BIOFUEL FROM SCOTCH

Mother Jones has a great article about the Scottish start-up environmental company that is turning the surprising amount of waste from Scotch distillery into biofuels. Celtic Renewables takes draff, pot ale, the two main byproducts of Whiskey distillery,  and processes it into biobutanol fuel, animal feed, and acetone. Be careful however, next time you see a Scottish man stumbling out of his local pub it would be to your benefit if you didn't ask to "process his night's waste".

SIN REPRESAS

Watch this great video, "Sin Represas" or "Without Dams", put together by Patagonia about Chile's proposed dams in the heart of patagonia. The video ends with the reminder that the best way to save our recourses is to visit. I wish it were that simple.

BOUNDARY ROCK

I just listened to a great story about the Boundary Rock over at CBC Radio. The search for the fabled rock, lost for over 100 years, is documented in on the CBC's In the Field program, give it a listen and find out where the rock went. (VIA Cold Splinters)









(Looking through pictures of the Tobeatic Wilderness on Flicker makes me itch for some time outdoors.)

Patagonia - Powered by eBay

Nice feature I noticed today on Patagonia's website. It lets users auction their used PataBROnia gear on their site. Sounds like a great idea, their clothes last forever and hopefully you can score some price cuts. (Seriously, $600. Where's my sponsorship?)

UPM

"As the frontrunner of the new forest industry, UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. Our products are made of renewable raw materials and are recyclable."



UPM, an environmentally conscious logging company, runs a great interactive site explaining their forestry practices. Anyone interested in Biodiversity, sustainable forestry, wildlife, or nature in general should check out their Forest Life mini site. Now if only this type of eco responsibility would take hold here in the states something might be done about the environmental crisis the world faces today.