Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The first meeting of the International Agrichar Initiative convened about 100 scientists, policymakers, farmers and investors with the goal of birthing an entire new industry to produce a biofuel that goes beyond carbon neutral and is actually carbon negative. The industry could provide a “wedge” of carbon reduction amounting to a minimum of ten percent of world emissions and possibly much more.
MIT: The case for burying charcoal
Reduce corn stover for ethanol to preserve soil quality?
Strife over biofuel plantations in Uganda
UC, faculty reach deal on biofuels institute
Ethanol policy divides Latin America
Biofuels and the war on oil
Chavez backpedals on ethanol; car buff says ethanol is insanity
Ethanol may cause [slightly] more smog, deaths
Competition between food & fuel, expert warns
U.S. needs to perfect cellulosic ethanol – can it?
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?
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The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
Brazil’s da Silva: Our biofuels partnership
UK slams US biofuel subsidies
Huge jump in corn planting expected
Ethanol fuels jumps in Nebraska agricultural land values
Economist: Biofuel may raise food prices
Farmers: future is not now for biomass ethanol
Energy companies rethink palm oil
Five years to save the orang utan
Monbiot: To save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels
NPR: Biofuel threatening food supplies?
Energy solution is growing on trees in Sweden & N. Europe
Ethanol wrong biofuel option say US experts
Bush hails biofuels pact in Brazil
Brazil’s ethanol slaves
US looks to Brazil to fuel energy revolution
Cuba-Venezuela: Making biofuels without wasting food
Tortillas spark inflation, drive down Mexico’s peso
UK Independent: The big green fuel lie
Brazil accused of growing biofuel under conditions like slave labor
Gasification may be key to U.S. ethanol
A moral solution to our energy problem
‘We’ve got to have more corn,’ expert says
