Mooving On Down The Line? Amtrak Testing Beef Fat Biodiesel on Texas to Oklahoma Route

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Published April 21, 2010 at 11:30 a.m.
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photo: Amtrak Amtrak is the latest company to try to put waste products of factory farming to use as fuel. Smart Planet reports that for the next year Amtrak will test biodiesel made from beef tallow on it's Heartland Flyer route from Fort Worth, Texas to Oklahoma City ...

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Cows Fed Biodiesel Waste and Beef Gets Recalled

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 4:41 p.m.
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Image credit: Grist It may sound strange, but cutting into the industrial feed business—in which companies sell their unwanted byproducts to feedlots as food—is a competitive prospect. One of the latest entrants are biodiesel producers who want to sell glycerin for use in livestock feed ...

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The Fuel Movie: From Used Grease to Algae Gasoline (Video)

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Published Jan. 6, 2010 at 9:53 a.m.
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Image credit: Mother Board What do you do once you've traveled across America on used grease? Why, you start all over again using algae, of course. Many years back I bought Josh Tickell's classic book—From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank. This was long before the days of Whole Foods going biodiesel, or ...

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Can Biodiesel Be Green? The Sustainable Biodiesel Summit

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Published Dec. 26, 2009 at 10:57 a.m.
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Image credit: Sustainable Biodiesel Summit Biodiesel is one of those funny things. Back when TreeHugger first started, Daryl Hannah was waxing lyrical about the benefits of biodiesel, and Whole Foods was going biodiesel. And many of us greenies thought this was nothing but a good thing. Fast forward a few years, and despite ...

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Biodiesel Motorcycle Attempts Circumnavigation of Australia

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Published Oct. 8, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.
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With more than a touch of irony, a motorcyclist who spent about 20 years as an off-shore oil driller is demonstrating that there are alternatives to fossil fuels. Paul Carter, now a best seller author, last month leapt aboard a motorbike (designed and made by staff and students at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, to see how it copes with over 20,000 kilometres ( 124, 200 miles , whoops! 12,420 miles) of travel as he does a lap of the country. According to ABC ...

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Man Builds 100 MPG Lotus Replica that Runs on Homebrewed Biodiesel

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Published Sept. 25, 2009 at 6:36 p.m.

Photo: Kinetic Vehicles Kudos to Kinetic Vehicles! ...

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Off Road Vehicles vs Wildlife: Cape Hatteras Under Threat

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Published Aug. 29, 2009 at 8:54 a.m.
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Image credit: Audubon NC I've never really understood the attraction of "off roading" - in fact, until I started brewing biodiesel with some Off Road Vehicle (ORV) enthusiasts, I didn't even really know what it was. I am, for the most part, a believer in personal freedom but, like Lloyd's take on ATV's and the environment, I find it hard to see how off roading can be done without significant ecological damage (I'm sure my biodiesel buddies will disagree!) ... Whether or not "sustainable off

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Karnataka State Women's University in India Creates Bio-Diesel Park

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Published Aug. 13, 2009 at 7:02 p.m.
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Image via: sparkrobot on Flickr.com The Karnataka State Women's University will be sharing some of its barren, unused land with farmers in the area starting this fall to create a bio-diesel park, reports the Times of India. The park will be used to grow trees specifically to make biodiesel ...

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Bike-Powered Organic Produce Delivery: Harvest Cycle

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Published July 27, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
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Image credit: Harvest Cycle We TreeHuggers are big fans of local, sustainably grown produce. We're particularly big fans of CSAs and other forms of produce delivery as a great way to consolidate trips and cut down on those last few food miles. (The rooftop hydroponic farm delivering by biodiesel remains a personal favorite!) In fact we are such big fans that we started a list over in the forums for anyone to share their ...

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A Nation of Hitchhikers

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Published June 2, 2009 at 9:25 a.m.
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Image by Wikimedia As the American Automotive Fabric takes a little "T-Out" from its regularly scheduled programming, we may want to prepare our last bidey-byes to the notion that jumping into a personally-owned powered metal box - gas, electric, biodiesel, whatever - every time we need a quart of milk is going to reliably continue ... With our sweet dreams and driving machines in pieces on the ground, a backup system is clearly required ... One is hitchhiking, which relies on the kindness of

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