Weblog: Treehugger
Source: Green Oscars Update: Kate Bosworth Gets the Party Started!
Link: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/03/green_oscars_up.php

Perhaps we might get some answers to Collin's questions during tonight's Global Green USA Oscar Party. The party, hosted to benefit global warming initiatives (including the green rebuilding of New Orleans) promises to rock the house with a sold-out concert emceed by Pras Michel of the Fugees, featuring performances by Liz Phair, Money Mark, Fishbone, Tracy Lyons, and DJs Señor Amor and Peanut Butter Wolf.
Setting the pace for the party will be Kate Bosworth, planning to arrive chauffeured by Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti in his own electric car. Additional celebrity attendees will arrive in a variety of alternative fueled vehicles including Honda Civics powered by natural gas, Ford Hybrid Escapes, Toyota’s electric RAV 4’s and various biodiesel cars.
Ever the smarty-starlet, Frances McDormand takes all this celeb tree-hugging up a notch: “I say we should all walk or rent bikes, but that would determine a new and interesting Oscar dress code.” Perhaps she might consider Jan's Klingberg's Adidé green Oscar gown. Via Global Green - thank you Ruben!

Weblog: Ask MetaFilter
Source: Which will be bigger: biodiesel or ethanol fuel?
Link: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/32771

Should I invest in companies developing biodiesel or ethanol fuel?There has been a lot of discussion everywhere lately about alternative energy sources. Electricity is nice, but, in a nutshell, batteries won't store NEARLY as much energy as fuel for some time, and people like to drive and live in the boonies, etc. I'd like to figure out which technology has the more promising future. Biodiesel is already a going concern, a big concern in some places. Then I see cellulosic ethanol production being touted by a high-profile ex-oilman, and read that a lot of cars in Brazil run on ethanol from sugar cane, and I don't know.

Weblog: Autopia
Source: EPA Change Affects Ethanol Demand
Link: http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cars/index.blog?entry_id=1415248


The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer require that reformulated gasoline contain oxygenates, which could lessen the demand for ethanol in some areas. For more than a decade, reformulated fuel has been required to contain 2% oxygen so that it would burn cleaner.

Weblog: Autoblog
Source: BioWillie debuts in California
Link: http://www.autoblog.com/2006/02/15/biowillie-debuts-in-california/

Filed under: Trends, Hybrids/Alternative

Producer and distributor Earth Biofuels announced today at the 2006 National Biodiesel Conference& Expo, in San Diego, California, U.S., that its product, BioWillie B20-brand biodiesel, is now available for salein the Golden State. Singer and biodiesel advocate Willie Nelson, who had been attending the expo, participated in theevent.