FIRE PREVENTION STRATEGIES, STORM CLEANUP

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 32

Wood processing companies on the front lines describe their role in creating defensible spaces to prevent or deter fires, as well as cleaning up after significant storms.

Rhodes Yepsen and Nora Goldstein

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PRAGMATIC FARM COMPOSTERS FORGE NEW PATH TO RESOURCE RECOVERY

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 36

What began with delivery of sawdust to horse farmettes has blossomed into a model small-scale operation that is building regulator confidence in farm composting of off-farm organics.

Rhodes Yepsen

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CULTIVATING ENERGY CROP PRODUCTION

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 53

BIOMASS ENERGY OUTLOOK

Mark Jenner

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TRUE CONFESSIONS

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 21

Climate Change Connections

Sally Brown

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TENNESSEE COMPOSTING FACILITY RISES FROM THE ASHES

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 28

Quick action on the part of the firefighting team saved five rotary digesters, but the Memorial Day fire destroyed the compost building and tip floor.

Robert Spencer

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CONTAMINANT REMOVAL

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 41

WHAT'S NEW?

Specialized equipment can improve materials processing and compost product quality.

Craig Coker

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HEALTH IMPACTS OF COMPOSTING AIR EMISSIONS

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 44

There have been significant contributions to the literature on composting operations in the past decade. Most address on-site investigations relevant to worker health.

Ellen Z. Harrison

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VERMICOMPOST TEA PRODUCTION AND PLANT GROWTH IMPACTS

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 51

Ohio State research finds that aerating vermicompost tea during brewing results in significant growth responses, even at the lowest concentration tested. Part I

Norman Q. Arancon, Clive A. Edwards, Richard Dick and Linda Dick

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ETHANOL PRODUCTION GOES TO THE COWS, NOT THE CORN

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 54

Business model places ethanol facilities near population and livestock centers, not in the nation's corn belt.

Diane Greer

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GAS UTILITY TAPS INTO FARM DIGESTER BIOGAS

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 57

Adjusting to a fluctuating feed rate and more frequent quality monitoring are among the hurdles jumped as dairy sells upgraded biogas to Michigan utility.

Charles Hauska

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FLEETS FUEL UP ON BIODIESEL BLENDS

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 61

In 2006, East Tennesseans used the equivalent of roughly two million gallons of B100 biodiesel. Most was consumed by fleets which have blends delivered directly to their sites.

Jonathan Overly

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REGIONAL ROUNDUP

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 14

Montclair, New Jersey
UNIVERSITY TAKES ON FOOD WASTE WITH ROTARY DIGESTER
Montclair University, New Jersey's second largest school (after Rutgers) recently purchased an aerobic digester to compost campus food residuals. Nicholas Smith-Sebasto, Associate Professor in the school's Department of Earth and Environmental Science, received a $25,000 grant from the John and

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BIOCYCLE WORLD

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 6

COMMENTS REQUESTED ON SUSTAINABLE SITES DRAFT REPORT

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI) is developing national, voluntary standards and guidelines for sustainable land development and management practices, as well as metrics to assess site performance and a rating system to recognize achievement. SSI is a partnership of the American

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EDITORIAL

BioCycle November 2007, Vol. 48, No. 11, p. 4

BRIDGE TO SUSTAINABILITY

EACH FALL, we publish a BioCycle Media Planner - a marketing tool for current and prospective advertisers in our magazine. The front cover of the Planner highlights the core message we want to convey. For several years, that message has been the “Power of Organics” - a phrase that captures the benefits of organics recycling for healthy soils, clean water and power and fuel generation. Each issue

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