From wrenchwench at blast.com Sat Sep 1 11:00:41 2007 From: wrenchwench at blast.com (Rachel Burton) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 11:00:41 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Ambassadors of Rock in New York Event to Launch The Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance Message-ID: <6304F941-D449-4418-A40D-D809CA0BB04D@blast.com> HARD ROCK?S 2007 AMBASSADORS OF ROCK TOUR IS ?ON THE ROAD AGAIN? WITH MUSIC LEGEND WILLIE NELSON Ambassadors of Rock in New York Features Willie Nelson & Friends, Including Hosts Woody Harrelson and Daryl Hannah Event to Launch The Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance Orlando, Fla., August 21, 2007 ? Hard Rock International is bringing its global Ambassadors of Rock Tour to the ?crossroads of the world? with an ?outlaw country? twist. Known for his amazing string of hits, legendary artist Willie Nelson and friends will bring an unforgettable night of music to Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square on Monday, September 10, 2007. Dedicated to its ?Save the Planet? motto, Hard Rock?s Ambassadors of Rock in New York will also act as the official launch of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, a non-profit organization founded by Willie?s wife Annie Nelson, biodiesel advocate Daryl Hannah and members of the sustainable biodiesel community, to promote sustainable biodiesel practices, including the harvesting, production and distribution of biodiesel fuels. Hard Rock?s September 10th event will make every effort to be eco-friendly, and ?do the right thing,? including an offering of food from family farms, using recycled materials for invitations and marketing materials, and more. The exclusive V.I.P. event, benefiting the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, will be hosted by award-winning actors Woody Harrelson and Daryl Hannah, and will include a green carpet, featuring special appearances by several of Nelson?s closest friends and family. That evening, Willie will also be joined his sons? band, 40 Points, and his daughter?s band, Folk Uke, for a special live performance. ?Some of the biggest names in music have become part of our Ambassadors of Rock program over the last two years ? from The Who and M?tley Cr?e to Aerosmith, The All-American Rejects and P!NK. We are thrilled that Willie Nelson joins the exclusive list of Hard Rock ?Ambassadors,?? said Sean Dee, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Hard Rock International. ?We are also proud to support Willie?s Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance and take action as a company towards a cleaner, greener Earth.? - more - Ambassadors of Rock ? Add One As a songwriter and performer, Nelson has won Grammy? Awards, a President's Merit Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. His credits include "Georgia On My Mind," "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys," "On The Road Again," "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Stay A Little Longer.? More importantly, his work with important global charities, including Farm Aid and recently the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, has generated millions of dollars and worldwide exposure for worthwhile causes. The day before his Hard Rock appearance, Willie will also be performing at Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival at Randall?s Island in New York City, alongside several other musicians and supporters of the cause. Save The Planet! Committed to its ?Save the Planet? motto, Hard Rock is partnering with Willie Nelson to create an environmentally-friendly event ? no easy task for a location in Times Square. Efforts include locally grown and organic food from family farms and recycling the event decor. In lieu of gift bags, which can lead to more waste, Hard Rock will make a donation to the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance on behalf of each guest in attendance that evening. In addition, moving forward, New York-based Tri State Biodiesel will collect waste grease from Hard Rock Cafe New York to be recycled into clean, renewable Biodiesel fuel, in order to fuel up vehicles on the road ? like Willie Nelson?s famous tour bus! ?Hard Rock is exploring all possible sustainable innovations for this event, from renewable energy use to waste reduction and responsible purchasing,? said Corina Beczner, green event specialist for the project. ?Hard Rock?s dedication to the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance is a great start, and supporting local, family farms and clean energy solutions through this event further demonstrates the brand?s commitment and integrity in saving the planet.? Rockin? for a Great Cause ? and a Chance for Fans to Attend this Amazing Event! As part of Ambassadors of Rock in New York, Hard Rock will host an online auction to directly benefit the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance. Fans will be able to visit www.hardrock.com to bid on: ? Two pairs of tickets to Ambassadors of Rock event in New York on September 10th to see Willie Nelson and friends perform. The winning bid gets two tickets to the event, and unless you know someone in Willie?s camp ? this is the only way to be part of this memorable night! (Dates of auction: August 22, 2007 through September 2, 2007) - more - Ambassadors of Rock ? Add Two ? A custom-made Hard Rock Ambassadors of Rock Gibson guitar, autographed by Willie Nelson and friends at Ambassadors of Rock in New York. The highest bidder will receive the Willie Nelson- autographed Ambassadors of Rock guitar, along with photo documentation of Willie and friends signing the guitar at the event. (Dates of auction: September 26, 2007 through October 7, 2007) Making Rock History! In addition to an unforgettable performance, Willie Nelson will also donate pieces of memorabilia to Hard Rock. Following the concert, Willie will donate his stage clothes from the event, including his signature red bandana and custom-made New Balance? ?Willie Nelson? sneakers, which will be permanently added to Hard Rock?s world-famous memorabilia collection. Hard Rock?s Ambassadors of Rock Tour For the second year, Ambassadors of Rock will bring together Hard Rock Cafes, Live venues, Hotels and Casinos around the globe to help spread the universal language of rock. Nelson, one of the country?s most iconic music stars, joins an eclectic group of artists on Hard Rock?s 2007 Ambassadors of Rock Tour, including Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel and Crowded House in London; All-American Rejects in Orlando co-sponsored by Pepsi Smash; and P!NK at the Dubai tour stop. Additional artists will be announced with events scheduled for Hollywood (Fla.), Las Vegas, Tokyo, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Singapore and Madrid. About The Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance The Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, Inc. (?SBA?) is a non-profit organization created to promote sustainable biodiesel practices, including the harvesting, production and distribution of biodiesel fuels. The ultimate goal is to create best practices standards and protocols for verifying that all points in the production and distribution chain are in compliance with the SBA?s certification standards. Those receiving SBA certification will be supported by the SBA through on-going education campaigns that will include outreach programs and maps identifying the locations of the production and distribution points. For further information, please visit www.sustainablebiodieselalliance.com. - more - Ambassadors of Rock ? Add Three About Farm Aid Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival will take place on Sunday, September 9 at Randall?s Island in New York City. The day-long festival will promote food from family farmers and raise funds for Farm Aid?s work throughout the year to strengthen family farm agriculture. The show will feature great talent from a variety of musical genres, including Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, joined by Tim Reynolds, as well as Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Band, Counting Crows, Matisyahu, Guster, Derek Trucks Band, Warren Haynes, Supersuckers and Montgomery Gentry. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds and The Allman Brothers Band are scheduled to play full festival sets. About Hard Rock International With 123 high-energy Hard Rock Cafes and eight Hotels/Casinos in 46 countries, Hard Rock International is one of the world?s most globally recognized brands. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world?s greatest collection of music memorabilia, which is displayed at its locations around the globe. Hard Rock is also known for its collectible fashion and music-related merchandise, Hard Rock Live performance venues and an award-winning website. In addition to the two flagship Seminole Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos in Tampa and Hollywood, Fla., Hard Rock Hotels/Casinos are located in Las Vegas, Biloxi, Orlando, Chicago, Pattaya and Bali, with San Diego scheduled to open later in 2007. Additional hotel and casino projects have been announced in Palm Springs and Macau, scheduled to open in 2009. Hard Rock International, Inc. is owned by Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment, Inc. For more information on Hard Rock, visit www.hardrock.com. # # # From eblandsburg at theenergy.coop Mon Sep 17 11:17:43 2007 From: eblandsburg at theenergy.coop (Emily Bockian Landsburg) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:17:43 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] lab reference Message-ID: <007301c7f93d$e68add10$cd00a8c0@plutonew> Is anybody working with Midwest Laboratories (https://www.midwestlabs.com/index3.html)? What has been your experience (accuracy, precision, turn-around-times, etc)? Thanks for the feedback, Emily -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.emji.net/pipermail/sustainable-biodiesel/attachments/20070917/11f8dfc3/attachment.htm From AHudgins at aacog.com Mon Sep 17 12:18:17 2007 From: AHudgins at aacog.com (Andrew Hudgins) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:18:17 -0500 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Sustainable Biodiesel market models Message-ID: Emily, I hope all is well in the sustainable Biodiesel world. I wanted to let you know about a workshop I am putting on in October regarding the expansion of the Biodiesel market here in San Antonio. Through this process (I have made this clear to all those involved/invited) the focus will be on using local resources for local transportation needs. I have attached the original invitation e-mail to this message. I spoke with Annie Nelson and Kelly King at the Texas Biodiesel Conference regarding what I am trying to do and I am keeping them in the loop. My question to you is - can you direct me to any good studies, reports, factoids, etc. on the establishment and/or benefits of community-based, sustainable Biodiesel markets? Thanks for you help!! Andrew P. Hudgins Clean Cities Coordinator Alamo Area Council of Governments 8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 700 San Antonio, Texas 78217 phone: (210) 362-5228 fax: (210) 225-5937 www.aacog.com/cleancities -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Andrew Hudgins" Subject: Alamo Area Biodiesel Workshop and Stakeholder Meeting on October 18th!! Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:42:01 -0500 Size: 42208 Url: http://lists.emji.net/pipermail/sustainable-biodiesel/attachments/20070917/78c46802/attachment-0001.eml From eblandsburg at theenergy.coop Tue Sep 25 08:53:51 2007 From: eblandsburg at theenergy.coop (Emily Bockian Landsburg) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:53:51 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Congrats Dan! Message-ID: <000c01c7ff73$206dfef0$cd00a8c0@plutonew> Hey Dr. Dan, Congrats on your new station! http://seattlest.com/2007/09/24/biodiesel_just.php ________________________________ Emily Bockian Landsburg Manager of Business Development The Energy Cooperative / Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel 1218 Chestnut Street, Suite 1003 Philadelphia, PA 19107 t: 215-413-2122 f: 215-413-2140 www.theenergy.coop www.fryodiesel.com **This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel Inc, and/or its affiliates that may be confidential and proprietary. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system.** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.emji.net/pipermail/sustainable-biodiesel/attachments/20070925/6b6a143f/attachment.htm From emily at fryodiesel.com Tue Sep 25 09:00:21 2007 From: emily at fryodiesel.com (Emily B. Landsburg) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:00:21 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Sustainable Biodiesel market models In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <001101c7ff74$08bd2050$cd00a8c0@plutonew> Hi Andrew, Sorry for delayed response. Unfortunately I don't have any resources to offer specifically relating to biodiesel...but perhaps you could borrow information from generic studies about the value of local/sustainable businesses and apply those to biodiesel businesses. Resources might include the Institute for Local Self Reliance (http://www.ilsr.org/) and Balle (http://www.livingeconomies.org/). Emily -----Original Message----- From: sustainable-biodiesel-bounces at lists.emji.net [mailto:sustainable-biodiesel-bounces at lists.emji.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Hudgins Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:18 PM To: sustainable-biodiesel at lists.emji.net Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] Sustainable Biodiesel market models Emily, I hope all is well in the sustainable Biodiesel world. I wanted to let you know about a workshop I am putting on in October regarding the expansion of the Biodiesel market here in San Antonio. Through this process (I have made this clear to all those involved/invited) the focus will be on using local resources for local transportation needs. I have attached the original invitation e-mail to this message. I spoke with Annie Nelson and Kelly King at the Texas Biodiesel Conference regarding what I am trying to do and I am keeping them in the loop. My question to you is - can you direct me to any good studies, reports, factoids, etc. on the establishment and/or benefits of community-based, sustainable Biodiesel markets? Thanks for you help!! Andrew P. Hudgins Clean Cities Coordinator Alamo Area Council of Governments 8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 700 San Antonio, Texas 78217 phone: (210) 362-5228 fax: (210) 225-5937 www.aacog.com/cleancities From emily at fryodiesel.com Fri Sep 28 16:31:10 2007 From: emily at fryodiesel.com (Emily B. Landsburg) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:31:10 -0400 Subject: [Sustainable-biodiesel] sustainable fuels hit The Onion Message-ID: <013b01c8020e$82db7fc0$cd00a8c0@plutonew> Just for fun: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_eco_friendly_packaging New Eco-Friendly Packaging Triggers Boom In Guilt-Free Littering The Onion (July 21, 2007) Issue 43.29 ROCKFORD, IL-Nick Sundin used to be neurotic about littering. The 37-year-old pediatrician admits he kept trash bags in his car, and would even pick up and throw away garbage he found on the street. Since boyhood, Sundin said, he was keenly attuned to the environmental degradation littering caused, an attitude triggered by the famous Keep America Beautiful "Crying Indian" public service announcement he saw on television as a young man. Not anymore. "These 'eco' products are amazing-they've totally changed my life," Sundin said. "Now, I just toss my used Seventh Generation-brand paper plates out the car window, knowing they'll soon be absorbed into the earth." The growing "green" trend in product packaging, which emphasizes the use of recycled, biodegradable post-consumer paper-based materials and relies less on petroleum-derived polymers like styrofoam, has unleashed a spontaneous trashing of sidewalks, roadsides, and pristine wilderness by gratified consumers. Though some environmentalists and scientists were caught off guard by the movement, experts say it is here to stay. "The stigma attached to littering is at long last being put to rest," industry analyst Tom Schneider said. "As long as manufacturers are packaging their goods in unbleached paper and biodegradable, cornstarch-based plastics, more and more consumers will discard their refuse wherever they please, knowing it will safely decompose within 10 to 20 years. Call it the 'New Compost.'" "PITCH OUT." Environmentally conscious consumers litter a New Mexico roadside with earth-safe eco-waste. The reaction from "neo-litterbugs" like Sundin has been nothing less than ecstatic. Highway littering shot up 6 percent nationwide in the last weeks of 2006, shortly after retail giant Wal-Mart announced its intention to encourage its tens of thousands of suppliers worldwide to reduce packaging materials. And now that McDonald's is incorporating post-consumer materials into some of its packaging, Golden Arches-decorated wrappers and cups are becoming common sites in public parks, residential districts, Civil War battlegrounds, peregrine falcon nesting boxes, and coastal tide pools. Consumers are also growing more packaging-conscious, checking containers and boxes for recycled and post-consumer content to ensure that, once used, they can be properly wasted. Receiving a decorative metal tin of cheese popcorn on Administrative Professionals Day in April delighted Miramar, FL medical records supervisor Donna Kern. Finding out that the tin contained 80 percent recycled material delighted her even more. "I never used to know what to do with those tins, so they just created clutter in my home," Kern said. "But when I saw that this one was made of recycled metal and nontoxic paint, I went and sank it in the Everglades. Now I'm going through my home to see what other environmentally friendly things I can throw away or burn. Caring about nature has never been so fun." Eco-littering, however, is just one of the ways the public is embracing the green idea. The growing popularity of flex-fuel cars, which can run on regular gasoline or the ethanol-hydrocarbon compound known as E85, means more people can enjoy old-fashioned Sunday joyrides and short drives to the neighborhood supermarket without fretting about wasting nonrenewable fuel. Compact fluorescent lightbulbs now save the trouble of turning off lights. And cleaner-burning fuels and sustainable energy sources such as wind and solar power are making the longtime dream of running household appliances at all hours a reality. "Since they began discussing the construction of that offshore wind farm, I don't worry about leaving my air conditioner and television on for my cats when I go away," Worcester, MA retiree Herk Ellroy said. "They can get very hot. And lonely." The new prevalence of eco-friendly packaging is the culmination of a decades-long struggle between environmentalists and the business community. Still, some activists are dissatisfied with the results. To curb the new littering, the Sierra Club is now suggesting that all consumer packaging be coated with a toxic, nonbiodegradable polymer all consumer packaging be coated with a toxic, nonbiodegradable polymer that would kill wildlife and poison groundwater unless products were disposed of in heavy plastic garbage bags. ----------______________________________ Emily Bockian Landsburg Manager of Business Development Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel 1218 Chestnut St. Suite 1003, Philadelphia, PA 19107 t:215 413 2122 f:215 413 2140 www.fryodiesel.com **This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel Inc, and/or its affiliates that may be confidential and proprietary. 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