Industry at the Brink

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

I’m in D.C. this week, running around from giant office building to giant office building, meeting with politicians and lobbyists and the like, working on a bunch of stuff.

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Snack Food Independence

Monday, November 30th, 2009

This year Piedmont Biofarm had a bumper harvest of peanuts.

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The Whole Grape

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Today I delivered half a loaf of “multi-grain” bread to Benjamin Vineyards.  One of its ingredients was flour made from their grape seeds.

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Crush Plant

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

We’ve rigged up a crushing plant in the hallway of Building 3, and we are in the process of crushing tons of sun flower seeds.

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Ongoing Bananas

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I have to say that I have been eating a lot of bananas lately.  But before the “Hundred Mile Diet” folks freak out about my dietary deviation, I should say they came out of the yard.

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Solar Double Cropping

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Wind energy gets all the breaks when it comes to interfacing with farmers.  After all, farmers can get lease payments from turbines on their land, while raising contented cows on the fields below.

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New to the Library

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Awhile back I moved my book reviews out of Energy Blog and over to my own website.  That’s because biofuels.coop is an exceedingly busy space.

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Chamber of Commerce

Monday, October 12th, 2009

It’s been a couple of days since Apple has pulled out of the Chamber of Commerce. I’ve been busy, but I can’t wait to blog about it.
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Local Economy and Climate Change

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Today I went to  T.S. Design’s remarkable Green Gala.  They invited me to speak on local economy, and I sort of did that.

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Keeping up with Kumar

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Around Piedmont Biofuels, we really are powered by one motivation.  And that is to keep up with Kumar and company out in California.

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