The T blog is currently featuring a short profile of David Selig—eco-innovator, die-hard surfer, Red Hook resident, owner of the restaurants Rice and ñ, special man-friend of my former boss-lady Cecilia Dean, and one of the more interesting and laid-back dudes I've met in New York. Above, from a previous article in the Times, David is shown filtering used cooking oil for use as fuel in the Rice delivery van.

He just opened a solar-powered taco stand on the beach at Rockaway...looks like our weekend plans are taking shape.

Click here to read the interview.

Photos by G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times