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The Green Gulfstream: Flying to Paris on Biofuels Forbes

Last week a Honeywell Gulfstream G-450 flew on biofuel made from camelina seed — an inedible plant — without the smallest snafu.

Although the US Federal Aviation Administration hasn’t jet approved Honeywell’s Green Jet Fuel, Honeywell was given a waiver for the flight.

it will take some years before supply ramps up to begin servicing the 60 billion-gallon annual global market for petroleum aviation fuel. Nevertheless, this is a big breakthrough.

Green Jet Fuel is essentially recycling the carbon that had already been absorbed from the atmosphere by the camelina plants before they were harvested on farmland in Montana. A company called Sustainable Oils crushed and processed the seeds, which Honeywell then refined into jet fuel at a facility in Houston.

Montana’s Bio-Energywebsite

Governor Schweitzer along with Senators Baucus and Tester, joined with Targeted Growth, Inc. (TGI), a renewable energy bioscience company, and Green Earth Fuels, a vertically integrated renewable biodiesel energy company, to announce the formation of a joint venture called Sustainable Oils, Inc. The new venture is capable of producing up to 100 million gallons of camelina-based biodiesel, launching the single largest U.S. contract for the unique biodiesel-specific feedstock. Nearly all of the initial camelina produced for this project is expected to be grown in Montana. In 2009 and 2010, Sustainable Oils supplied the US Air Force with 100,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel. In March 2010, Sustainable Oils moved into an expanded facility to meet their growing demand and increase their research capabilities.

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US Ranked 87 Behind Afghanistan & Cuba for Women in National Legislatures

Huma Abedin joins the ‘wives’ of wandering-eye politicians’ clubThe Washington Post

Charles Dharapak/ASSOCIATED PRESS - Huma Abedin, wife of now former Rep. Anthony Weiner, joins the likes of Hillary Clinton, Maria Shriver and Silda Spitzer as the latest to watch her husband go through a highly public scandal.

While less data exists on the fidelity of powerful women, we know that females don’t enter the political realm with the same goals as men. I talked to Siobhan “Sam” Bennett, president and CEO of the Women’s Campaign Fund and its affiliated program, The She Should Run Foundation, about these differences. Bennett explained, “Research shows that men run for office because they see it as a pathway to power, while women run because they want to help make change—in their communities, their cities, their states and the nation. This ego-driven, versus change-driven, difference predicts that men elected are far more likely to engage in behaviors destructive to them and to voters.”
Despite studies that show voters perceive women as more trustworthy and that elected women are more productive than men, the U.S. is ranked 87th in the world in the number of women serving in its national legislature, behind Cuba and Afghanistan.

Fathers, Daughters & GPS

Daughters and Dad’s ApprovalWSJ

Author Peggy Drexler (wife of master retailer Mickey Drexler, now head of J Crew) examines the role of modern day fathers in their daughters’ lives, reminding us that no matter how successful the woman, she almost always wants her father’s approval — even if he is a total louse.

Drexler introduces a term that resonates: GPS and it has nothing to do with learning to drive dad’s car — or taking it for a joy ride before a girl has acquired her drivers licence. Rather, Drexler defines GPS as ‘gender positioning system’.

‘Part of this need takes form early in life—when a father is a girl’s portal to the world of men… It’s how women begin to orient themselves in a confusing and (especially of late) fluid landscape of gender expectations.’

More reading and interview with Dr Drexler:Gabrielle Hamilton Wins Best Chef | Dr Peggy Drexler on Father’s & Daughters

How Divorce Lost Its Groove NYTimes

Supreme Court Limits Wal-Mart Sex Bias CaseNYTimes

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The Big TradeNY Magazine

Buddy actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon want to make a movie about two Yankees pitchers, Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich, 40 percent of the team’s starting rotation, who in 1973 held a press conference informing the world that they had traded wives, children and pets.

“Don’t make anything sordid out of this,” said the 31-year-old Peterson, a twenty-game winner in 1970 who was then living with Kekich’s wife, Susanne, in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The 27-year-old Kekich agreed. “Don’t say this was wife-swapping, because it wasn’t,” Kekich said. “We didn’t swap wives, we swapped lives.”