 Stories About: biofuels AND energy AND placemaking
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How bad is peak oil, really?
Would the biosphere care? |
Jon Rynn |
20 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Recently we've had a couple of discussions here at Gristmill concerning various aspects of peak oil; that is, the assertion that very soon (if it hasn't happened already) the global supply of oil will peak, and even though demand is going up, supply will start to come down, so prices will skyrocket. It seems to me that some of the contention in these discussions boils down to the question: would it really be so bad if the oil started running out? After all, we would ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, climate, coal, energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics) |
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Vehicle of change
The Big Green Bus rides again |
Sarah van Schagen |
10 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Witness the Big Green Bus. Hard to miss, even amid the glaring sun and smog at Bonnaroo. I happened upon the crew of Dartmouth students at the festival last year and got just a few minutes to chat with them. This year, I sought them out on the festival grounds and then met up with them again when they rolled into Seattle last weekend.During their 12,000-mile trek this summer, the Big Green Busriders are stopping at various events and landmarks ranging from a Doobie ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, education, energy, green living, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics) |
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When Dreams Become Reality
How a grassroots biodiesel group can show the way for others |
Erik Hoffner |
15 Dec 2006 |
Soapbox |
| The way that Rob Del Bueno backed into the world of biofuel almost by accident, as told in the article "Small Potatoes," is emblematic of the way most folks get engaged in grassroots biofuel development. It starts with a desire to use a renewable fuel to power your life long before a GMO-happy megacorporation was going to start reliably supplying you with it, and then it ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, energy, placemaking (all these topics) |
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The Doctor Is in ... Your Tank
An interview with Seattle biodiesel distributor Dan Freeman |
Yolanda Crous |
07 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Dan Freeman. As a kid, Dan Freeman experimented with using alcohol to run lawnmowers and minibikes. (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for that parent-son conversation.) These days, he runs Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuel Werks, a Seattle-based biodiesel retail and distribution company with customers ranging from school districts to organic farmers to concerned individuals who want ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, business, cars, energy, interview, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics) |
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Trouble at Muscle Beach?
Grassroots biodiesel operations contend with industrial sand-kickers |
Emily Gertz |
07 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Can grassroots biodiesel projects deliver a steady supply of safely produced, high-quality fuel? Stickin' it to the man. Photo: Current TV Greg Hopkins, president of U.S. Biofuels, Inc., a mid-sized producer of biodiesel refined almost entirely from local Georgia waste poultry fat, isn't sure. U.S. Biofuels recently relocated its sole production plant in Rome, Ga., to a new 2 ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Small Potatoes
Using grease and other goodies, small biodiesel producers are making a big difference |
Emily Gertz |
07 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| If you live in a city of any size, you've likely seen them out there: boxy little '80s-era foreign cars, bumpers adorned with pro-ecology and anti-war slogans, and references to "grease." Even the fumes they emit may smell different: literally like French fries, in some cases; like generic used vegetable oil in others. Foh sizzle my fuel-izzle. Photo: iStockph ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Fill 'er Up
A Grist special series on biofuels |
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04 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh These days, ethanol is praised as the whiz-bang cure-all for our energy ills. And maybe all the sweet talk will cause this "new" fuel to forget that America dumped her for oil in the early 20th century. Oil's just so ... ew all of a sudden. We may finally be ready to return to our first love, an energy source that's been by our side in some form or another since Neolithic times. Oil was too high-ma ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, energy, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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The Pledge of Reason
Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign |
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23 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Tuesday, 23 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. Yesterday evening, the Road to Detroit team of organizers joined up with our brave Drive the Future we ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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What's All the Bus About?
Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign |
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22 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Monday, 22 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. In the madness of classic cars and signs reading "Burn Out," "Light Her Up," a ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Biodiesel: it's what you make it out of
Replacing fossil fuels with biodiesel may do more harm than good |
biodiversivist |
19 Aug 2005 |
Gristmill |
| I remember when real environmentalists drove smoking VW vans with bumper stickers that said stuff like, 'You can't call yourself an environmentalist if you eat meat.' They didn't get the best gas mileage, but hey, you could do worse. They were replaced by the forest-green Subaru Outback (Eddy Bower edition if you were really cool), seen by the dozens in any REI parking lot. These are presently being eclipsed by the ubiquitous Prius. But, there is stiff competition fro ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, consumerism, energy, hybrids, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Mind Over Motor
Dispatches from a student-run clean-car campaign |
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19 Aug 2005 |
Dispatches |
| The Road to Detroit campaign is run by 11 student organizers from around the U.S., one big, beautiful biodiesel and veggie-oil bus, and many friends and allies. Road to Detroit is a campaign of Energy Action, a student and youth clean-energy and global-warming coalition. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Friday, 19 Aug 2005 DETROIT, Mich. We know you know about fuel-efficient cars. You may even own one. Peak oil, the rising price at the pump, an ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, cars, Dispatches, education, energy, fuel efficiency, grassroots activism, Michigan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Grease Be With You
Advice on converting to biodiesel |
Umbra Fisk |
10 Oct 2002 |
Ask Umbra |
| Umbra, I own a diesel VW Golf, which I bought thinking it was a better choice for the environment than a gasoline engine. Therefore, I was disappointed to read your message that diesel is probably a worse choice. However, you didn't talk at all about biodiesel. Can you give us a rundown on this fuel -- how to get it, how it may be beneficial, and what you might have to do to ensure your car can run on it safely? Thank ... |
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| Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, biofuels, cars, energy, food and agriculture, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics) |
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