Carbon Dioxide emissions in the states are down. The government estimates that between 2007 and 2009, carbon emissions will be down by a whopping nine percent. This is the equivalent of shutting down 400 coal plants for a year. This is good news and it’s real. Now the bad news. The reason for the decline [...]
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Greenhouse Gases Dive in US
Posted in Clean Vehicles, Energy Solutions, Sustainability, Wave Energy, biodiesel, biomass, ethanol, hydrogen, solar, wind on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS CLEANING UP
Posted in Clean Vehicles, Sustainability, biodiesel, hydrogen, solar on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lynx bus service is available from the Orlando Airport. It was very convenient for me when I arrived back in Orlando because the 41 bus travels right up route 436 to Altamonte Springs. I had a three block walk and the trip cost me a dollar. Lynx is going to be a cleaner ride soon [...]
Biodiesel Feedstock Workshop in St. Lucie County August 27
Posted in Conferences, biodiesel on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The St. Lucie County Extension Office (U of F IFAS) will conduct a workshop exploring the potential for biodiesel feedstocks appropriate to that area of the state. For information and registration click here.
Speakers will discuss the domestic and international biodiesel industry and provide information on feedstocks such as sunflower, jatropha and algae. The biodiesel initiatives [...]
Public and Private investments Building Green Jobs
Posted in Energy Solutions, Sustainability, Wave Energy, biodiesel, wind on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The July-August edition of Audubon Magazine has an article by Barry Yeoman called Work Plan. Mr Yeoman tells the story how Newton, Iowa is transitioning from high employment (Maytag Washing Machine factory) to recession (Maytag bought out and factory closed 2006) to new era green companies with jobs expanding. The Newton Transformation Council saw [...]
St. Johns County Producing Biodiesel Fuel
Posted in biodiesel on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I read that Lee County, Florida was thinking about making biodiesel but St. Johns County appears to be the first in the state to make their own. At the biodiesel workshop in early October we heard from Ray Inman, who is the one-man Biodiesel Department at St. Johns County. St. Johns is now [...]
Jatropha in Florida
Posted in biodiesel on July 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Another environmental issue related to production of ethanol and biodiesel is how much water will be needed: water for growing the agrofuel crops and water for processing them. This issue is reduced to nearly no effect when jatropha seeds are the raw material for biodiesel. Jatropha trees can evidently [...]
More info on Farm to Fuel Summit
Posted in biodiesel, ethanol on June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Details on the biofuel conference to be held in Orlando on August 30 by the Florida Department of Agriculture can be found on their website here.
Craig Williams
Biodiesel Progress in Brevard County
Posted in biodiesel, biomass on April 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
You may be interested in Brevard Biodiesel, a small group exploring the use of biodiesel in Volkswagen Jettas.
Check out their website here.
Frank Leslie
