Food & agriculture – Aug 4
Forget the farm bill: For now, local politics is the way to effect ag-policy change
As imports of foreign produce increase, California farmers lose out
Ag professor urges ‘sustainable’ solution, not biofuels
Renewable Energy
Edwards, Obama, Richardson and Clinton on energy
Which of the major Democratic party candidates has the best energy platform? A comparison based on what I could find on their websites and some interviews.
Solar – Aug 3
Too much energy is wasted by converting it
A solar oven saves energy
Thin film’s time in the sun
Climate – Aug 2
Climate protest at Heathrow airport may face “the mother of all injunctions”
Brazil, alarmed, reconsiders policy on climate change
Warming of glaciers threatens millions in China
Biofuels – Aug 1
Book Review: Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
Ethanol sugarcane threatens Brazil’s wooded savanna
F William Engdahl: The great biofuel fraud
Rolling Stone: Ethanol scam
Biofuels – July 31
David Blume’s Alcohol Can Be A Gas book
LS9 promises ‘renewable petroleum’
Poison plant could help to cure the planet
The ethanol effect
Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
Biofuels – July 27
The unintended consequences of the ethanol quick fix
Struggles between Big Oil, ethanol industry
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Biofuels – July 26
Buy feed corn: They’re about to stop making it
One-tenth of Scotland’s farmland earmarked by power firm
Pa. biodiesel producers struggle to stay alive
Energy policy – July 26
IEA’s Mandill: Industry can substantially save energy and reduce CO2 emissions
Nigeria: rich in oil, dependent on firewood
Renewable energy projects will devour huge amounts of land, warns researcher
More peak oil – July 26
UK energy security
Canada TOD Round-Up
The world at $100 a barrel – peak oil?
Council on Foreign Relations: Reading oil’s tea leaves
Science: Even oil optimists expect energy demand to outstrip supply
Canada energy round-up
Renewables – July 21
A German city’s long focus on the sun
Solar ovens- even in foggy San Francisco
Photovoltaic for Australia
Arizona shouldn’t waste public money on impractical PV cells
