Oooh, some really good stuff today. Links about action, accomplishment and bringing like-minded people together . . . and then ruining it by having the President show up. I really hope he’s rendered powerless soon. November 2006 is shaping up to be one of the most important months in recent history. Onward ho, sustainability galore.
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Bioenergy | Bioenergy effort at least has a name: CE2 | “St. Louis area business and civic leaders who want to make the region a bioenergy hub have given their effort a name: the Center for EverGreen Energy, or CE². The announcement will be made during a two-day renewable-energy conference at America’s Center that will include speeches by President George W. Bush, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns.” Boo to Bush. Yeah to everything else, though I’m sure some pseudo-science Bush Administration plants will be conveniently present. | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Conference | Advancing Renewable Energy Conference | “Accelerating the development and use of alternative energy sources is not only a critical national security issue, but is key to maintaining America’s economic competitiveness, as well as a tremendous opportunity for farmers, businesses, and rural communities across our nation.” The conference ends tomorrow with the presentation of lies by the President. Hopefully some good comes out of the conference before he shows up.
Corporate |DuPont Expands Sustainability Commitments, Goals Focus on Market-Driven Innovations to Address Safety, Environment, Energy & Climate Challenges | “DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr. today said the company is broadening its sustainability commitments and will expand its business offerings addressing safety, environment, energy and climate challenges in the global marketplace. The company expects to derive additional revenues of $6 billion or more by 2015 from the targeted effort.” | ChemPoint
Ethanol |Why we’re not buying E85-yet | Hmmm, maybe ’cause non-cellulosic ethanol sucks. Anyway, I suppose it a step sideways to reduce fuel efficiency while also decreasing pollution, as long as the latter out paces the former. ‘Brian Behme of Worden said he was unaware that his Ford Ranger pickup was E85-compatible until a friend told him. For years, he’d owned the truck without paying attention to the small rectangular corn stalk emblem on the lower right of the tailgate or what it meant. “I had no idea that I could run this stuff,” Behme said, filling up at the Zephyr Express on East Broadway in Alton. “It smells like Jack Daniel’s.”‘ Welcome to America. | Jeffrey Tomich, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Surplus | Sustainability first, equitable tax cuts second | A surplus is not something we’re used to in the U.S. but the New Zealanders have a decent sized one and one man, Dr. Russel Norman, has a good idea what to do with it. “The first call on the $3 billion cash surplus announced today should be investments in environmental and social sustainability, and if tax cuts do go ahead then they should be introduced as a tax-free threshold at the bottom of the tax scale that would benefit all New Zealanders, says the Green Party.” | Scoop
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I broke my rule of having a different source for each one of the links but energy is the theme today, and since the President will be in St. Louis for the energy conference I felt the exception was warranted. Go Cardinals!
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