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Patung
Patung posted a blog entry
Food & Energy Prices, & Climate Change
Callum on the inter-relation between rising food and energy prices, and climate change.
 
Political Ecology
Political Ecology posted a blog entry
Discovery Of Plant Protein Holds Promise For Biofuel Production
Chloroplasts, which are specialized compartments in plant cells, convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars and...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
A biofuels polemic from Huffington Post
If you are interested in the environmental impact of biofuels in the US check this polemic on the Huffington Post. Makes some...
 
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg posted a blog entry
Different Algae for Different Strokes
One of the big advances we’ve seen in moving towards a renewable future is in the field of biofuels. And one of the...
2 days ago Green Options | Topics: Algae, Biofuels
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Couple sentenced in biodiesel fuel scam
A Karl and Helen Rehberg from Florida committed a biodiesel scam in Florida the 1990s and pocketed around $20m from investors,...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Enterprise-rent-a-car appoints Sayre as academic biofuel director
Enterprise-rent-a-car appoints Dr Richard Sayre as academic biofuel director at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St....
 
Minaya
Minaya posted a blog entry
Turning used cooking oil into biofuels
Via Processing Talk: Rising to the challenge of meeting the demand for new eco-friendly fuels, one Spanish company, Bionor, has...
 
Mickie
Mickie posted a blog entry
SIWI, FAO, IWMI : Waste, exploding water demands, weak govt policies pushing planet towards water crisis
World Water Week demands halt to food wastageEurActiv.com, 25 August 2008 - Scientists and experts from around the world have...
 
danilett
danilett posted a blog entry
Biofuel subsidies a ‘waste of money’
Biofuels is often a controversial green subject and think tank the Policy Exchange - a favourite of Prime Minister-in-waiting...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Biofuels subsidies at root of carbon dioxide problem
Subsidies for biofuels in the UK could be much better spent in environmental terms by helping the developing world cut back on...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008
Air New Zealand to try Jatropha based biofuel by end 2008 the firm is working with Rolls Royce which has been looking at...
4 days ago The Big Biofuels Blog | Topics: Biofuels, Air, Jatropha, New
 
Biofuelsimon
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The Root of the Matter (a report )
How switching money spent subsidising the biofuel industry in the UK could have a significant impact on the amount of carbon dioxide prodced from woodland clearance, peat burning etc in the developing world
 
mohd h
mohd h posted a blog entry
Biofuels, Hybrids or Herbivores
South Park parodied hybrid car owners creating clouds of ’smug’, but do they really have anything to be smug about?...
6 days ago HybridsTech | Topics: Biofuels, cell, Herbivores, hybrids
 
Craig
Craig posted a blog entry
No Diesels for Bentley
Bentleys and torque go hand-in-hand. Therefore, it makes sense that the German-owned British luxury marque to consider one of...
 
adpurple
adpurple posted a blog entry
City encourages more waste oil recycling
The City of Portsmouth’s Public Works Department is encouraging residents to make greater use of the waste cooking oil...
 
Whaleoil
Whaleoil posted a blog entry
Ban It!
NotPC posts about the Greens and their penchant for banning. Here is his list of things the Greens want to ban….it is...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
E.ON responds to "green" to ship trees post
I've just had an email from Emily at E.ON about the wood burning power plant it wants to build near Bristol, UK. It set some...
 
PlanMyGreen
PlanMyGreen posted a blog entry
Pond scum power: Algae a way to create fuel
 Found on DesMoinesRegister.comThe green slime or pond scum that comes from algae could be valuable after all. Renewable...
 
danilett
danilett posted a blog entry
Ohio ‘dark grey powder’ the future of hydrogen cars?
It seems that the US Department of Energy (DoE) can’t get enough of giving away cash to clean tech projects. Stories...
9 days ago Greenbang | Topics: Innovation, biofuels, catalyst, ethanol
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
19% of UK biofuel meets ethical standards -- RFA
The UK Renewable Fuel Agency says that 19% of biofuel used in the UK under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation conformed to...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste
Reclaim Resources has a process to generate biofuel from domestic waste. The process looks interesting and I've asked them...
 
MaddMedic
MaddMedic posted a blog entry
Tuesday Tidbits!!
Thanks you greenfreaks, tree huggers and bunny pumpers!! Your efforts are raising the cost of food and causing more grief for...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Biofuel Cities Europe has its own forums now
Biofuel-cities Europe has its own forums now. Naturally they are biased towards the European side of the Atlantic, but if their...
 
Biofuelsimon
Biofuelsimon posted a blog entry
Clinton backs push to cellulosic ethanol
Bill Cliniton, sometime US president, has been talking at the National Clean Energy Summit, in Las Vegas, last night. According...
 
Xconomy
Xconomy posted a blog entry
Latest Imperium Woes Could Spell Trouble for the Biodiesel Market
It’s been a rough year for Imperium Renewables, the Seattle-based refiner of biodiesel fuel. Back in December, CEO...
 
Political Ecology
Political Ecology posted a blog entry
Is oil palm agriculture really destroying tropical biodiversity?
Oil palm is one of the world’s most rapidly expanding equatorial crops. The two largest oil palm-producing...
 
inghamb87
inghamb87 posted a blog entry
11 Green Technologies That Vanished Like a Thief in The Night
Remember how Nokia's next hipster phone would be 100 per cent recycled? How EasyJet promised it had a carbon-cutting 'Eco...
 
danilett
danilett posted a blog entry
BP finds new $90m biofuels friend
For a company whose name is dangerously close to the proper word for your gooch, (look it up on urban dictionary if you’re...
22 days ago Greenbang | Topics: Energy and..., biofuels, BP, cellulosic
 
OttawaKent Mike
OttawaKent Mike posted a blog entry
Bio-fuels and Classic Cars (Hagerty Report)
I recently received this report from a car enthusiast, Ellen Lee, who wrote to tell me how great Hagerty is. No need to tell me...
 
Jay Dugger
Jay Dugger shared an item
Technology News roundup: Vasimr rocket, $12 PC, $10 microscope, better biomass
This technology news roundup has imminent testing of the Vasimr plasma rocket in space, twelve dollar personal computers, ten dollar dime sized microscopes and a plant that is 250% better than corn for biofuels and twice as productive as switchgrass....
 
<em>oddamerica</em>
oddamerica posted a blog entry
Barack Obama Launches New Ad On Energy
Obama made a big speech in Lansing, Michigan, on our energy dependence and need to move away from foreign oil.Without a...
 
Jeanne E
Jeanne E posted a blog entry
36 days ago GOING GREEN | Topics: bio fuels, fuel, grain, food prices
 
femikey
femikey posted a blog entry
World Biofuels Industry Open Letter to OPEC
Many countries are affected with oil and energy prices. Even in the Philippines, the increasing of oil, gas and energy prices...
 
F Pizarro
F Pizarro posted a blog entry
Update on a cool digital experiment
I was pleased to see that a digital journalism experiment I wrote about here  is now moving from concept to execution.It’s...
 
Keith R
Keith R posted a blog entry
Colombian Palm Oil Industry Opts for Path to Certified Sustainable
Last week the group representing Colombia's palm oil business, the National Federation of Palm Oil Growers (Federación...
 
patrick_ross45
patrick_ross45 posted a blog entry
These Are the Days That We Drive
Who says there's nothing to watch on PBS?Spotted last night on PBS, As the Wrench Turns stars Car Talk's Tom and Ray Tappet...
 
Green Blog
Green Blog posted a blog entry
Solar energy videos from Ecolive.tv
Here are some of the best Green videos of the week, collected by the Ecolive.TV community.What is the Solar Energy?This...