Alex Lantsberg

Alex Lantsberg is the chair of the SFPUC CAC Wastewater Subcommittee, a formal Citizens Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Lantsberg is also the co-chair of the Alliance for a Clean Waterfront, a project of the Earth Island Institute. According to its website, the Alliance is a coalition of twenty-three "environmental and community organizations that first joined forces in 1997 to address the impacts of accelerated development along San Francisco’s shoreline. ... The Alliance’s mission is promote the protection and sustainability of San Francisco's water resources by advocating for: Reduction of sewage overflows and polluted stormwater runoff; Implementation of sound wastewater treatment alternatives; Increased water recycling and conservation; Diversion of stormwater flows for beneficial uses; Cleanup of contaminated soil, groundwater, water bodies and waterways; Prevention of soil and water pollution; Environmental justice; and, the Preservation and restoration of aquatic and wetland wildlife habitat and other environmental restoration."

Chez Sludge
The Food Rights Network released a major investigative report on July 9, 2010 titled: Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters. It examines collusion between the Chez Panisse Foundation and the SFPUC based on an extensive open records investigation of the SFPUC internal files. (To view the internal documents see: SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline.)

CAC Members

 * Jennifer Clary
 * Alex Lantsberg (Chair)
 * Jack Lendvay
 * David Pilpel
 * Laurie Schoeman
 * Laura Tam
 * Judy West

Related SourceWatch articles

 * SFPUC
 * Ed Harrington
 * Francesca Vietor
 * sewage sludge
 * biosolids