Summer 2008

Sustainability

Moringa: The New Jatropha

By Dr K. Shaine Tyson

Moringa Oleifera, the "tree of life," is broadly grown across four continents--Asia, Oceania, Africa and Central and South America. I am fascinated by this crop, because it can produce food and fuel; it is a potential new crop for.......[MORE]

Conferences

SBS '08 gets the scoop

By Tycho Dan

The Sustainable Biodiesel Summit 2008 was more momentous than ever this year with fantastic speakers, great local food, and some interesting surprises. Over 150 eager sustainable biodiesel producers, researchers, advocates, and consumers converged in Orlando, Florida for two days........[MORE]

Golden Meniscus / Sustainability

the monster at the end of sustainable biodiesel

By Kumar Plocher

What is a fair price for sustainable biodiesel? That's a question that I've been thinking about a lot lately. After years of wondering, and with help from some friends (Lyle, JohnO, thank you!), I finally know the answer, but.......[MORE]

Spanking Ester

lunch matters

By Leif Forer

Dear Ester~ What is sustainable biodiesel? Sustainability is generally broken down into three categories: social, economic and ecological. Believers in the status quo argue that economic sustainability is the only category that matters, while environmentalists hold ecology above all.......[MORE]

Sustainability

Composting: Solution?

By Alison Dethoff

In 2007, student workers produced more than 2,000 gallons of fuel for campus vehicle use. Our success, however, comes with a problem: we have been struggling to gain control of an ever-growing supply of glycerine. ....[MORE]

Sustainability

Dumping Glycerine for Fun and for Profit

By Lindsay Vacek

In September 2007, an anonymous call to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources reported a sea of dead fish floating in Belle Fountain Ditch, a tributary to the waters of the state. ....[MORE]

Sustainability

From the Flower to the Fuel Tank

By Frankie Abralind

"We had rigged a tractor to start on diesel and shut down on diesel, but when we were working it we ran it on pure sunflower oil, 20 years ago. [Dad] was always trying to learn as we were going. He was just trying to make his operation more profitable, back in the first fuel crunch of the late 70's and early 80's,".....[MORE]

Feedstocks

Algae: The New Snake Oil

By Lyle Estill

Several years ago, while having lunch with some professors from N.C. State, I was told that a graduate seminar class in chemistry could easily extract oil from algae, but lacked a $500.00 centrifuge to get it done.....[MORE]