Food & agriculture – Apr 17
Preparing for a world without honeybees
GAO: U.S. food aid practices are wasteful
Astyk:
Food security and relocalization
WSJ:
Ethanol helps lift food costs
Renewable Energy
Renewables – Apr 16
Earth, Wind & Fire
Solar energy conversion
Renewables branded a ‘crime’
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America
Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
(Detailed analysis)
U.S. energy policy – Apr 12
Rep. Jay Inslee, clean-energy champion
Gingrich goes green in Kerry climate debate
EPA: full speed ahead with ethanol
Calif governor likes LNG despite panel vote
Schwarzenegger exports his brand of ‘green’
Renewables – Apr 12
Thermal depolymerization: the next big thing
US releases National Renewable Fuel Standard
Sustainable energy has powerful future
Tom Whipple: Decentralized Power
Geodynamics says it has ‘hottest rocks on earth’
Food & agriculture – Apr 9
Britain’s green revolution on the home front
Edible City: Part 2
The fruited plain: corn boom-and-bust
Biofuels – Apr 7
The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
Wearing my hair shirt
With all the attention on the great challenges and sacrifices ahead, I feel it incumbent to serve as an ambassador for the American low-energy lifestyle. It’s really not so bad, folks.
Australia already on the ‘downside’ of Peak Oil
Australia has already peaked as an oil producer, professor John Mathews said today, and Australian companies are missing out on important business opportunities in renewable energies and biofuels.
Palm biodiesel – Apr 4
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Biofuels – Apr 4
Foreign Affairs: Biofuels could starve the poor
Castro: US to starve world
Monsanto 2Q profit boosted by corn sales
Fertilizer shortage this spring due to ethanol
What are our alternatives, if fossil fuels are a problem?
Answers questions like “I love my SUV. Why can’t we continue to use oil and gas as in the past?” and “Won’t ethanol cover our fossil fuel shortfall?”. Good educational material.
