Can local growers cash in on the developing market for biofuels? Would going into farm-to-fuel crops be a sure bet or risky business? ...more

March 24, 2009

More than 100 people filled the auditorium at the Bert J. Harris Jr. Agricultural Center on Thursday for a six-hour symposium that featured seven scientific experts speaking on growing fuels for conversion into biofuels. ...more

March 6, 2009

The 140 full-time jobs and hundreds of construction jobs created in Highlands County to build a cellulose ethanol plant already are known, but now a big player is stepping up. ...more

February 20, 2009

Everybody, it seems, is on board with the concept of encouraging green energy and green jobs. We're riding the Barack Obama bandwagon, which promises to trundle - under some combination of solar, wind and biofuel - down the road to zero emissions, energy independence and a multi-megaton employment explosion. ...more

December 28, 2008

This weeks must-have food-related items are a snack serving tray, a hip flask for mom and an alt-energy menorah. ...more

December 3, 2008

Early next year, Progress Energy Florida will begin studying the feasibility of producing power with a biofuel made from animal fat and vegetable oil. The biofuel, a proprietary formula owned by New Generation Biofuels Inc., will be tested in boilers at Progress Energy's Bartow power plant in St. Petersburg. Right now, the electric utility produces about 3 percent of its power from renewable resources. ...more

November 21, 2008

It's either me or ...? I never thought it would come to this but it has. Just like Sen. Barack Obama saying that his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has changed, so has my connection to most things sacred in society, namely my car and food. Like most of you, it will be a battle of will or reasonable facsimile that may decide the outcome. It is man against machine; man against the beast. It is a strange dichotomy. I can choose to feed my family or have nothing to feed them. ...more

July 12, 2008

Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels. ...more

February 25, 2008