Michael Theroux's Teru Talk addresses matters pertaining to waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuel,s and other bio-based products for resource recovery.
On occasion, Teru is out and about or stumbles upon information that you need to know or may just find interesting in the world of waste conversion for resource recovery. That's why Focus Reports were invented.
TERU Focus Report on NYSERDA Funds Biomass and CHP Microgrids, 13 of 83 NY Prize Stage 1 Awards Include CHP, Waste, Biomass Energy Recovery. 07/13/2015
TERU Focus Report on CEC Awards for Waste & Biomass Conversion - California Energy Commission Approves $83.7 Million in Grants for Transportation, Energy Storage, Biogas, and Efficiency Programs. 04/13/2015
TERU Focus Report on California Organics Management Legislative Update by Michael Theroux, and The Green Waste Landfill Cover-Up - by the California Compost Coalition . 09/05/2014
TERU Focus Report on Back from the Biomass Forum. Highlights of the California Biomass Collaborative's 8th Annual Forum, including The Great Debate. 04/16/2011
TERU Focus Report on the Interagency Forest Working Group's trip to the south end of the Lake Tahoe Basin for "What We've Learned" discussions walking through the devastated area of the Angora Fire of 2007. 10/15/2010
Composting and biochar production are both methods to use and recycle organic wastes. Article by Marta Camps, Massey University; and Thayer Tomlinson, International Biochar Initiative. February 2015
"AB 32 and the Waste Management Sector" by Michael Theroux. California Recycling's Place in Greenhouse Gas Reduction. June 2013 Reference to commentary added 07/12/2013
California AB 341 Legislative Review by Michael Theroux. New Diversion Law Modifies California's Integrated Waste Management Act. June 2012 (Revised July 2013)
Page 2: California AB 341 Legislative Review by Michael Theroux. New Diversion Law Modifies California's Integrated Waste Management Act. June 2012 (Revised July 2013)
Linking Bioenergy Crop Development with Soil and Water Phytoremediation by Michael Theroux. Explores the use of Short-Rotation Woody Crop
trees for both production of biomass and phyto-remediation of contaminated soils. May 2007, revised April 2011
Previous Articles by Michael Theroux archived on Teru Talk on waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bioproducts for resource recovery.
Discussion of the difference between "dirty" incineration and "clean" conversion, a bright line not yet clearly defined in laymen’s terms and therefore not commonly accepted, by Michael Theroux.
Document files available for download on Teru Talk associated with waste conversion to renewable energy, biofuels and other bioproducts for resource recovery.
Teru's Bookshelf: "CHAGALL: The Recycling Dragon" This book is about a young dragon, only 300-years old who lives in a canyon near a village. His home is threatened by piles of garbage being dumped into his home.
NEW! Teru's Bookshelf: "Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental Frontier" by Paul Relis. (April 2015) The book takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world of government and policy, to important new environmental technologies that can, indeed, free us from this age of oil.
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