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...that produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other biofuel sources, the jatropha doesn't have to compete with food crops for arable land. Even in the worst of soils, it grows like weeds. Sound too good to be true? That's why brothers Paul and Mark Dalton chose to name their Florida jatropha company My Dream Fuel...
Native to the Caribbean, Jatropha curcas was taken to India in the 1600s by Portuguese sailors who used the seeds for long-burning lamp oil. When Paul Dalton, 54, a Washington child-advocate attorney, decided to invest $500,000 in an alternative-fuel venture, he followed the Portuguese trail to India and found prolific new jatropha varieties being cloned in the city of Mysore. The fuel emits negligible greenhouse gases, and the trees can capture four tons of carbon dioxide per acre (which might make growers eligible for carbon credits on the global market). Says Ron Pernick, co-founder...
...capital for a full day. My Dream Fuel donates jatropha trees to Caribbean countries in the hope that they won't have to choose between producing enough fuel and producing enough food. "We want to make money with jatropha, but we also want to make a difference," Paul Dalton says. If jatropha can do both, it's an idea that could grow like weeds...
Elsewhere, U.S.A. By Dalton Conley Pantheon; 221 pages...
Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms, and Economic AnxietyBy Dalton ConleyPantheon; 221 pages...