Headlines
- 07/28/10 - Exploring Genetically Engineered Algae as Fuel
- 07/19/10 - Ethanol Gets Skewered by Recent CBO Assessment
- 07/06/10 - Corn is the Biggest Culprit in Gulf Dead Zone
- 06/07/10 - Surging Food Costs Hit Poor Nations Hard; Biofuels Compound Problem
- 05/30/10 - Antibiotics Concerns Ooze into Ethanol Process
- 05/04/10 - Corn Industry Brazenly Turns Gulf Disaster Into Marketing Opportunity
- 04/23/10 - Scientists Show 'Growing' Fuel is Waste of Energy
- 01/23/10 - One Quarter of US Grain Crops Fed to Cars - Not People, New Figures Show
- 10/26/09 - Biomass & Biofuels are Not Really Green
- 09/13/09 - Sustainable Palm Oil? Not So Fast
- 09/09/09 - French Fries to Go
- 06/25/09 - Genetic Modification of Sugar Cane?
- 06/12/09 - Palm Oil, Biofuels, & Narco Death Squads--The Failure of Bush & Obama's Plan Colombia
- 05/29/09 - Big Oil Gets Behind Cellulosic Ethanol?
- 05/26/09 - What the Financial Collapse Can Teach Us About the Food System
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians to support:
- A law requiring American cars to get at least 50 miles to the gallon by 2020 and a moratorium on all new coal and nuclear plants.
- A U.S. energy sustainability program that would withdraw $40 billion in annual subsidies from fossil fuels and establish equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources.
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Resources
- Rainforest Action Network
Advocating for wide-ranging changes in environmental policy internationally since 1985. - Sustainable Bioenergy:
A Framework for
Decision Makers
Report, from UN-Energy (a United Nations interagency combine). Addresses the problematic nature of ethanol-based biofuels. - The False Promise
of Biofuels
Report from the International Forum on Globalization.
Infobits
"...the UN has just published a report suggesting that 98% of the natural rainforest in Indonesia will be degraded or gone by 2022. Just five years ago, the same agencies predicted that this wouldn't happen until 2032. But they reckoned without the planting of palm oil to turn into biodiesel for the European market. This is now the main cause of deforestation there and it is likely soon to become responsible for the extinction of the orangutan in the wild."
- George Monbiot
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