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Resources

WORC Resources

Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal, a fact sheet on net energy.

Clean Cities Initiative, volunteer program facilitated by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (pdf 330k)

Biofuels Sucess Stories: Using Biofuels in the West. (pdf 402k)

Clean Renewable Energy, slide presentation on the economic and environmental advantages of clean, renewable fuel for electricity and transportation. (pdf 136k)

Existing and proposed biofuels plants in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado and Oregon.(pdf 94k)

Biodiesel: Powering Through the Winter, information on cold flow properties. (pdf 322k)

Other Reports & Articles

Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Common Sense on Biofuels, by Patrick Mazza

Unlocking the Promise of Ethanol: Promoting ethanol while protecting air quality, by the Natural Resources Defense Council (pdf 134k)

Big Oil v. Ethanol: The Consumer State in Expanding the Production of Liquid Fuels, by Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America (pdf 152k)

Home Grown Energy Security - The Potential for Chemicals, Fuels and Power from Prairie Grass, by the Great Plains Institute (pdf 2.37 MB)

Biofueling Rural Development: Making the Case for Linking Biofuel Production to Rural Revitalization by Jim Kleinschmit, Carsey Institute (pdf 197k)

Energizing Rural America – Local Ownership of Renewable Energy Production Is the Key, by David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (pdf 1mb)

Strange Legislative History of the Cellulosic Ethanol Mandate and Putting the Pieces Together: Commercializing Ethanol from Cellulose, by David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Create Clean Energy and Build Local Economies with Biofuel , by David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, (audio file)

The Carbohydrate Economy, Biofuels and the Net Energy Debate, by David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (pdf 990kb)

Ethanol defended against Consumer Report critique.

The New Harvest by the Energy Foundation (pdf 2.5MB)

Growing Energy by the Natural Resoures Defense Council (pdf 1.2MB)

Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (pdf 1.2MB)