Recent additions (no endorsements!--you need to go through and evaluate them, as you're doing with the website project)--it's your job to consider the sources, what their motives might be. Remember some basics, like the potential differences between .coms and .orgs. Also keep in mind--by providing you with resources, my intent is not to make this an easy assignment, but to relieve some of the research burden, allowing you to spend more time going through the information and drawing some well-supported conclusions.

• From NRDC--their resident scientist (Bill Chaimedes) on biofuels
• a relatively positive take focusing on the Midwest US from NRDC's magazine (you should cite the original source if you use stuff like this)
• Green Car Congress (an energy site for the lay person)
• Appolo Alliance (good for policy, it's an alliance of businesses and policymakers)
• Google search from the CommonDreams website (many articles)
• Some public policy ideas (from the Renewable Fuels Association--supporters of ethanol. It discusses state-specific actions)
• A take on biodiesel from Canada
• bulkoil.com (you'll have to check this one out--gets at supply and such, but these are mostly edible oils. It bills itself as a 'trade board for biodiesel and edible oils')
• PlantDrive home page (I can see it now . . . the Ford Canola!)
• Greasecar vegetable fuel systems (discusses conversion kits)
• Journey to forever (some of these sell biofuel conversion kits)
• Permaculture Activist (they address farming issues as well as home consumption stuff)
• Resources on Peak Oil from Washington Monthly -- check out the hyperlinks
• Amory Lovins on automobile fuel efficiency (video)
• The Official site of the National Biodiesel Board (a national trade association site)
• Biodiesel America -- somewhat self-promoting, but there are some resources of value here (like the map of biodiesel co-ops in the U.S.)
• from Oregon Environmental Council (here's a map of biodiesel fueling points in Portland)
• Harvesting Clean Energy (some basic resources here, and links)

Biofuels sources

• Radio broadcast on the merits of ethanol (from the 'Against the Grain' series--you can download or stream)
• Wikipedia page
• Switchgrass (Netherlands site)
• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Biofuels page
• Alternative Fuels Data Center (U.S. Dept. of Energy)

Websites

• National Biodiesel Board
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• The Apollo Alliance
• Oregon Environmental Council's Biofuels page
• Oregon Dept. of Agriculture Biodiesels page
• Oregon State University Extension Service 2007 report on biofuels
• Northwest Biofuels Assocation
• Agriculture Marketing Resource Center (page on biomass)
• U.S. Dept. of Energy Alternative fuels data center
• Looking for information on Oregon's budget (some useful links--NOT the ultimate resource)?
• Oregon Farm Bureau (now gee, why would he put this up here?)
• The Land Institute (lots of innovative ideas and research about permaculture--here's a brief primer on soil erosion)

Articles, publications, research

• fireangel. 2007. Has the algae cavalry arrived (posted by HeadingOut at theoildrum.com)? May 11, online at www.theoildrum.com/node/2531
• John Benneman. 2007. Algal biodiesel: Fact or fiction? Posted May 14 to R-Squared (Energy Blog). Online at http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2007/05/algal-biodiesel-fact-or-fiction.html
• Abid Aslam. 2006. Save the taxpayer, spur the economy, save the planet. One World, April 26. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0414-07.htm
• Reuters News Agency. 2008. Biofuel land demand puts peasants at risk. June 2. Online at www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9364/ (page from FAO conference)
• Amartya Sen. 2008. Will the rich get hungrier? New York Times, May 28. Online at www.truthout.org/article/the-rich-get-hungrier
• Peter Ford. 2008. Why the era of cheap food is over. January 7, Christian Science Monitor. Online at www.alternet.org/environment/72532/
• From Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) -- the 'hidden battle to control the world's food supply'
• from the Land Institute (an economic analysis)
• From John Ikerd (who visited EOU two years ago) on the 'promise and perils of biofuels'
• George Monbiot. 2007. Biofuelds could kill more people than the Iraq War. Nov. 10, Alternet. Online at www.alternet.org/healthwellness/67478/?page=entire
• Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 2004. Eating fossil fuels. Online at www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
• Developing switchgrass as a bioenergy crop (from Purdue University researchers)
• 'The Long Emergency' (an article about the post-hydrocarbon era by James Howard Kunstler--we read it in class)
• Natural Resources Defense Council (this is their 'clean air and energy' page)
• Argonne National Laboratories transporation site
• U.S. Dept. of Energy Biomass program
• U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Link to article looking at tax exemptions used in Germany to encourage biofuel production, use
• European Union looks at biofuels
• 'The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials' (the abstract, the article is in the journal Science--available from the library; also see abstract for 'ethanol can contribute to energy and environmental goods', also in Science)
• From the Journal of BioScience, 'Renewable energy: Current and potential issues.'
• Good sources on food production from Mother Jones Magazine
• Lester Brown and Jonathon Lewis. 2008. Ethanol's failed promise. Washington Post, Apr 22. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042102555.html
• Joel Bourne. 2007. Green Dreams. National Geographic, Oct. Online at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/10/biofuels/biofuels-text
• James Ridgeway. 2008. Scrubbing King Coal. Mother Jones, May. Online at www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/05/scrubbing-king-coal.html
• Michael Grunwald. 2008. The clean energy scam. Time, Mar 28.
• Some not convinced about biofuels . . .
• Cahal Minmo. 2008. Biofuel: the burning question. The Independent, Apr 15.
• The complexities of the food crisis.

Corporate / Organization sites

• World Energy, LLC
• Piedmont Biofuels (a cooperative, if you're looking for a different organizational design)
• Monsanto UK
• Pacific Biodiesel
• GreenFuels Technology Corporation
• SeQuential Biofuels
• Imperium Renewables
• BP's alternative energy page

Groups for the biofuels project: