Yesterday David shipped a biodiesel plant over to Carolina Biodiesel in Durham. That in itself is not that unusual.  We ship plants all the time.  When David is not shipping tankage, he is sending off designs, and when he is not sending of designs, he is walking through prospective facilities with...

This instructable has a lot of great advice on making your own biodiesel. You should learn as much as possible about the process since it can be dangerous. However, it's a great way to use waste vegetable oil (WVO) and reduce pollution. This type of Processor is called an appleseed processor. It use...

Journalist, goat herder, and Sierra contributor Doug Fine hits Leno tonight to talk about going green and his new book, Farewell, My Subaru. This onetime suburbanite now grows much of his own food (at "Funky Butte Ranch"), drives on vegetable oil, and generally makes an adventure out of lo...

A couple of years ago when our family spent time in and around Jemez Springs, New Mexico, I met several local residents who aspired to “live off the grid.” By “the grid,” they meant the electricity grid to which most of us in the “developed world” are connected ev...

Tomorrow is Earth Day and this year, for the first time in a long time, there seems to be a real interest and a real push to make something happen. Maybe it's that gas is heading toward four dollars a gallon faster than OJ leaving Las Vegas. Maybe it's that more and more corporations are touting how...

The Phoenix area's only source of retail Waste Vegetable Oil Biodiesel is in jeopardy over a zoning issue. Please visit the link below to learn more and contact the City of Chandler AZ to encourage them to let them operate while this is settled. original news source...

Yesterday we held our annual meeting at the West End Wine Bar in Chapel Hill. About sixty members showed up for a Coop update. Here is the talk I threw into the mix: Project Breakdown: Where the Coop Begins and Industrial Ends At this week’s staff meeting, after our administrative crew had lef...

As some of you might remember, we traversed through T or C last year and taped a bunch with Mikey and Wendy of Green Acre Hotsprings. On our way over to Virginia, we have stopped by again to catch up and meet some new folks hacking out here in the desert. The photo above is us taping an interview wi...

vPIP As some of you might remember, we traversed through T or C last year and taped a bunch with Mikey and Wendy of Green Acre Hotsprings. On our way over to Virginia, we have stopped by again to catch up and meet some new folks hacking out here in the desert. The photo above is us taping an intervi...

This has been an outward facing week for me. When I face inward, I tend to be on janitorial duty. When I face outward, I talk to the world. Monday’s staff meeting led me into a day of teaching at the Solar Center’s Renewable Energy Diploma Series. Then to a NC Biomass Council meeting. Th...