An analysis of jet fuel alternatives that could be viable in the next decade.
•Science as Dialogue: What My Garden and I Are Discussing in 2013 •Biofuels a big cause of famine •Food Price Inflation as Redistribution: Towards a New Analysis of Corporate Power in the World Food System •Over half the world's population could rely on food imports by …
• The Trouble with Biofuels: Costs and Consequences of Expanding Biofuel Use in the United Kingdom •Dance of the Honey Bee •The benefits of alternative farming methods •A Brief History of Our Deadly Addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer •Connecting the Dots: the Big …
Continuing a decade-long increase, global food prices rose 2.7 percent in 2012, reaching levels not seen since the 1960s and 1970s but still well below the price spike of 1974. Between 2000 and 2012, the World Bank global food price index increased 104.5 percent, at an average annual rate of 6.5 …
In 1917 Alexander Graham Bell, Canada's premier inventor, had a bold ethanol vision. He predicted, in the pages of the National Geographic no less, that alcohol-based fuels would power the future when petroleum ran out. Corn alcohol "makes a beautiful, clean and efficient fuel," …
A new census found this winter’s population of North American monarch butterflies in Mexico was at the lowest level ever measured. Insect ecologist Orley Taylor talks to Yale Environment 360 about how the planting of genetically modified crops and the resulting use of herbicides has …
However, the sobering conclusion for the rest us is this: Biofuels were one of our great hopes in resolving/mitigating the impending crisis in liquid fuel supply. If biofuels are indeed a dead end as Capt. Kiefer has demonstrated, then one of our most promising ‘solutions’ is gone.
The following is an update to a previous posting. If anything, the situation might be worse that I had concluded then, but the issue of phosphate rock reserves is more complex than I had deduced. So, this article is as written before, but with a few more numbers worked through, to …
•Fracking Our Food Supply •Biofuels and the right to food: Time for the US to get its head out of the sand •Farming the city •The Non-Controversy Surrounding Local Food •Restrict developing quality farmland: Farmers Union
Last week's energy news included a piece from the Associated Press with a headline reading: "U.S. poised to become world's top oil producer; may soon overtake Saudi Arabia." If the reporter had actually examined figures available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration website …
