| Erosion-control holdouts being sought for project
In the Lake Tahoe Basin, the letters "BMP" can bring about various reactions.
Short for "best management practices," BMPs are methods prescribed by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to help developed properties function more like natural, undisturbed forest and meadowland. The TRPA believes that water conveyed to a lake by an undisturbed watershed usually is quite pure, because the watershed's soils and plants act as a natural water-purification system.
BMPs prescribed for residential properties usually fall into the following categories: vegetating and mulching bare, disturbed soils; infiltrating stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces; paving dirt driveways and roads; and stabilizing or retaining steep slopes and loose soils.
But for some of the 38,000 property owners in the basin who have not retrofitted their land for BMPs, the requirements can be harsh and expensive.
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Cellulose ethanol production offers several advantages
Many questions are being raised regarding the viability of ethanol. The United States can easily produce 1.3 billion tons per year of cellulose and/or landfill trash. The ethanol produced could replace more than 30 percent of gasoline consumed. According to a 2008 Nebraska study, cellulose ethanol yields about 540 percent more renewable energy than is required to grow and convert it. The tested switchgrass fields produced 320 gallons of ethanol per acre. Producing fuel ethanol from cellulose greatly expands the types and amounts of feedstock available for production. Not only can prairie switchgrass be used, but you can utilize cornstalks, straw, wood chips, tree branches and the county landfill trash. .
Woo pig
I have no tech skills but a search for Arkansas Young Professionals in the little box on the top right of this page does not lead me to an archived link of the lost post mentioned above. Which leads me to a suggestion for a button at the bottom of the main blog page... Back for older posts. Anyway browsing around the net... NYT's Paul Krugman (link at my name) held an online book salon at firedoglake this afternoon with a really good discussion and Ian Welsh wrote a uplifting post/thread afterwards.. Somewhere along thew way I stumbled across this quote by Samuel Adams: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms.
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