You can’t eat free… unless you’re also getting renewable, clean-burning biodiesel. Well, the world’s first environmentally sustainable tour bus was able to get a free fillup of B100, pure biodiesel, at Innovation Fuels’ New York Harbor bioefinery: “The Permibus” – the world’s first environmentally sustainable tour bus complete with an interior garden perpetuated by worms, live chicken farm, multidimensional composting system, solar panels and wood burning stove – visited renewable fuels c

This is a guest post by Yael Borofsky The nation’s leading research universities are calling on the Senate to ensure dramatically more funding for clean energy R&D in the Senate climate and energy bill, investments they described as necessary to achieve the bill’s targeted deep cuts in emissions. In a letter delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid earlier this month, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Universities (AAU)

A Florida-based algae-biodiesel company has found an international market for a by-product of its clean energy business. This press release from PetroAlgae Inc. says it has has received official notice that the protein from PetroAlgae’s proprietary micro-crop production technology has successfully passed testing by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture and is suitable for use in animal feed: Furthermore, the protein has been cleared for importation as a raw material to be used as an ingr

Kathryn Seagle is immediate past president of the University of Florida Medical Guild, Inc. and the current president of the Gift Stop board. As the University of Florida Medical Guild celebrates its 50th anniversary, its foundation strengthens for the next 50 years of friendship and service. We serve by awarding scholarships, grants and special project funding to health-related projects. To help support these projects, the guild now partners with The Gift Stop, including the new shop in the S

The Department of Energy requests $165 million for climate science and more than $1 billion for climate change technology R&D intended to increase renewable energy generation, advance energy efficiency, and modernize the electricity grid. DOE seeks to further three new initiatives: Energy Innovation Hubs, Energy Frontier Research Centers, and the Advance Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The U.S. Global Change Research Program, which coordinates and integrates research over 1

Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist Professor Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge said on Thursday.  Much of the melting will take place within a decade, although the winter ice will stay for hundreds of years. The changes will mean the top of the Earth will appear blue rather than white when photographed from space and ships will

UPI, October 23, 2009Australian ocean energy company BioPower Systems announced it reached an agreement with the city of San Francisco to explore wave energy technology.“The feasibility of ocean waves as an energy source is being considered and this could lead to further project development,” said John Doyle, acting manager of infrastructure at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.BioPower will work with the San Francisco utility to examine the feasibility of a project site 5 miles off

Bioresin manufacturer Metabolix Inc. (Cambridge, MA) has genetically engineered tobacco to produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) as it works to create non-food sources for biobased polymers. Under a permit from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to perform an open-air field trial in March of 2009, Metabolix completed field-trial experiments in early October. The trial was undertaken on 0.8 acres of land, with the best plants producing 3-5% PHA. Metabolix sa

Solar photovoltaic installation. (Rob Baxter)Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S., showing that the average cost of these systems declined by more than 30 percent from 1998 to 2008. Within the last year of this period, costs fell by more than 4 percent.The number of solar PV systems in the U.S. has been growing at a rapid rate in recent years,

Wind Energy Outlook for North America Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Wind-Energy-Outlook-for-North-America.html ) analyzes the opportunities and challenges facing wind power in North America ? particularly turbine manufacturers ? in the current economic and political climate. It assesses drivers of growth include rising demand for electricity, pro-wind regulatory environments, advantages over other renewables, and technological innovations driving down