WVO Bus to Teach Sustainability Lesson

John Davis

Artists and activists Graham Evans and Emily Nelson are getting ready to tour the Northeast and Midwest, teaching people how to grow and cook their own food in a sustainable way… in a sustainable set of wheels. The pair and their Nourish(meant) project will be refurbishing a 14-passenger school bus that will run on waste vegetable oil, have a kitchen …

biofuels, Miscellaneous

Greenhunter Energy’s Stock Sees Huge Jump

John Davis

The stock in a company that seemed to be wiped out by Hurricane Ike last year has taken a dramatic jump. While Texas-based renewable energy company Greenhunter Energy Inc won’t say anything about Tuesday’s 62 percent surge in price, this story in the Wall Street Journal tries to clear up some of the mystery of why Greenhunter closed at $1.86: …

Miscellaneous

“Funky Fresh Flex Fuel” Wins Online Ethanol Contest

Joanna Schroeder

Thousands of people across the country defined “What is renewable to you?” when they selected the video, “Funky Fresh Flex Fuel” created by Chip McAfee from Arizona as the winner of the E85 Flex-Fuel Challenge. The contest was launched by the Renewable Fuels Association in early March to get a new generation of Americans, mainly college students, engaged in the …

E85, Environment, Ethanol, Ethanol News, Miscellaneous, RFA, Video

Clinton at Ethanol Summit 2009: Save the Trees

Joanna Schroeder

The Ethanol Summit 2009 is in full swing in Sao Paulo, Brazil with President Bill Clinton kicking off the festivities yesterday. His main message was that while biofuels are an important element in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, it cannot happen at the continued destruction of rainforests. In an article published by Reuters yesterday, Clinton was quoted as saying, …

biofuels, conferences, Environment, Ethanol, Indirect Land Use, Miscellaneous

A Bigger Bang for the Buck: Bioelectricty or Biofuels?

Joanna Schroeder

ScienceDaily.com broke a story today about an article that will published in the May 22, 2009 issue of Science. The article focuses on what is more efficient – converting biomass to fuel or converting biomass to electricity? The study authors wrote in the online edition of the journal that the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity rather …

biomass, Energy, Environment, Miscellaneous, Research

Vote in the Green Choice Awards 2009

Joanna Schroeder

Earth Day 2009 may have come and gone but organizations doing great things for the environment happens all year long. The organization “Great Nonprofits” wants you to vote for their Green Choice Awards which honors local nonprofit environmental organizations that are doing great things in your neighborhood, community or the world. The environmental organization (entrees must be for nonprofit associations) …

Environment, Miscellaneous

California Motorists Fill Up With Cellulosic Ethanol

Joanna Schroeder

In what might be one of the first deals of its kind, Pearson Fuels, a company installing “alternative fuels stations” across the state of California, has inked a deal with AE Biofuels, Inc. to supply cellulosic ethanol for its E85 and other ethanol fuel blends. Pearson Fuels, based in San Diego was the first company to build an E85 station …

Biodiesel, Cellulosic, E85, Ethanol, Miscellaneous

Eco-Sustainable City Plants Eco-Sustainable Feedstock

John Davis

America’s first eco-sustainable city is taking its first steps toward sustainable energy. Destiny, Florida, as you might remember from my February 27, 2009 Domestic Fuel podcast, is a 41,000-acre community founded in 2005 in South Central Florida. Among the city’s eco-friendly features is The Sustainable Energy Farm that produces power from biodiesel, ethanol, solar and wind sources for companies that …

Biodiesel, biomass, Ethanol, Miscellaneous, News, Solar, Wind