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5 Years of Work Pays-Off Mainlining Sustainability into the Biodiesel Industry.

In a dramatic moment at this year's Sustainable Biodiesel Summit,
(SBS) the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) CEO Joe Jobe and Board Chair
Ed Hegland announced the establishment of a "Sustainability Task
Force" to address and incorporate sustainable practices within the
biodiesel industry. SBS co-organizer, Emily Bockian Landsburg, of
Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel was chosen to lead these efforts within the
NBB.

Recent headlines have assailed biofuels for a lack of sustainability,
creating more social and environmental problems than solving them.
However, for the last 5 years the Summit, which draws biodiesel
professionals, policy-makers, and concerned consumers, has focused on
raising awareness of sustainability issues as they pertain to the
industry. Solutions-driven, the Summit is a forum for developing and
exchanging best practices to ensure that biodiesel has a positive
global impact on greenhouse gas reductions, air quality, energy
efficiency, biodiversity, environmental justice, and shared economic
development.

"It's critical that the NBB is tackling this issue head-on; no one
can afford to wait," said Landsburg. "Biodiesel offers a tremendous
number of environmental advantages, and of course there are ways to
improve as well. In this day and age, we all need to be evaluating our
businesses through the lens of sustainability."

This year the SBS delved into on-going industry efforts to create
principles and potential grading systems that define sustainable
biodiesel practices, specifically highlighting the work of the
Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), and the Sustainable
Biodiesel Alliance (SBA). "It is a tribute to the success of the SBS
and the Alliance, that the NBB has recognized the importance of
sustainability for the well-being of the industry and the future of
the planet," offered Kelly King, co-founder of the SBA.

"It is so gratifying, on a business and personal level, to see the
fruits of several years' evolution in the relationship between the
Sustainable Biodiesel Summit and the National Biodiesel Board," said
Kumar Plocher, a long time grassroots biodiesel activist, and
president of Yokayo Biofuels.

"Many people in the industry became involved with biodiesel not for
its own sake, but to realize these greater environmental and social
goals. Others who are involved for economic development reasons
understand that the real reason consumers choose this product is its
environmental and social qualities," explained Rachel Burton, a
volunteer on the Summit Organizing Committee and co-owner of a million
gallon per year production plant, Piedmont Biofuels "Either way,
achieving these environmental and social goals is the key to industry
wide economic viability."

Not much is known about the taskforce yet, other than that it will comprise 9 members. As an NBB member and sustainability advocate, I'm hoping to be one of them. We're all very excited for Emily- she's a stud!