http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/24/bell-bioenergy-to-produce-wonderfuel-at-fort-stewart/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/24/bell-bioenergy-to-produce-wonderfuel-at-fort-stewart/#comments Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:07:34 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/24/bell-bioenergy-to-produce-wonderfuel-at-fort-stewart/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/24/bell-bioenergy-to-produce-wonderfuel-at-fort-stewart/feed/ 1 The man who invented powdered peanut butter has inked a deal with the U.S. Dept. of Defense to produce oil and gasoline out of our waste. J.C. Bell, an agricultural scientist in Tifton whom we’ve written about previously on Fresh Loaf, will build a pilot facility at Fort Stewart and several other military bases around the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/atlanta-blogs-today-29/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/atlanta-blogs-today-29/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:05:27 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/atlanta-blogs-today-29/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/atlanta-blogs-today-29/feed/ 0 — Georgia has its own Montauk Monster, and it’s called, simply, Bigfoot. Details will be unveiled Friday, so says Peach Pundit. — Despite evidence to the contrary, Georgia Politics Unfiltered claims, “There is no sex in the courtrooms of Cobb County Superior Court (or the judge’s chambers for that matter).” Does lesbian sex count? — Georgia [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/08/morning-headlines-111/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/08/morning-headlines-111/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:38:44 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/08/morning-headlines-111/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/08/morning-headlines-111/feed/ 0 OLYMPICS: Began today in Beijing (this morning here), at 8:08 p.m. on 8/8/08. MANIC TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS: Scientists have strengthened their prediction that this hurricane season will be above normal. CHRIS REDMAN: Starting the Falcons’ preseason opener Saturday night, but all four QBs will likely take snaps. SUGARLAND: Being sued by former member, coincidentally while the band’s recent album [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/26/biodiesel-will-save-world/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/26/biodiesel-will-save-world/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:45:40 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/26/biodiesel-will-save-world/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/26/biodiesel-will-save-world/feed/ 0 Watch Atlanta alt-fuel hero Rob del Bueno deliver a hypnotic sales pitch to CNN on the merits of biodiesel, the production of which he oversees for Refuel Biodiesel. I swear, del Bueno could sell water to a well. Good thing the product he’s touting — non-petroleum fuel made from recycled cooking oil that’s siphoned [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/worst-gift-asia-ever-gave-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/worst-gift-asia-ever-gave-us/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:31:22 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/worst-gift-asia-ever-gave-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/worst-gift-asia-ever-gave-us/feed/ 3 In the previous post, my colleague Thomas Wheatley refers to kudzu as “the worst gift Asia ever gave us.” Respectfully, I disagree. This is worst gift Asia ever gave us. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/la-times-profiles-atlantas-alt-fuel-hero/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/la-times-profiles-atlantas-alt-fuel-hero/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:45:25 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/la-times-profiles-atlantas-alt-fuel-hero/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/la-times-profiles-atlantas-alt-fuel-hero/feed/ 0 In case you missed it, the L.A. Times published a lengthy profile last week on Rob Del Bueno, Atlanta’s only indie-rocker-turned-biodiesel-purveyor. The story focuses in part on how Del Bueno’s past experience as a member of the “sci-fi surf rock band” Man or Astro-man? plays into his biodiesel ambitions: The emerging world of boutique biodiesel can seem [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/biodiesel-now-available-in-atlanta-247/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/biodiesel-now-available-in-atlanta-247/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:51:35 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/biodiesel-now-available-in-atlanta-247/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/16/biodiesel-now-available-in-atlanta-247/feed/ 0 Thanks to the addition of swipe-card technology, Atlanta’s only biodiesel station is open around the clock to any of you who drive diesels. The station, located at 250 Arizona Ave. just south of DeKalb Avenue, offers 100 percent, eco-friendly biodiesel (as opposed to a biodiesel-diesel blend) and can be mixed with regular diesel. It sells for [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/05/prius-does-100-mph/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/05/prius-does-100-mph/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:29:30 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/05/prius-does-100-mph/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/05/prius-does-100-mph/feed/ 0 I didn’t know a Prius could go that fast. My 1973 Mercedes 220D, which I run on clean, locally produced biodiesel, can only make it up to 80 mph (84 mph downhill). Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:28:52 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/04/25/atlanta-blogs-today-cars-and-more-cars/feed/ 1 For some strange reason people in this metro love to brag about how scared MARTA makes them. I suspect many of these people are the same ones with “No Fear” stickers on their trucks. – Joe Winter at Joeventures.com, quoting a regular MARTA user. Joe has blogged extensively about the Peachtree Street streetcar proposal. He serves [...]