Green Options

Ready, set, SVO! Welcome to the 2007 Greaseball Challenge, a 4500 mile charity biofuel race from Washington D.C. to San Jose, Costa Rica. I nearly fell of my chair when I saw this - not that using biodiesel or converting a vehicle to run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) and driving to Central America is an entirely new concept. But to race for the benefit of charities and grassroots environmental groups?

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If you thought the biofuel debate was hot now… things just got a whole lot hotter.

WASHINGTON - At 08:04 AM this morning, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) announced the end of a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling:

The IWC has joined forces with the international community to support the development alternative fuel," said spokesman Phillip Alloway. "Due to increasing domestic oil prices and the serious implications of global warming, we understand the necessity of

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Nevada State Senator Bob Coffin (D-Las Vegas) wants to repeal a law that states, quite logically, that burning tires for electricity does not constitute renewable energy except in limited circumstances. Coffin believes the existing law hinders other technologies from developing and wants it rewritten to say “any system that involves creating electricity from tires” is renewable. Sounds like he took a page from President Bush’s playbook that declared nuclear power is “a renewable source

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I live in a college town, and as such, have to deal with a massive amount of pollution from students more interested making it home in a drunken stupor than what to properly do with that bottle of J.D. in their hands. Alas, it's me, a garbage bag, and the occasional cleanup to avoid becoming awash in crap.