French fry powered B20 buses...

A trio of undergraduates at the University of Rochester in New York have turn used used cooking oil from fryers in the the school's dining halls into fuel for the shuttle buses that carry students and faculty throughout the campus. The oil is mixed at a four-to-one ratio with regular diesel and requires no engine modifications on the buses. Three undergraduate students (David Borelli, Dan Fink and Eric Weissman) coordinated the entire project. Their first bus will ferry students and faculty to their biodiesel lab for a tour of the facility. Not only will the project recycle cooking oil, it is itself composed of recycled components scrounged from around campus - a used processor, tanks and pumps. Biodiesel and other alternative fuels, whether from fast food byproducts or straight from farm fields, is a great idea for any number of reasons, but it is going to need smart people with practical experience, like the Rochester Three, to turn today's visions into tomorrow's everyday realities.

From teacher to journalist to farmer. Carl Groff's career journey has landed him back on the home farm outside Kirkwood in Lancaster County. He has 25 greenhouses with 1,700 varieties of perennials, 400 kinds of flowering shrubs, and customers up and down the East Coast. Two secrets to his success are word-of-mouth advertising and no credit cards. A story about Groff's Plant Farm is in the Ag Innovations section of the current issue of Lancaster Farming.

How to get a little too close to your horse...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHfyby_veU