Alvin Duskin

Alvin Duskin is a San Francisco manufacturer of women's clothing, employing Betsey Johnson. He launched a failed 1971 ballot measure (Proposition "T") to limit the height of buildings in San Francisco to 72 feet.[1] With Jerry Mander and Warren Hinckle, exposed Lamar Hunt's proposal for sale and development of Alcatraz Island.[2][3][4][5]

Duskin, a Stanford alumnus,[6] was the president of Emerson College, a free school at Stanford, later worked with the New School started by San Francisco Opposition.[7] In January 1964 Duskin was one of the founders of SDS New School.[8] The founders also included the journalists Saul Landau, and Bob Scheer.[9]

Duskin collaborated with Saul Alinsky, his neighbor in Carmel, on a school for organizers.[10][11]

He later worked at the Senate Energy Committee and in 1981,[12] Alvin Duskin, with investors and ranchers in the area, Altamont Pass Wind Farm construction began, with the 15 percent federal tax credit incentivize for wind projects following the oil crisis of the 1970s.[13][14]

He drafted legislation to amend the windfall profits tax act that created the first tax break for wind and solar energy. Following the passage of that bill, Mr. Duskin worked with Huey Johnson, then the California Secretary of Resources, to develop wind turbines at Pacheco and Altamont Passes. Alvin was responsible for implementing new wind turbines that were the first windmills to be constructed anywhere in the world. Alvin Duskin uses his creative energies in his newest business venture, Corigin LLC, implementing a form of carbon sequestration, the business of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, with the use of “bio char.”[15]

In 2002, SOX Systems CEO Alvin Duskin licensed solid oxide fuel cell technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, began developing neighborhood fueling stations for hydrogen-powered vehicles, hiring an engineering team, and moved into the Tri-Valley Technology Enterprise Center at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[16]

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References

  1. ↑ "1971 high-rise hater Duskin still standing tall". sfgate.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lamar Hunt & John Ertola on Alcatraz - Bay Area Television Archive". diva.sfsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  3. ↑ Company, Ocean View Publishing. "The History of Alcatraz". www.alcatrazhistory.com. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  4. ↑ "The Unselling of Alcatraz - FoundSF". www.foundsf.org. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  5. ↑ "Warren Hinckle: journalist, editor, publisher, iconoclast /". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  6. ↑ "Alvin Duskin - FORCES OF NATURE". FORCES OF NATURE. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  7. ↑ "Students for a Democratic Society Bulletin — Vol. 4, No. 1". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  8. ↑ http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/White%20Magazines%20And%20Articles/Tocsin/03-04-64.pdf
  9. ↑ "Students for a Democratic Society Bulletin — Vol. 4, No. 1". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  10. ↑ Shaping San Francisco. "Ecology Emerges: Alvin Duskin". Retrieved 16 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  11. ↑ Institute, Resource Renewal (2014-07-24), Alvin Duskin: A Sense of Purpose, retrieved 2018-05-30
  12. ↑ "Sutori". www.sutori.com. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  13. ↑ Shaping San Francisco. "Ecology Emerges: Alvin Duskin". Retrieved 16 May 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ↑ Institute, Resource Renewal (2014-07-24), Alvin Duskin: A Sense of Purpose, retrieved 2018-05-30
  15. ↑ "Alvin Duskin - FORCES OF NATURE". FORCES OF NATURE. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  16. ↑ "Three companies begin operations at TTEC site". Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2002-01-18. Retrieved 2018-05-30.


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