Alternative Energy Daily News - May 4, 2007

• Silda Wall Spitzer, wife of New York's Democratic Governor Elliot Spitzer, wants to turn the governor's mansion built in 1875 into a modern model of energy efficiency.

• The U.S. Senate may vote this month on legislation that aims to drive down gasoline demand by boosting the fuel economy of cars and trucks and increasing the use of nonpetroleum fuels like ethanol.

• By early 2009, but perhaps in less than a year, the American business community will have reached a tipping point in sustainable practices, according to a study by Siemens and McGraw-Hill Construction.

• Now in the Bay Area: the anti-gas station.

• The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $200 million over five years (FY’07-’11) to support the development of small-scale cellulosic biorefineries in the United States.