Sustainable Biofuels & Local Climate Change Solutions Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at MidState Technical College’s Wisconsin Rapids Campus 500 32nd Street North, Wisconsin Rapids, WI Featuring presentations by Great Lakes BioFuels Click here for the event brochure (PDF) or here for the detailed schedule (MS Word document) Past "Sustainable Biofuels & Local Climate Change Solutions" workshops at Madison Area Technical College (6/26/07) and Gateway Technical College, Sturtevant, WI (8/14/07) featured presentations by Tony Hartmann and Jamie Derr of Great Lakes Biofuels. Click here to view the PDF brochure of the workshop. (opens in a new window)   Great Lakes BioFuels and strategic partners get a look at Wisconsin's first large scale (20M gallon per year) biodiesel refinery (9/28/06). DeForest, WI - The tour was led by Sanimax's new plant manager, Russ Reid. The group is pictured here on the rail loading dock, just in front of the facility's 1M gallon tank farm. The plant is set to begin production in December of this year, using largely recycled (yellow) grease and cooking oil as feedstock. Great Lakes BioFuels collaborates with O'Brien Farms to develop a mobile oil extraction & biodiesel processing unit (8/15/06) The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has awarded a grant to Great Lakes BioFuels and O’Brien Farms of Oregon, Wisconsin for the research and development of a mobile processing unit that can process oilseeds into finished biodiesel right on the farm. Read the Brownfield Ag News story and listen to an interview with Great Lakes BioFuels' CEO here. For Love of Grease: Alternative Fuels Gaining Acceptance (4/27/06) The Madison Capital Times story featuring Great Lakes BioFuels and the PrairieFire BioFuels coop is available here. Biodiesel Use Grows as Energy Prices Rise (4/22/06) Read the Wisconsin State Journal article featuring Great Lakes BioFuels here. High Prices Brighten the Prospect For Beans Read the story on Great Lakes BioFuels from the Fitchburg Star here.

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