Biofuels – Sept 24
Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?
Farming the World’s Energy
Researchers Caution on Potential of Energy Crops as Invasive Species
Biofuels
Transport – Sept 19
A train ticket to America, please
Amtrak fares up; ridership adapts
Air Force tries new jet fuel
Renewables – Sept 19
Golden Gate tides – a potential energy source
Ramblers demand end to spread of wind farms
Cold fusion is alive and well
Tanzania turns to cassava for energy
Australian farmer plans diesel tree biofuel
Canola: from seed to fuel
Biofuels – Sept 17
From wheat to corn
Could sugar cane save the planet?
Addressing Proposition 87 criticisms (California)
Ethanol – Sept 16
South Africas ethanol landscape
Extracting grain of truth on ethanol
Consumer Reports: The ethanol myth
India backs down on blending
Honda claims cellulose breakthrough
Agriculture (food & fuel)-Sept 10
Our big fat world
Redesigning crops to harvest fuel
Kew boss: the dangers of biofuels
Can’t see the Future for the Trees
Biofuels contribute to some of the very problems they seek to address. The search for a sustainable energy source has uncovered some surprising options.
Biofuels – Aug 31
NYT: Fill up on corn if you can
NASA joins Brazilian biofuel effort
Rapier: Energy balance of ethanol versus gas
Renewables – Aug 30
The new energy companies
Giant turbines bring winds of change
to W. Texas
Alternative energy without being too green
Engineers race to steal nature’s secrets
Food & agriculture – Aug 25
– Lappé: a right to food?
– Biofuels may strain U.N. goal to end hunger
– I was a student dumpster-diver
– The shocking truth about bread
Biofuels – Aug 24
– Ethanol isn’t a good answer for replacing oil
– Home-grown crops accelerate drive towards biofuels (sugar beets in UK)
– Does biofuel make sense?
The Real Green Revolution
A friend once suggested to me that the three worst things we could be doing for the environment are, in order of destructiveness, 1) drive cars, 2) eat meat, and 3) eat vegetables. I’d consider listing the car third.