Review of greentechnolog.com

Here is a blog that I came across recently, http://www.greentechnolog.com/. Greentechnolog has some really good articles and links. Reviews on the site range from basics of electric car technology to an article on a college auto club that uses waste vegetable oil, wvo, to run their diesel engines. Links include renewable energy groups, wind farming, solar technology, and more. I give this site two "green thumbs" up!

Aviation use of alternative fuels

Here is an interesting article from Scientific American about the quest for alternative fuels for the military as well as for commercial air traffic.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=flying-environmentally-friendly-skies-on-alternative-fuels

Square Foot Gardening - Book Review

Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew, is an excellent book. The book instructs people how to plan, build, and plant in your garden so that you are able to maximize your space, time, and effort in your garden throughout the growing season.

As outlined in the book, in traditional gardening, we set up our gardens in rows and walk between the rows to access the plants. One of the major problems with this method, as Mel points out, is that we inevitably pack down the soil between the rows and we must then work to turn over the soil and loosen it up for the next spring.

By planting as Mel instructs your garden requires less upkeep from one season to the next but yields more produce per square foot of garden space.

Here is a link to a Green Trust Sustainablility & Renewable Energy site. The site has some good information and products available.
http://www.green-trust.org/
I have a VW diesel and am in the process of building a biodiesel reactor to make my own biodiesel, which is an alternative to petroleum diesel formulated from clean or waste vegetable oil. Biodiesel can be used as a 100% fuel or mixed with petroleum diesel to power your diesel engine. Biodiesel can also be used as a home heating fuel. Be sure to check the compatability of your home heating system with biodiesel prior to using the fuel. Many local fuel oil companies are now carrying biodiesel under various names and percentage mixes. Your fuel company can let you know about the compatibility of your system to burn biodiesel.

Colorado and renewable energy

Here is an interesting article that I found about Colorado and the states ability to provide renewable energy to consumers, possibly as much as 10x what the state currently uses according to calculations by the Colorado Governor's Energy Office. This would be a great benefit, hopefully other states are also looking into implementing or expanding their states' renewable energy programs.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_7875808

Nanotechnology

Here is an article that I found on Green Energy News about a company out of California, http://www.green-energy-news.com/arch/nrgs2007/20070139.html. The company's products are available to customers at a cost of approximately 1 dollar per watt rating of the solar panel.

A friend of mine recently had solar panels installed on his home and he is now putting electric into the grid rather than drawing electric from it. Maybe if more of us were to do the same we could reduce some of the coal or fuel oil fired power plants.

Sport Fishing

I am an avid fisherman, however I strongly believe in maintaining the world's fisheries. I do keep some of the fish that I catch but I return most of what I catch to the water. Most of the fishermen that I associate with also believe in catch and release as well. The earth's fisheries are under tremendous stress from fishing pressure that is being exerted by commercial netting not by the sport fishermen or person who goes fishing to put some meat into his freezer.

Living in a cleaner world

I just started this blog to bring attention to ways to clean up our environment, live "greener," and focus upon renewable resources.

I am very interested in renewable resources, including biodiesel and solar power. I have made biodiesel from a recipe that I found online at http://journeytoforever.org/ but there are plenty of other excellent sites. The fuel is relatively easy to make. I used new vegetable oil but I would use waste vegetable oil, wvo, if I were making it for continual use.

Oil futures hit $100.09 today!!! Another reason to look to renewable energy.