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Sprouting Like Weeds From Wired via the Biodiesel Blog, story on the explosive growth and appeal of biodiesel. 66% growth in one year is amazing by anyone’s standards — why [ … ]

More Energy and Biology… From the Biodiesel Blog (which I just discovered) “via Slashdot via JMacD,” an article on using algae in biodiesel production. A bit technical for a literature [ … ]

Can One Person Change the World? You Bet L. Hunter Lovins (of Natural Capitalism and RMI fame) details Richard Sandor’s flight into the face of prevailing opinion in creating the [ … ]

Wind Farmers This is just one example of farmers being among the earliest groups to recognize the profitability of sustainability measures. Just imagine if the government started subsidizing windmills rather [ … ]

British Biomass Once again, the Brits show that they get it: “public-sector bodies” (such as schools) can now buy power generated from landfill-produced methane at the same prices charged for [ … ]

This town’s not big enough for dirty buildings… says San Francisco as it adopts a Green Building ordinance requiring that “all city-owned facilities and leaseholds will need to achieve at [ … ]

Making Conservation Profitable Detailed and fascinating post I found on Howling at a Waning Moon which originally came from the Society for Conservation Biology. Remember the idea of “natural services” [ … ]

Microbial Fuel Cells Generate Energy & Clean Water From the Alternative Energy/Renewable Energy blog: a fascinating update on microbial fuel cells. I think this is the first I’ve heard of [ … ]

Green Cindarellas An inspiring story from Grist on new green builders Susan Boyle and Benton Brown and their masterpiece in Brooklyn. My month-old worm bin pales in comparison, but it’s [ … ]

ISO to Go Ahead with Guidelines for Social Responsibility From Greenbiz.com, an important step forward for social responsibility in the business world. ISO, the creator of standards for everything from [ … ]

Most Support Fight Against Global Warming According to this poll. OK, the constituency is out there — how about a political leader with the common sense to grab this one??

Green Las Vegas?? Who’d a thunk it? As a former Las Vegas resident, I certainly wouldn’t have thought “Sin City” was capable of thinking green, not with its “more, bigger” [ … ]

The Dead Zone… isn’t just a TV show. According to the Earth Policy Institute, scientists have measured definite increases in oceanic “dead zones” that are caused by fertilizer run-off and [ … ]