Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Keith, To better understand the companies people that the Heartland Institute thinks their message resonates with, the attached PDF from the upcoming EUEC (Energy, Utility Environment Conference) conference may be helpful. There is also a copy of the PDF stored on Google Documents: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B83-0weSlvJvYzVlMzYxMWMtYjIzMi00MzIzLWE4ZTctMTQxMmU5YmU4OTRh The Heartland Institute will be speaking as a conference co-sponsor (see below). Some of the session titles include: REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT IN THE AMERICAS: IS IT WORTH THE COST? James Taylor, Senior Fellow, Environment Policy, The Heartland Institute AIR QUALITY REGULATORY CHALLENGES FOR POWER GENERATORS IN 2012 UPDATE TO UNITS AT RISK FOR RETIREMENT IN PJM AS A RESULT OF EPA REGULATION WHAT ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS? ENVIRONMENTAL NUISANCE CLAIMS AND AIR QUALITY COMPLIANCE IMPACT OF SOLID WASTE REGULATION ON ALTERNATIVE FUEL NO. 6 OIL USE UNDER THE EGU MACT RULE6 OIL USE UNDER THE EGU MACT RULE FEDERAL GHG REGULATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS RECENT TRENDS IN EPA AND ACTIVIST GROUP AIR PERMIT CHALLENGE IMPLICATIONS OF EPA’S PROPOSED CLEAN WATER ACT 316(B) REGULATIONS ON THE POWER INDUSTRY THE FUTURE OF FLYASH AS A CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL ENSURING OPTIMAL COMPLIANCE WITH FUTURE MERCURY REGULATIONS CARBON TAX OR “CAP-AND-TRADE” SYSTEMS ITS EFFECT ON U S. REFINING MARKETING THE CONTINUING SHALE GAS STAMPEDE SPILLS, SINS STARBUCKS: HOW WE DESIGNED OUR CITIES AROUND OILS, SINS STARBUCKS BRINGING ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING INTO THE 21ST CENTURY NUCLEAR POWER IN A POST-FUKUSHIMA WORLD Cheers, Christian On Dec 13, 2011, at 06:56 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Christian The Heartland Institute is a loud proud sponsor at various conferences (EUEC in Phoenix) news aggregators (epOverviews) ... Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartland Institute - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute -- http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland's Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually an attack on middle-class American capitalism. His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine? Here at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren't going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. You can believe this is about the climate, he says darkly, and many people do, but it's not a reasonable belief. Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: The issue isn't the issue. The issue, apparently, is that no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires· The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way. Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama's campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about green communitarianism, akin to the Maoist scheme to put a pig iron furnace in everybody's backyard (the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels). That climate change is a stalking horse for National Socialism (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists' go-to website, ClimateDepot.com). Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate
Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Keith, As to why the Heartland Institute is a repeat sponsor at serious energy+ conferences and news aggregators, ask the Directors Owners of the two respective firms mentioned: 1. EUEC http://www.euec.com/directors.aspx 2. epOverviews http://www.epoverviews.com/about.php Best, Christian On Dec 13, 2011, at 06:56 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Christian The Heartland Institute is a loud proud sponsor at various conferences (EUEC in Phoenix) news aggregators (epOverviews) ... Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartland Institute - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/indexphp?title=Heartland_Institute -- http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland's Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually an attack on middle-class American capitalism. His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine? Here at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren't going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. You can believe this is about the climate, he says darkly, and many people do, but it's not a reasonable belief. Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: The issue isn't the issue. The issue, apparently, is that no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires·. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way. Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama's campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about green communitarianism, akin to the Maoist scheme to put a pig iron furnace in everybody's backyard (the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels). That climate change is a stalking horse for National Socialism (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists' go-to website, ClimateDepot.com). Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change has little to do with the state of the environment and much to do with shackling capitalism and transforming the American way of life in the interests of global wealth redistribution. Yes, sure, there is a pretense that the delegates' rejection of climate science is rooted in serious disagreement about the data. And the organizers go to some lengths to mimic credible scientific conferences, calling the gathering Restoring the Scientific Method and even adopting the organizational acronym ICCC, a mere one letter off from the world's leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the scientific theories presented here are old and long discredited. And no attempt is made to explain why each speaker seems to contradict the next. (Is there no warming, or is there warming but it's not a problem? And if there is no warming, then what's all this talk about sunspots causing temperatures to rise?) In truth, several members of the mostly elderly audience seem to doze off while the temperature graphs are projected. They come to life only when the rock stars of the movement take the stage-not the C-team scientists but the A-team ideological warriors like Morano and Horner. This is the true purpose of the
Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Well Keith, Dollars to donuts: Stewart @ the Daily Show (and other independent minded citizens like myself) find the militant we can piss in the soup, who cares! modus operandi of Heartland Institute guests, staff directors funny at best. Except, not really funny. Examples: 7/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://blog.heartland.org/2011/12/coca-cola-playing-a-dangerous-game-by-cuddling-with-environmentalists/ 2/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://blog.heartland.org/2011/12/getting-the-enron-story-straight/ 10/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/12/01/climate-change-weekly-climategate-2-reveals-more-destruction-evidence-s http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/12/09/climategate-conspirator-mann-plays-persecuted-victim I wish the Daily Show's Stewart would host the Heartland Institute's Managing Director James M. Taylor (http://heartland.org/james-m-taylor) and Science Director Jay Leher (http://heartland.org/jay-lehr) on the show ... A little light can go a long way. Christian On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, that's not what I asked. Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith Keith, As to why the Heartland Institute is a repeat sponsor at serious energy+ conferences and news aggregators, ask the Directors Owners of the two respective firms mentioned: 1. EUEC http://www.euec.com/directors.aspx 2. epOverviews http://www.epoverviews.com/about.php Best, Christian On Dec 13, 2011, at 06:56 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Christian The Heartland Institute is a loud proud sponsor at various conferences (EUEC in Phoenix) news aggregators (epOverviews) ... Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartland Institute - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/indexphp?title=Heartland_Institute -- http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland's Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually an attack on middle-class American capitalism. His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine? Here at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren't going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. You can believe this is about the climate, he says darkly, and many people do, but it's not a reasonable belief. Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: The issue isn't the issue. The issue, apparently, is that no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires·. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way. Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama's campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about green communitarianism, akin to the Maoist scheme to put a pig iron furnace in everybody's backyard (the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels). That climate change is a stalking horse for National Socialism (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists' go-to website, ClimateDepot.com). Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate
Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Well Keith, Dollars to donuts: Stewart @ the Daily Show (and other independent minded citizens like myself) find the militant we can piss in the soup, who cares! modus operandi of Heartland Institute guests, staff directors funny at best. Except, not really funny. Examples: 7/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://blog.heartland.org/2011/12/coca-cola-playing-a-dangerous-game-by-cuddling-with-environmentalists/ 2/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://blog.heartland.org/2011/12/getting-the-enron-story-straight/ 10/10 on the Militant-We-Can-Piss-in-the-Soup!-o-meter: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/12/01/climate-change-weekly-climategate-2-reveals-more-destruction-evidence-s http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/12/09/climategate-conspirator-mann-plays-persecuted-victim I wish the Daily Show's Stewart would have the Heartland Institute's Managing Director James M. Taylor (http://heartland.org/james-m-taylor) and Science Director Jay Leher (http://heartland.org/jay-lehr) on the show ... A little light can go a long way. Christian On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, that's not what I asked. Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20111214/272965ac/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
Hi Keith, You don't sound ratty. Like Mark Twain? Then you'll love John Stewart @ the Daily Show. Extended interviews available for free online: http://www.thedailyshow.com/extended-interviews Examples Cheers, Christian On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Christian, I didn't mean to sound ratty. I just don't get it, I don't know anything about Stewart @ the Daily Show. How would it help? By the way: http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=Heartland+Institutel=sustainablelorgbiofuel%40sustainablelists.org 55 hits at the List archives for Heartland Institute. Best Keith No, that's not what I asked. Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith Keith, As to why the Heartland Institute is a repeat sponsor at serious energy+ conferences and news aggregators, ask the Directors Owners of the two respective firms mentioned: 1. EUEC http://www.euec.com/directors.aspx 2. epOverviews http://www.epoverviews.com/about.php Best, Christian On Dec 13, 2011, at 06:56 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Christian The Heartland Institute is a loud proud sponsor at various conferences (EUEC in Phoenix) news aggregators (epOverviews) ... Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. Why? Best Keith On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartland Institute - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/indexphp?title=Heartland_Institute -- http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland's Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually an attack on middle-class American capitalism. His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine? Here at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren't going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is. snip ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): biofuel@sustainablelists.org/'http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20111214/07a551bd/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Capitalism vs. the Climate - Naomi Klein
The Heartland Institute is a loud proud sponsor at various conferences (EUEC in Phoenix) news aggregators (epOverviews) ... Wish Stewart @ the Daily Show would make them a weekly feature. On Dec 11, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heartland Institute - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute -- http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-vs-climate Capitalism vs. the Climate Naomi Klein November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland's Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually an attack on middle-class American capitalism. His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine? Here at the Heartland Institute's Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren't going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. You can believe this is about the climate, he says darkly, and many people do, but it's not a reasonable belief. Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: The issue isn't the issue. The issue, apparently, is that no free society would do to itself what this agenda requiresŠ. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way. Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama's campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about green communitarianism, akin to the Maoist scheme to put a pig iron furnace in everybody's backyard (the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels). That climate change is a stalking horse for National Socialism (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists' go-to website, ClimateDepot.com). Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change has little to do with the state of the environment and much to do with shackling capitalism and transforming the American way of life in the interests of global wealth redistribution. Yes, sure, there is a pretense that the delegates' rejection of climate science is rooted in serious disagreement about the data. And the organizers go to some lengths to mimic credible scientific conferences, calling the gathering Restoring the Scientific Method and even adopting the organizational acronym ICCC, a mere one letter off from the world's leading authority on climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the scientific theories presented here are old and long discredited. And no attempt is made to explain why each speaker seems to contradict the next. (Is there no warming, or is there warming but it's not a problem? And if there is no warming, then what's all this talk about sunspots causing temperatures to rise?) In truth, several members of the mostly elderly audience seem to doze off while the temperature graphs are projected. They come to life only when the rock stars of the movement take the stage-not the C-team scientists but the A-team ideological warriors like Morano and Horner. This is the true purpose of the gathering: providing a forum for die-hard denialists to collect the rhetorical baseball bats with which they will club environmentalists and climate scientists in the weeks and months to come. The talking points first tested here will jam the comment sections beneath every article and YouTube video that contains the phrase climate change or global warming. They
[Biofuel] Has anyone seen the 2010 B100 Biodiesel survey from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory?
Has anyone seen the 2010 B100 Biodiesel survey from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory? If so, please share the link: A few National Renewable Energy Lab documents video on Biodiesel going back to 2005 2011: nothing on B100 yet? B20: http://www.houston-cleancities.org/Clean%20Cities%20Pages/Coalition%20Events/4-27-2011/NREL.pdf 2010: ? 2009: B100 survey? Biodiesel status report: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/pdfs/bd_status_issues_final.pdf http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/npbf/pdfs/44833.pdf 2 NREL video presentations + 1 combined MB/Audi/VW/BMW/Bosch http://www.dieselforum.org/index.cfm?objectid=2FB6D266-AF06-11E0-ABD4000C296BA163 my take-away comment: NREL sees negligible differences performance-wise between ASTM-spec Biodiesel and petro-diesel versus Walter the Mercedes Benz spokesman pushing the urea-exhaust system while admitting quality of hydro-treated vegetable oil versus BP's Rich George talking about the fungible nature of biodiesel versus petro diesel blames the states' individual laws and UL not approving more than 5% use at retailers importance of ASTM spec fuel if big players can distribute biodiesel ... Most pipelines don't carry biodiesel = competes with jetfuel movement to put 100 parts per million of biodiesel with jetfuel ... slow movement to B5 expensive to have terminal with heated storage tanks and pipes to carry biodiesel 365 business as usual = splash blend 2008: B20 http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/npbf/pdfs/45184.pdf 2007: B100: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/42787.pdf 2006: B100: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41549.pdf 2005: B100 survey? Effects of Biodiesel: http://www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/npbf/pdfs/38296.pdf -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110915/41f28b15/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Marc I launched our Biodiesel Co-op in Kentucky and ...
.. to the question, do community co-ops matter? the answer is: YES! Do Community Co-Ops Matter? RFS2 mandates biodiesel production, but local communities need a cooperative approach Eric Williams used to work as a civil engineer in a building owned by a farmer co-op that, among many things, made soy biodiesel. Today, Williams works in energy efficiency in Omaha and every Friday night he joins up with the members of his own co-op, architects, graduate students, financial consultants and anyone else interested in making biodiesel. “We realized that it is more effective to process the fuels then it would be for any of us to work alone,” Williams says. With the help of those architects and financial consultants, he formed the Omaha Biofuels Coop, a licensed producer-consumer operation that touts the motto: producing, using and promoting biofuels. Back in 2006 as a civil engineer, Williams says he also realized that even with large biodiesel production facilities scattered across the country, “there were very few options for cars in the area to use biodiesel.” Times have changed since 2006, and today the average driver has greater access to biodiesel than ever before (which, unfortunately in some cases, still isn’t that great). But, more gallons of available biodiesel haven’t put an end to stories like those of Williams and the Omaha Biofuels Coop. In fact, more biodiesel co-ops are meeting on Friday nights, sometimes on the loading dock of their industrial buildings, than ever before. For a nominal fee, co-op members can fill up their Volkswagen diesels, Ford F-250s or even their John Deeres, but don’t confuse their stories with a nice back-page feature in the Sunday Life section of the local newspaper. Biodiesel co-ops are doing their part in the continued growth of the industry one 5-gallon jug of waste vegetable oil (WVO) biodiesel at a time. If the 5 MMgy producers are working to provide an advanced biofuel for mass use, it’s the 5-gallon folks who are working to help the end-users understand why such a fuel is so special in the first place. Don’t believe it? Think about all the times someone you know, or have read about, has made a misinformed statement about a biofuel’s negative properties. Eric Williams speaks to people like that every day, and every day, he says, his co-op is growing. Keeping it Rural Matters Christian Thalacker wasn’t a civil engineer before he started the Louisville Biodiesel Cooperative, he was an energy consultant who bought and sold for a large wholesale energy company. And, unlike Williams, Thalacker doesn’t cater to urban drivers (although he would). Thalacker, along with co-founder Marc Verdi, is aiming to supply biodiesel and grow his cooperative by providing farmers, particularly family farmers, with biodiesel. His approach is to keep his fuel local, and help small cattle operations or horse ranchers in the region save a few dollars by purchasing biodiesel from his cooperative that he says will be priced lower than the going rate for petro diesel today “You look at all the pressures that family farms have, and family ranchers have,” he says, “and $4 petrodiesel seems insane.” Thalacker estimates that the average local farmer in his area uses roughly 3,000 gallons of fuel per season. Although his co-op is rather new, it started in November, he says that farmers in his area (about 70) would love to have biodiesel available and “as soon as it is ready,” he adds, “they are ready to buy.” The Louisville Biodiesel Cooperative offers up one of the greatest benefits of the growing number of co-ops across the country Their model of staying local, and being as green and transparent as possible is one that nearly every co-op is adopting in its own way, and is a positive medium to create a network of public and private relationships of businesses and consumers, all holding the same opinion of biodiesel. “There is a resonance with the restaurants,” he says of the places he collects the WVO used to produce his product. “There is a resonance with the big commercial-size kitchens,” a mutual feeling he says both parties believe in. Thalacker says he isn’t reinventing the wheel though, he’s simply trying to mimic the operational standards of arguably the most successful biodiesel co-op in the country, Piedmont Biofuels, a co-op he’s talked with several times. He’s also trying to take the same approach as people in places like Austin, Texas, or Chapel Hill, N.C., who he says are giving back to the restaurants that donate their WVO to the co-ops by performing as much marketing as possible for those establishments. While Thalacker does say he has to compete in his area with “the big players” who collect WVO for use as animal feed, he might be encouraged to know that people like John Campbell, vice president of government relations for Ag Processing Inc., an original player in the biodiesel industry, and the model of how
[Biofuel] Can anyone direct me to the four papers referenced in the NBB article here?
I am looking for the four full articles/presentations referenced in the footnotes: http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Lubricity.PDF Any additional, relevant articles appreciated. Christian Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Call for Tax on Financial Deals to Fight Global Warming
Solution: Tax of 1 basis point on all bond, foreign exchange and commodity transactions in the primary (from the issuing entity) and secondary (transacted through a broker) markets. Anything more than 1 basis point would be more altruistic. Cheers, Christian On Jun 11, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/08-1 Published on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by The Irish Times Call for Tax on Financial Deals to Fight Global Warming by Frank MacDonald A tax on international financial transactions could generate real funds immediately to help developing countries protect tropical rain forests and fight global warming, the latest round of climate talks in Bonn heard yesterday. Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon, who called on all countries to adopt such a tax, complained that most of the $30 billion in fast-start finance pledged by developed nations at the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 had not come through. Instead of countries re-branding aid as climate finance, he said, a tax on international financial transactions would be a mechanism that can generate real funds . . . to act immediately to address the protection of forests and fight climate change. Mr Solon also called for the Kyoto Protocol to be renewed at the Durban climate summit in December, on the basis that there was no time to negotiate new legally binding treaty aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in developed countries. We cannot come out of South Africa with the targets we have now, as the UN Environment Programme has shown they will lead us to 4 degrees Celsius of global warming. We must have targets that limit temperature rise to between 1C and 1.5C to preserve life. More than 3,000 participants from 183 countries are attending the two-week session in Bonn, which is meant to lay the groundwork for Durban. But few believe that progress will be made on crunch issues such as a renewal of Kyoto, which expires next year. Last week carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached the highest level ever recorded, at nearly 390 parts per million, and the International Energy Agency said emissions from energy generation in 2010 were also the highest ever - despite the recession. With carbon emissions at record highs, it's clear that policymakers are out of step with the speed of climate change in the real world, said Greenpeace's climate policy co-ordinator Tove Maria Ryding. [They] need to start delivering proven solutions. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said at the opening session that governments have an unavoidable responsibility to make clear progress towards the 2011 climate objectives which they had agreed in at the Cancún climate conference last December. Governments lit a beacon in Cancún towards a low-emission world which is resilient to climate change. They committed themselves to a maximum global average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius, with further consideration of a 1.5 degree maximum. Now, more than ever, it is critical that all efforts are mobilised towards living up to this commitment, Ms Figueres said, adding that negotiators were working hard to provide clarity on the architecture of the future international climate regime to reduce emissions. Separately, 18 Greenpeace activists who scaled an Arctic oil rig off the coast of Greenland have been arrested. They were demanding that operators Cairn Energy reveal its plans to deal with potential oil spills. Cairn Energy had sought an injunction against Greenpeace protesting against its operations in the Arctic region. But when the matter came before a court in Amsterdam on Monday, the judge also asked the company to make its oil spill response plan public. A final ruling on the injunction application is due tomorrow. © 2011 The Irish Times ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): biofuel@sustainablelists.org/'http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110611/47b593b3/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate
Midori, This is so sad. I spent 4 years in Hokkaido as a masters student at Otaru University of Commerce. I spent one month traveling throughout Japan in the Spring of 1999. It is hard to believe the damage inflicted. Christian On Jun 08, 2011, at 07:59 AM, Midori Hiraga (JTF) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, 2011/6/8 Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/07-1 According to the latest estimates, 770,000 terabequerels - about 20% as much as the official estimate for Chernobyl - of radiation seeped from the plant in the week after the tsunami, more than double the initial estimate of 370,000. That's the amount only to the air. 770,000 terabequerels doesn't include the amount which has been leaking (or poured intentionally) into the ocean. Midori ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): biofuel@sustainablelists.org/'http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20110608/cdceea72/attachment.html ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
