Independent biodiesel maker also produces research
The News Review:
- Independent biodiesel maker also produces research
- Radio station seeks high school choir submissions
- Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)
- SNP bets on the small businessman
- How the myth of food miles hurts the planet
- Scotland must not freeze in the headlights
Independent biodiesel maker also produces research
Capital Press – Capital Press (subscription) – Mar 23, 2008
” Verhey said the paper officially is the child of Cascadia Carbon Institute, of which he is president, but it was born of many evenings and weekends he spent researching and writing. Verhey, who began operating Central Washington Biodiesel in January, has been touting the canola-based fuel as a more environmentally friendly alternative to other biofuels and to fossil fuels. He’s coined it the “Pacific Northwest’s own home-grown fuel. “But more than the fuel has a home-grown aspect to it. Verhey, concerned over public perceptions that all crops grown for biofuels will deplete crops for food – and thus drive up food prices – said his paper will help those unfamiliar with Eastern Washington agriculture. “My main goal is to educate people because there’s a lot of misunderstandings,” Verhey said. “I think it’s important for these points to be analyzed from an Eastern Washington farming point of view.
Radio station seeks high school choir submissions
Enid News & Eagle – Mar 23, 2008
9 Kiss FM, are inviting high school choirs to record and submit CDs featuring Christmas music to be played on the air during the holiday season. Every Friday, Jack and Ron feature a segment called “Home Grown,” during which they play music submitted by local musical talent. Over the next few weeks, this segment will be expanded by including high school choirs as a way to kick off the holiday season and give on-air exposure to these singers. Submitting a recording and contact information to “The Jack and Ron Show. ” CDs can either be mailed or dropped off at the Kiss-FM offices located at 4045 NW 64th, Suite 600, Oklahoma City, OK 73116. All mail should be addressed to “High School Home Grown: The Jack and Ron Show.
Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)
Asharq Alawsat – Mar 23, 2008
The United States and other nations “will remain in need of the resources of our part of the world in the energy sector for many years to come and that is something that your people should realize,” he said. Saudi Arabia is the world’s biggest crude oil producer and the linchpin of the OPEC producer group, which pumps over a third of global oil supplies. A rising focus on “energy security” by both the Bush administration and Congress has added momentum to efforts to employ home-grown fuel sources like ethanol to reduce U. dependency on oil imports. About 60 percent of U.
SNP bets on the small businessman
Guardian Unlimited – Mar 23, 2008
‘I know business birth rate lags behind that of the UK, which is why we have set an objective to match the UK growth rate by 2011. Entrepreneurship is crucially important in the area of business creation and productivity growth and we know that entrepreneurial attitudes in Scotland are as positive as in the rest of the UK. ‘However, it is not just home-grown entrepreneurs showing confidence in the SNP. There is anecdotal evidence that expats are returning home. ‘I was fearful of an SNP government, but they managed to very cleverly realign themselves as friends of business,’ said Jamie Macnab, a director with estate agents Savills. ‘I was apprehensive they would have that real left-wing ideology of Old Labour, but so far they haven’t done anything to put people off coming to Scotland. ‘New research by Savills has revealed that 283 properties worth more than £1m were sold last year compared with just 163 in 2006.
How the myth of food miles hurts the planet
Guardian Unlimited – Mar 23, 2008
‘The fish was Fife-landed, while the potatoes and broccoli were grown on nearby farms,’ he says. Nor was this a one-off culinary event. For the past six months Mike and Karen and their two children, Sorley and Alex, have consumed only food and drink bought in their home district. This is the Fife Diet, developed by Mike Small as a response to the environmental dangers posed by carbon-emitting imports of Peruvian avocados, Kenyan green beans, New Zealand lamb and all those other foreign foodstuffs that now fill the shelves of our supermarkets. Each of these imported products involves the emission of carbon dioxide from the planes and ships that brought them to our shores… That often requires refrigeration, which requires electricity, which releases carbon dioxide. Estimating how long a product will be kept in a store and how efficient is its refrigeration is not easy to assess, but it has to be done. ‘Then you have to work out how long your product will be kept at home once it has been purchased. You also have to estimate how efficiently it will be cooked. And finally you have to work out how much carbon is involved in its packaging and how much will be emitted in disposing of those wrappers and labels once discarded. ‘For some products, such as crisps, a carbon number is easy to calculate. But for others, the process will be much more awkward.
Scotland must not freeze in the headlights
Sunday Herald – Mar 23, 2008
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And the opportunities? Oil prices are increasingly volatile, reaching record highs of $111 per barrel last Monday. With that will come renewed global efforts to find alternative sources of energy. World-leading Scottish marine energy technology developed and commercialised by home-grown companies, will be in greater demand. As the politically polarising argument in the US over stem-cells sharpens during the presidential election, including a debate over public investment in research during a downturn, collaboration between Scottish business, the public sector and the universities is breaking new ground in life sciences research. US pharma company Wyeth’s partnership with the Scottish government and four of our top research institutions in the translational medicine research collaboration – taking academic solutions to the patient’s bedside – is cutting-edge work that could not have happened anywhere else in the world. We have an edge – we have to use it. Talent, capital and investment flow more freely now than ever before, so global economic volatility affects all economic strategies, ours included.