[Biofuel] Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/06/local_food.html Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds Shoppers say they're willing to pay a premium June 5, 2008 Locally-grown produce may cost a little more, but new research suggests that the average consumer is willing to pay that

Re: [Biofuel] Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds

2008-06-13 Thread Rick Emmet
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Re: [Biofuel] Fuel from Algae

2008-06-13 Thread JTD
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Re: [Biofuel] A Norwegian alchemist

2008-06-13 Thread Ove Steen
Thanks, Tom - also for your generous offer to mail me some phenolphthalein. - But as you say: The phenolphthalein seems good. It is also possible to acquire phenolphthalein powder in Oslo. - As for the solvent: The first phenolphthalein I had, was dissolved in isopropyl

Re: [Biofuel] Fuel from Algae

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Tim Friends I found the thread on algae base fuels interesting. It only discusses oil from algae and biodiesel from algae. Hm, Simon didn't reply. Funny that, how they never reply. :-) Keith wisely points out that the site given does not show evidence of current production. Knowing

[Biofuel] Alcohol Can Be a Gas! - review

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
David Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! - Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century, Foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller, International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, California, 2007 http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com?bid=2aid=CD99opt= When David Blume emailed me about reviewing his new

Re: [Biofuel] Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Rick Hey Keith, Good article, Yes, there's hope. (But lots to do!) Though it'll be more convincing when there's some opposite effect discernible in a decline in the freakishly high amounts of food that gets wasted at the consumer level, if only that data weren't always so far behind.

Re: [Biofuel] Monbiot: Peasantry necessary for human survival

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
George Monbiot writes a syndicated weekly column for the Guardian, 1,250 words, every week, week after week. He's been doing it for years. The About George Monbiot piece at his website is dated June 9, 2000. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper, it says. That's maybe 416 weekly

Re: [Biofuel] Fuel from Algae

2008-06-13 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Erik From another list I'm on: http://jalopnik.com/394479/sears-tower-or-bust-my-algae+powered-car-adventure They actually made a little bit of biodiesel from algae, and they're not a professional lab, but they did say that they had to have a full time lab do some centrifuge work for them.

Re: [Biofuel] Monbiot: Peasantry necessary for human survival

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Burck
thanks so much for chiming in, keith. i might not have otherwise connected the dots. there was a bit on the radio (amy goodman, i think) the other day about that, but the name didn't stick. it was an interview, and the guy had. . .just scads of apalling information about bolton. stuff that,

Re: [Biofuel] Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds

2008-06-13 Thread Doug Younker
Keith Addison wrote: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/06/local_food.html Consumers Prefer Locally Grown Food, Study Finds Shoppers say they're willing to pay a premium Has anyone asked the questions Can you afford to pay a premium? How much of a premium? Doug, N0LKK Kansas