Here is a relevant & timely news item from ABC. Note it mentions grass
pellets & Middlebury College in the second paragrpah.

[Students Use Civil Rights Tactics to Combat Global Warming]
College students Lead the Way in Global Warming Movement

By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Jan. 19, 2007

At Middlebury College in eco-friendly Vermont,
forward-thinking students convinced an austere board of trustees that
one of the biggest threats to the college — and to the world — is
global warming.

Armed with research and a portfolio of options, the students were a
powerful voice in the college’s decision to invest $11 million in a
biomass plant — one that is fueled by wood chips, grass pellets and a
self-sustaining willow forest.

By 2012, the college will be “carbon neutral” — producing all of its
own clean energy locally. Long known for its progressive outlook,
Middlebury is now at the forefront of the student “climate change”
movement.