Biofuel Information

The seed of a tropical plant called jatropha plant is fueling Air New Zealand’s planes started with Boeing 747-400, saving money and the Earth. For two hours, pilots tested the oil, in a 50-50 blend with conventional jet fuel in one of the four Rolls-Royce engines powering a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, the first test flight [...]

I’m a little bit blown away.  My daughter Jessalyn just published an issue of g-think for her New York advertising firm.
Here on Energy Blog she has occasionally sparred with the childless Tarus, founder of OpenNMS.  For years I have referred to my four “unsustainable children,” and while that always gets a laugh, Jess has persistently  [...]

Forget living in skyscrapers – we should be living in trees! That seems to be the mentality of a group of researchers in southern Germany who have built the makings of what will be the first tower made from hundreds of living, breathing plants.

The structure, although mostly zinc-coated steel platforms for now, is a staggering [...]

It may be a shock to most people to learn that Forbes Magazine’s “Green Company Of The Year” also funds lobby groups that question climate change, has pled guilty to killing migratory birds in 5 states, and is also the world’s largest publicly traded oil and natural gas company in the world. That’s right, Forbes [...]

www.greenpeace.org.uk : While biofuels could make a small contribution in the battle against climate change, it could in fact do more harm than good. If rainforests are cut down to make way to grow ‘green fuels’, it will not only destroy homes for animals like the orang-utans, this will also be catastrophic for the climate [...]

As much as many of us try and cut down on paper, there are some industries that simply cannot. Some jobs require sketchpads, some require grid paper, and some people just need a handy planner. Now, Barnes & Noble, along with Sterling Publishing, has come up with an environmentally friendly solution for those people who [...]

Everyone knows drinking bottled water is a waste of unnecessary resources, and since so many college students drink bottled water, a few years ago Brita decided to reach out and start FilterForGood in order to get people – students mostly – to switch over to reusable bottles and Brita filtered water. So far they’ve already [...]

It’s not uncommon to find biodegradable or compostable plates or cups being used for dinners or events lately, but sometimes creating recycled paper products takes more energy than they’re worth.

That’s why Verterra’s all-natural dinnerware stands out as different from the rest. Although the company has been around for a couple of years, their products are [...]