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…)

Friday night Tami and I trundled off to the Kenan Flagler Business School at  UNC to take in a presentation by Rob Watson and Dennis Quaintance.

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It’s a complicated picture, but one that speaks volumes about how an ounce of practice is equal to a ton of theory. (more…)

I spent the day with the Board of Directors of the Abundance Foundation, trying to figure out the future of the world. (more…)

Awhile back I moved my book reviews out of Energy Blog and over to my own site.  Biofuels.coop is a busy place, and I thought it was confusing to publishers. (more…)

Tonight I did a fuel run.  I topped up our Moncure location with B100, bought a couple of hundred gallons of petroleum from the Jordan Dam Mini Mart, and filled up Raleigh and Pittsboro with B80-our winter blend. (more…)

In the summer of 2009 North Carolina’s “Energy Bureaucracy” was shaken up and re-arranged by our newly elected governor. (more…)

Yesterday we shipped our Sr. Intern Holden off to the train station in Greensboro.  He’s headed to Athens, Georgia to convalesce. (more…)

We are all quite proud of my daughter, Jess, who works in advertising in New York City.  She’s 24, broke, and works on the top floor of a Fifth Avenue sky scraper right next to the Empire State Building.

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Scott Shore was an intern with us last semester.  He is off to his next adventure, and we are grateful for his time with us.  Here is what he wrote about his time at Piedmont:

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