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullsailbrewing.com\/default.cfm\">Full Sail<\/a> will participate in the town&#8217;s drive to become one of the state&#8217;s leading communities in renewable power development. The town&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodrivernews.com\/News%20stories\/74_news_4.htm\">Blue Sky program<\/a> should be &#8220;a natural fit&#8221; for the locally-owned brewery: According to brewmaster Jamie Emmerson,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a company, we treat the waste from the brewing process before it goes into the city\u2019s sewer. 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