" title="Ithaca Biodiesel Cooperative"> Ithaca Biodiesel Cooperative

In our efforts to bolster the grease world by maintaining a level of transparency for other grassroots biofuels movements, we’ve created an Ithaca Biodiesel Cooperative Resource Guide, an excerpt from a document that we just delivered to the Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals . It contains information about relevant codes and regulations as well as some details about the biodiesel making process. Get in touch with us if you would like to see our site specific plans or have questions about any of the steps that we’re taking to get the Ithaca area driving on locally made renewable fuels. And keep watching…we’re checking things off of the list.

Thanks to Ari Moore of Shirari Industries for creating some exciting images for us.

We’re getting ready to move into the next phase of planning for our new shop. That might sound like a lot of someday stuff, but we’re making it happen, people! We met with the Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals tonight. They were pretty supportive of our sustainable fuel venture given that making biodiesel doesn’t fit into any kind of standard zoning category. We need a use variance on our future home and the Zoning Board of Appeals would like to see our detailed plans. That can only mean one thing: time to engineer! Woo hoo, we’re going to design.

Want to help us save the world…or at least help us make local and sustainable fuel for our community? Then come to Ithaca’s Town Hall to support us before the Planning Department Zoning Board of Appeals:

Monday, October 24
7:00-9:00 pm
Town Board Room at Town Hall
215 North Tioga Street

We’ve requested a use variance at 614 South Elmira Road. There’s so much potential!

We look forward to seeing you on Monday where we’ll be making the case for biodiesel in our town, and saving the world.