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Sunday, July 13 9:00 am - Noon 88.3 FM Eureka & 91.1 FM Garberville www.kmud.org Keynote speakers: Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness and Voices for Creative Nonviolence Malik Rahim, co-founder of Common Ground Collective Cliff Thornton, co-founder of Efficacy, Inc, and winner of the Robert C Randall Award for his work on drug policy reform. Green Party Presidential Candidates: Cynthia McKinney Kent Mesplay Jesse Johnson Kat Swift Visit t… Continue

Biodiesel age dawns in El Paso By Vic Kolenc / El Paso Times Larry Walter, left, and Carlos Guzman are opening a biodiesel plant in the former Southwestern Irrigated Cotton Growers Association plant at 3500 Doniphan. The processor behind them will convert used vegetable oil and anima… Continue

Michael Klare Abu Dhabi National July 03. 2008 Energy experts continue to debate whether the world has already reached a peak in global oil output or if the moment of maximum yield still lies years ahead. But if we could look back to today from 50 years hence, the difference between a peak in 2008 or, say, 2015 is largely immaterial: for all practical purposes we are now perched on the summit of the depletion curve of world petroleum, and will remain in this territory - a rounded crest when see… Continue

It was a happy birthday made all the happier for June Moxon and Ken Beidleman. After 80 miles, four meals and three casinos, they expected the celebration of the day they share to cost them less than a gallon of gas. “We’re going to eat and play on their money,” Beidleman said as he prepared to make the local gambling circle in the championship vehicle of the 1997 Kinetic Sculpture Race. Sharply attired and appreciative of sweat-proof make-up, Moxon sat in the passenger seat of the vehicle th… Continue

Rice engineers ID 'green' methods to make valuable organic acids HOUSTON -- June 30, 2008 -- In a move that promises to change the economics of biodiesel refining, chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit. The latest research is available online in the journal Metabolic Engineering. The new paper and others published earlier this year describe a new fermentation process that allo… Continue