Bio-D neophytes, there's a fuel-mixin mixer at Path to Freedom, on the 7th of March.
The California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference sparked a small explosion in enthusiasm among local Biodiesel hackers. To create their community, they're holding workshop/class/potluck events where people can gather, socialize, and learn about an alternative fuel that's not just "green" but works in existing diesel engines, without modification.
The conference highlighted the business and policy challenges that small-scale producers (who make less than a million gallons of fuel per year) are facing from the growing biodiesel cartel, which is dominated by large corporations.
Biodiesel is a diesel fuel created from vegetables, or used vegetable oil, that is a replacement for diesel fuel. It's considered extremely "green" because it releases no new carbon dioxide into the air (the plants took it from the air originally).
Alert: Report From the California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference by Ross Plesset
Biodiesel Collectivo vs. Greyhound Monopoly by moth
A survey of the current scene from Jennifer Murphy.
Photos from Ross Plesset
Special thanks to local peace activists Ross and Jennifer for writing these stories for IMC.
(Taken from KPFK.org, written by Mumia Abu Jamal)
On March 8th 2004, women around the world in LA, England, Argentina, Uganda,
Peru, Philadelphia, San Francisco, in Guyana, in southern India, in Trinidad
and Tobago, in Spain, women will be staging the 5th Global Women's Strike.
A movement involving women in some sixty countries many involved in
grassroots organizations. Fighting for payment for housework, for clean
safe water resources, for housing, education, gender justice, and peace. In
a world where war is now our norm, the Global Women's Strike is part of the
vast throng against war and occupation. Not only in Iraq, but in Palestine,
in Columbia, in the Congo and in Kashmir. Their organizing slogan, which
unites strikers from a broad array of struggles, is deceptively simple:
'Invest in Caring not Killing.'
Events have been going on this weekend, and the main event is at Immanuel Presbyterian Church on Monday the 8th, International Women's Day. Read the events calendar for details.
Global Women's Strike Website