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How To Spend Less Money On Gas, 2012

May 28th, 2012 · 3 Comments · money, transportation

Gas prices were the highest they’ve ever been on the West Coast over this past Memorial Day weekend. However much gas costs, though, we always have some control over how much we spend on it. These tips will help you take back that control.

Private Empire: Feast Of Data, Famine Of Vision

May 4th, 2012 · 4 Comments · books, energy

What’s the most profitable, secretive and possibly hated company in the U.S.? ExxonMobil, the subject of two-time Pultizer prize winning Steve Coll’s just-released book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil And American Power. I eagerly devoured

Cattails, Not Corn, Into Ethanol

December 3rd, 2009 · 15 Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, transportation

You might have already known this, but I did not, and am intrigued to have found out: ethanol, the gasoline substitute that can help the U.S. achieve much-needed energy independence from the volatile Mideast, does not have to be made from corn, at all. That’s good news for two reasons: it takes huge fossil-fuel inputs [...]

Bike. Walk. Joy.

March 10th, 2009 · 9 Comments · energy, health & well being, lifestyle, sustainability, transportation

Did you know that 40% of trips made in the U.S. are two miles or less in length? That’s walking and bicycling distance. Yet cars are currently being used for most of those trips. So much physical, sensual pleasure being bypassed as we vegetate in our vehicles! And carbon emissions needlessly created. And overweight-ness perpetuated. [...]

Biodiesel Now Yielding 3.5 to 1?

March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · food & drink

Some folks are familiar with how we heat our home with biodiesel, with real success. The kind we use is made from vegetable oil that had its first life in restaurants, (and is usually discarded in places less funky and sustainable than Oregon). All of which is another reason I love living here.

My understanding had been that traditional (not recycled) biodiesel was not sustainable, i.e. uses so many fossil-fuel

Heating Our House With Biodiesel

February 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · sustainability

I got up at 5 this morning and immediately put on my fleece pants, top and socks. (It’s a bummer that fleece is so great when it’s derived from petroleum). I was still cold so I turned the heat on — not petroleum.

Thor and I have almost pure biodiesel (B99) in our oil furnace. We bought it from Star Oil, who bought it from SeQuential Biofuel. So we’re heating

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