Cliff drives a Mercedes around the shacks on the Port Broughton foreshore in South Australia. He drives it slow even though it is in perfect condition. He took me for a spin and it felt like we were floating on air. What a ride! Cliff's Mercedes runs on veggie ... keep reading
Written by Kristy Arbon today, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Transport
Good News Obama's EPA and Interior Department face high expectations in reversing Bush's war on the environment. US government backs away from oil and gas drilling near Utah's national parks. The EU is drafting the ground rules to minimize the impact of biofuels on forests, specifying which ... keep reading
Written by Alina Beloussova last month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Politics, Water
The biggest take-away from day two of the summit is that much of what will happen in terms of global climate policy will happen at the regional level and through these kinds of regional and local agreements. President-elect Obama's message to the attendees yesterday committing to adopting California's ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Air Quality, Biofuels, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Green energy, Health, Industry, Logging, Politics, Pollution, Population, Transport, Water (1 comment)
Good News The news everyone's talking about: America elects the environmental candidate of choice. Not only that, but the green cause has also made some gains in the U.S. Congress. And California approves proposition 2, a victory for the more humane treatment of farm animals. Fungus is a ... keep reading
Written by Alina Beloussova last month, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Education, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Green energy, Organic, Politics
Agrofuel is the new buzzword, but this rose by any name is a disaster in the making and Latin American countries (pdf) are living proof. Biofuels are combustible fuels produced from plants. These plants can be either food crops (corn, soy, sugarcane, oil palm, etc.) or biomass (usually described as ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics
New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation has been working on technology to convert wild algae to next generation fuels and has recently produced the first samples of green-crude from a proprietary process that does not rely on genetically modified organisms. As we have covered previously on this site, algae based fuels ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in October, about Biofuels, Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil (1 comment)
Electric vehicles shuttled the party goers from the bottom of the hill, where the valet service contended with one Prius after another, to the still-under-construction home of Chris Paine, the film maker behind Who Killed the Electric Car. The attendees met pool-side where they were able to ogle the latest ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant in September, about Biofuels, Celebrities, Clean Technologies, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Events, Green energy, Transport (1 comment)
Scientists are now working with plant genomes to create trees that literally dissolve themselves into cellulose. The research, designed to reduce the high costs of converting wood into cellulose, focuses on several novel and exceedingly strange methods to turn trees into autodigesters that literally ferment their own mass into biofuel ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in September, about Biofuels, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification, Health (2 comments)
Editor's Note: This article comes to us from C. Fernando Márquez, Executive Director of the Colombian Society of Motorists, S. C. A. ...OR WHEN ECONOMIC INTERESTS HAVE PRECEDENCE OVER COMMON SENSE Last April-24-08 the event "BIOFUELS TO DEBATE" was carried out in the Colombian Congress organized by Colciencias ... keep reading
Written by C. Fernando Márquez in September, about Agriculture & Food, Biofuels, Industry, Politics, Transport
Next year Congress seems likely to enact a "cap and trade" system to limit carbon dioxide emissions, to curb global warming. But Congress is considering a system that includes a provision called "offsets," which would create loopholes and opportunities for scamming on a grand scale. By Peter Montague of Rachel ... keep reading
Written by Peter Montague in September, about Biofuels, Carbon Trading, Industry, Politics, Pollution
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