Biofuels – Sept 28
Corn farms prosper, but subsidies still flow
Big potential and challenges for biofuels in Africa
Jatropha: fuel for thought?
Boeing 747 to fly on bio-fuel
Biofuels
Coal to Oil: Same system, nothing new
Starting now, the Chinese government will support going into CTL projects full throttle, country-wide. It must do so to reduce oil import dependency and give itself a source of fuel oil or feedstock for products we manufacture everyday.
Biofuels – Sept 20
NY Times: The high costs of ethanol
The myths of biofuels (new video)
OECD report: the high costs of biofuels
Swiss report on biofuels
Engdahl and peak oil
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
Food & agriculture – Sept 17
Can’t we all just … be vegans?
Return of GM in UK: climate concerns may reduce backlash
Fuel shortages may hurt corn harvesting
Make or break time for Australian harvest
Biofuels – Sept 16
Toxic jatropha not magic biofuel crop
The biofuel backlash
Farmers tout alfalfa as fuel
Biofuels – Sept 11
OECD warns against biofuels subsidies
Mali’s farmers discover a weed’s potential power
Cultivating a crop of hope (switchgrass)
Brazil: ethanol divides agribusiness
Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Solutions & sustainability – Sept 6
Place matters (the joy of walkability)
Transition Town Maidenhead in the news
To teens in the first decade of the 21st century
Restoring native landscapes – from a dump to a park (+ jatropha)
Biofuels – Sept 6
Orangutans squeezed by biofuel boom
Are switchgrass’ days numbered?
Inside scoop from a biodiesel pioneer
Ethanol from poplar trees – how much land would it take to fuel our cars?
Biodiesel demand grows across continents
Transport – Aug 31
Greening air travel
Boeing looks at algae for jet fuel
Back to the future with new flying car
Stuck in guzzlers on road to nowhere (Australia view of U.S)
Food & agriculture – Aug 31
Milk is the new oil
Biofuels and small farmers
Food demand and climate straining soils
‘Get Local’ campaign aims at its neighbours
Australia:
Goodman warns of a rise in food prices
