permaculture

[Carl DuPoldt <cdupoldt@yahoo.com>]

NOTICES
Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Program; Program Opportunity
[41 Pa.B. 1970]
[Saturday, April 9, 2011]

 The Department of Environmental Protection (Department), Bureau of Energy, 
Innovations and Technology Deployment announces an opportunity to apply for 
grants under the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant Program (Program) to 
improve this Commonwealth's air quality and reduce consumption of imported 
oil through the use of homegrown alternative fuels that will help this 
Commonwealth's economy and environment. The Department is seeking 
applications for innovative, advanced fuel and vehicle technology projects 
resulting in cleaner advanced alternative transportation within this 
Commonwealth.

 Funding is available for school districts, municipal authorities, political 
subdivisions, nonprofit entities, corporations, limited liability companies 
or partnerships incorporated or registered in this Commonwealth to retrofit 
fleet vehicles to operate on alternative fuels, subsidize the cost of the 
purchase of an alternative fuel vehicle for a fleet or subsidize the cost to 
install fleet refueling equipment for alternative fuel vehicles or support 
next phase advanced research, development and training related to alternative 
fuels and alternative fuel vehicles.

 Funding is also available for school districts, municipal authorities, 
political subdivisions and nonprofit entities to subsidize the incremental 
cost to purchase biofuel and provide refueling and storage equipment or 
related tank cleaning.





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I've often wondered why people seem to think coir is ecological. It is
produced as a byproduct of industrial agriculture that destroys
rainforests and plants monocrops of palms. As permaculturalists we have
to recognize that any outside input impacts the site from which it was
taken. Maybe in our accounting that is acceptable, or maybe it is not.
We can think we're doing good by washing our dishes in coconut oil soap
instead of petrochemical detergents, growing seedlings in coir instead
of peat, but the orangutans who lost their habitat to palm plantations
don't see it that way. We're always causing impacts.