An Array of Utopian Flowers
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LA River Revitalization: The Story of Master Plan Gone Awry
Posted on April 2, 2021 | No Comments - Biotonomy: Designing Nature-Based Autonomous Buildings and Cities
Posted on March 26, 2021 | No Comments - Paul Bowles Documentary: ‘Let it Come Down’
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Biofuels Archive
Sustainable Cellulosic Ethanol: Expensive Process, Political Challenges
Posted on October 8, 2013 | No CommentsImagine a future in which airliners run on cornstalks and Navy ships ply the oceans on tanks of switchgrass. That day may be in sight but challenges remain to scale up production, reduce costs and political opposition, and ensure a sustainably produced feedstock.Yellow Grease Biodiesel: A Clean, Renewable Fuel Alternative
Posted on July 29, 2013 | 1 CommentBiodiesel, a cleaner renewable alternative to fossil diesel, can be made from any vegetable oil, but best using waste cooking oil. It's use is growing across the US in 5 to 20 percent blends.Biofuels from Seaweed: A More Sustainable Energy Source?
Posted on July 1, 2013 | No CommentsMany millions are being invested in seaweed research from Vietnam to Israel to Chile because producing biofuels in the sea overcomes many of the serious problems with conventional biofuels.Solazyme: The Dream of Clean, Renewable, Algae-Derived Fuel
Posted on June 28, 2013 | 1 CommentSolazyme is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms algae into high-value oils, and hopes one day to produce enough to rival gasoline and diesel. Their road to the market has been circuitous but instructive as a workable business model for renewable energy.Sustainable Biofuels? From Agro-Fueled Land Conflicts to Algae
Posted on April 28, 2012 | 4 CommentsCan scientists engineer a biofuel that will replace the environmental and climate destroying and evermore expensive fossil fuels central to the functioning of our urbanized civilization? The answer is no and yes.Guatemala: Biofuels Production Leads to Violent Evictions
Posted on March 22, 2011 | 5 CommentsThousands of Mayan Q'eqchi villagers were violently evicted from 14 communities, to make way for 'for export' agribusiness initiatives, particularly production of sugar cane and African palm trees aimed at biofuel promotion.World Bank-Funded Biofuel Corporation Massacres Six Honduran Campesinos – By Annie Bird
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 6 CommentsSecurity from World Bank-funded biofuel corporation Dinant massacred legally land-titled Honduran campesinos, casting a shadow on international climate change initiatives.
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