Biofuels – June 10
Lawrence Laboratories scientist: Myths of biofuels
Thailand to enforce bio-diesel in 2008
Bumper corn crop fuels US energy dilemma
Biofuels
Corn is for eating… or drinking
Unlike subsidies to farmers for growing corn, which tends to bring the price of corn down, the more corn that subsidized ethanol plants use, the higher the price rises, and so inevitably, the price of meat, milk and eggs too. Somewhere along the way, the consumer may face a momentous decision: shall I eat or shall I drive? The best use of corn in my opinion is to make good bourbon. At least we might die happy if our civilization crashes like the corn-dependent Mayan culture did.
On the edge – June 7
Cyclone Gonu: TOD post-mortem
OPEC: Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge
The Iraqi war against labor
Thomas Friedman: Our green bubble
Renewables – June 6
Thomas Edison – wind pioneer
Two years of record growth in wind – just the beginning?
Wind power: some lessons from 2006
Mali: Jatropha oil lights up villages
Corn-based ethanol: Is this a solution?
Analysis of corn-based ethanol, with some surprising answers.
Biofuels – June 5
Biofuel gangs kill for green profits
Indonesia Won’t let oil palm growers cut forests
First food prices climb, now, beer?
Ethanol boom won’t threaten food supply [sic]: analysts
Guardian: Biofuels and food prices not funny for poor
Biofuels – June 2
Will milk become America’s new oil?
As pork prices soar, Chinese put brakes on corn for ethanol
Cargill chief warning on biofuels boom
Biofuels – May 30
Ancient plant has potential as biofuel (camelina)
Rapier: The mythical ethanol threat
South Africa: Biofuel making staple food more expensive
Mexico: Ethanol plan meets resistance
Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Food & agriculture – May 28
Building a strong local food system via the 100 mile diet challenge
Astyk: reduce energy consumption- eat seasonally
BC conference: Changing ecologies of food and agriculture
Germany: Biofuel boom jacks up price of beer
Biofuels – May 27
Uganda scraps plan to cut rainforest for palm oil
Brazil to improve working conditions for cane cutters in biofuel industry
Castro on problems of biofuels
EU will demand sustainable biofuel production
Toyota Launches Biofuel-compatible Vehicles in Brazil
Renewables – May 26
Cheaper solar power heads mainstream
Row over wind power rages in Norfolk
EU crafts biofuel rules with eye on environment
60 percent of oil and gas execs believe trend of declining reserves is irreversible
Results of a KPMG survey, which polled 553 financial executives from oil and gas companies in April 2007. “These executives are deeply concerned about declining oil reserves, a
situation they see as irreversible and worsening,” said Bill Kimble of KPMG LLP.