Tuesday, November 29, 2005

[Biodiesel] Citizens Asked to Turn Turkey Grease Into Biofuel Source: KVOA.com, Tucson, AZ, 11/25/05. You've roasted your holiday turkey and drained off some of the juices and fat for making gravy. Or you've deep-fried a delicious bird in a vat of cooking oil. So how do you get rid of the frying oil or the gooey brown liquid left in the gunk-encrusted roasting pan? Most holiday cooks will pour it down the drain or in the garbage, but a Tucson-based company has another idea for local cooks: hand it over for recycling. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News] 12:23:08 PM Google It!    [Garbage] Waste to Energy: Time to Reconsider? Now that Mayor Bloomberg has been re-elected for a second and final term, his administration can once again focus on an issue that was placed on the back burner during the campaign: garbage. [Source: WNYC] 12:17:03 PM Google It!    [Recycling] Art exhibit features discarded materials as EPA commemorates America Recycles Month (Pa.). A unique exhibit featuring art created exclusively from discarded and recycled materials pulled from the streets of Philadelphia opened today as part of EPA's celebration of America Recycles Month. The exhibit, featuring work from Robert Scott Willis, an environmental artist from Philadelphia, is on display in the Public Information Center of EPA’s mid-Atlantic office, 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia. [U.S. EPA Trash and Recycling News] 12:13:04 PM Google It!    [Ethanol] A kernel of energy innovation has ethanol industry popping Corn-based fuel is becoming the United States' front-runner alternative to imported oil. [Environmental Health News] 12:11:10 PM Google It!    [Mercury] Researchers find easier test for mercury University of Illinois researchers have developed an easier test for toxic mercury in the environment, a problem found in fish caught in some Illinois lakes and streams, among other things. [Source: Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette] 11:50:56 AM Google It!    [Fuel cells] Hydrogen on the Highway: Driving a Fuel-Cell Car Hydrogen power may be in the distant future for America, but it's making the wheels of Jon Spallino's Honda zip down southern California's freeways now. [NPR Topics: Environment] 11:42:46 AM Google It!    [Biodiesel] Biodiesel Buddies Gas is still hovering around two dollars a gallon in parts of the state. Even though they are dropping, the prices can still be frustrating, so one group of people decided to pass the pump completely. About a dozen guys across Johnson County said au revoir unleaded, adios ethanol, see ya supreme but they will never wave bye bye to biodiesel. [Source: KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids IA] 11:07:05 AM Google It!    [Biodiesel] Man uses vegetable oil to power his vehicles The exhaust from most diesel engines smells like diesel. Justin Keiffer's 1984 Volkswagen Rabbit smells like doughnuts. A 2002 Carson City-Crystal (MI) High School graduate, Keiffer, 21, first became interested in biodiesel fuel when writing a paper on the subject in teacher Mike Steere's high school class. [Source: MLive.com] 10:57:49 AM Google It!    [Green building] US Green Building Council launches 1st online training course The U.S. Green Building Council has launched its first Web-based training course to educate members of the building industry about professional accreditation requirements under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. [Source: Waste News] 10:55:19 AM Google It!    [Green building] Museum deemed LEEDer in energy, design savings considered The Children's Discovery Museum in Normal, IL has done something others are only hoping to achieve. It's the first children's museum in the nation to earn a silver rating in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design from the U.S. Green Building Council. [Source: Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph] 10:52:56 AM Google It!    [Renewable energy] BP Alternative Energy: It's a Start The reality of "Beyond Petroleum" is finally catching up to perception. On Monday, BP announced the launch of BP Alternative Energy, a new business unit that will manage BP's investments in solar, wind, hydrogen, and combined-cycle-gas-turbine power generation, which could amount to $8 billion over the next decade, the company says. [Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward] 10:26:47 AM Google It!    [Garbage] Trash and the tribes Nearly every reservation faces problems with non-Indians dumping stripped vehicles, household and commercial waste, drug lab contaminated equipment and even human bodies. [Environmental Health News] 10:00:21 AM Google It!

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