Daily Archives: January 11, 2008

Special Libraries Association Announces Green Initiative

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the press release. The Special Libraries Association (SLA), a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners, today announced it will take the first steps and begin efforts to become an environmentally sensitive organization at the … Continue reading →

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Recent posts on Green Car Congress

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Some recent posts at Green Car Congress include: BNSF Railway and Vehicle Projects Develop Experimental Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Switch Locomotive; Locomotive-to-Grid Application Explored California H2 Highway Infrastructure Is Contracting Transport for London Launches Sustainable Freight Plan New Nanostructured Thin Film Shows … Continue reading →

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Recent posts on Biopact

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Some recent highlights over at Biopact include: Researchers make breakthrough in silicon nanowires that convert waste heat into electricity Report: bioenergy key to revive British Columbia’s pulp and paper industry Biofuels advocate wins China’s highest science award U.S. ecological scientists … Continue reading →

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Pa. students make biodiesel fuel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Hagerstown Herald-Mail. Students and staff at the Franklin County Career and Technology Center made biodiesel fuel that successfully powered a tractor-trailer engine Thursday.

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Butter sculpture to meet end in State College

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Centre Daily Times. They promise they won’t eat it — not that they’d want to anyway — but they will run an engine off it. The crown jewel of this year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show … Continue reading →

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Sweet success: Intrepid duo makes a 7,200-kilometre trip from Britain to Timbuktu in a truck powered by chocolate

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Toronto Globe & Mail. When most people think of chocolate, they think of eating a delicious, sweet treat. They don’t think of turning it into biodiesel, putting it into the tank of a truck … Continue reading →

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A win-win situation: Professor looks to build biodiesel plant that could help economic development

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Southern Illinoisian. Associate professor and chemist Yong Gao of Southern Illinois University Carbondale thinks he and his researchers have arrived at a win-win situation. Two chemical processes they patented recently after three years of … Continue reading →

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ADM, Bayer, Daimler Team Up On Jatropha Biodiesel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Environmental Leader. Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bayer CropScience AG and Daimler AG have announced plans to explore jointly the potential for a biodiesel industry based on Jatropha. Jatropha is a drought tolerant wild plant … Continue reading →

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German biodiesel associations see biofuel makers folding amid tax increase

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Forbes. An increase of German fuel taxes on biodiesel at the beginning of the year has led to a slump in demand, bringing hundreds of biodiesel makers to the brink of bankruptcy, die Welt reported, … Continue reading →

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River, lake getting cleaner

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Laura B.

Read the full story in the Southgate News Herald. Thirty-five years of pollution prevention and control has produced dramatic ecological recovery to the Detroit River and western Lake Erie, according to a major binational report.

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