Today I finished devouring Novella Carpenter’s Farm City.  Frankie sent it to me.  Frankie is the former publisher of biodieselSMARTER, and in his hand typed letter that accompanied the book he felt that I must have known Novella from my travels in the grassroots biodiesel community. (more…)

About twenty biodiesel enthusiasts met tonight for dinner and beers at Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro. (more…)

I slept late this morning.  These days I have been routinely hitting the Control Room at 7:00 a.m. (more…)

Piedmont has finally entered the business of selling “Renewable Identification Numbers,” or RINS. (more…)

Yesterday about thirty people gathered in the back of the General Store Café to continue the “Slow Money” conversation that has come to town.

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One of the salient aspects of the Control Room these days is the activity of our members.

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Tami and I spent the weekend in Charleston, South Carolina, home of the Eight Annual BALLE Conference.

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The other day I noticed diesel at the pump was 3.05.  I was driving one of our short trucks at the time, and seeing that price on the gas station marquee took me down memory lane. (more…)

When I took over management of the B100 Community Trail I had the unenviable job of spiking our fuel with some petroleum. (more…)

Today I received a complaint from a reader about  my absence from the blogosphere.  And it made me want to come back here for a time. (more…)