Sustainable Fuel Co-op, Seattle (SFC) is a consumer cooperative of local community members who seek to create an alternative energy community which upholds the highest environmental, social, and sustainable standards possible and practical.  We desire to provide our members and the greater community with access to sustainably sourced biodiesel and support the development of additional sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based fossil fuels.

Biodiesel got a bad reputation when it became a global commodity responsible for deforestation, competing with land for food, and adding to global warming; something it should never have been.  SFC was born out of a desire to participate in putting biodiesel back on the right track and promote the best of biodiesel -- a locally produced, environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuel.

The Environmental Protection Agency defines sustainability as "the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations' abilities to meet their own needs."   Like the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, we believe that sustainable fuels are those fuels that are produced in such a way as to better our environment and our economy. Sustainable biodiesel and sustainable fuel is:

• Locally grown, produced, and consumed -- to the greatest degree possible and practical.
• Derived from waste product such as waste oil or agricultural by-products (e.g. -- soy oil produced as a by-product of feed-stock production) OR
  
• Derived from non-food crops grown on non-arable land (land otherwise unsuitable for farming).
   

SFC is committed to the betterment of our society through better fuel. We believe that sustainable fuel production can decrease our dependence upon fossil fuels and foreign oil, reduce global warming, promote land restoration and conservation, and provide an economic and environmental benefit to all in our community.

Please join us in creating an alternative!