Biodiesel

Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes

Josh Tickell | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Orangutan, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Sugarcane, Logging, Conservation, Malaysia, Ethanol, Deforestation, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News
Josh Tickell

The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.

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Energy Crisis Or Transportation Crisis?

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy Crisis, Transportation Crisis, Energy Efficiency, Biofuels, Fuel Efficiency, Global Warming, Biodiesel, Transportation, Green News

Our favorite graph, which demonstrates that almost all of our petroleum is used for transportation. Benjamin J. Turon writes an op-ed in the Schene...

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Who Ate My Tortillas? -- The Truth About Food vs. Fuel

Josh Tickell | Posted 07.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Gasoline, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Oil, Ethanol, Corn-Based Ethanol, Biodiesel, Global Warming, Green News
Josh Tickell

Corn may be environmentally detrimental, but it is difficult to pin the systemic problems in our international markets solely on biofuels.

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Biofuel Feedstocks Latest Candidate: Kudzu

Treehugger | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Biodiesel, Biotech, Ethanol, Biofuel, Kudzu, Biomass, Green News

yes, all of those vines are kudzu. photo via flickr Our colleagues over at Discovery News have brought attention to a new report that an invasive ...

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What Is The Best Biofuel?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: New Energy Company, Congressional Legislation, Ethanol, Biofuels, Biomethanol, Biodiesel, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Ethanol and biodiesel are slowly sinking as biofuel options, but the Farm Lobby will ensure that, if we decide to form a methanol producing enterprise, we will have a few years to refine the effort.

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Ethanol Vs. Methanol

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Marine Algae, Methanol, Ethanol, Sustainable Transportation Fuel, Biofuels, Biodiesel, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Ethanol and biodiesel are dead, long live methanol! Methanol is the simplest alcohol, with one carbon atom; ethanol has two. Thus, given biomass, it should be cheaper to produce methanol than ethanol. Surely enough, in a comprehensive assessment Stone & Webster performed for the U.S. Department of Energy two decades ago, with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute as an associate, this fact was confirmed.

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Sean Penn Leads Biodiesel Trek Across America

Reuters | Posted 04.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Coachella, Sean Penn, Biodiesel, Entertainment News

Sean Penn is fighting the war in Iraq, poverty, homelessness and saving the environment, all from a bus. The actor, who baffled many when his name sh...

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GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Environmentalism, Environmental, Ethanol, Biofuel, Biodiesel, Gashole, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Leaders are forever promising a vigorous campaign of alternative fuel initiatives. GasHole recaps a thirty-year history of alternative fuel promises made by U.S. presidents.

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Earth Day Resolution: No Biofuel from Food Crops

Chris McGowan | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Soros, Food Riots, Amazon Deforestation, Biofuels, Amazon Rain Forest, Biofuel, Earth Day, Steven Bing, Ethanol, Food Prices, Cerrado, Ron Burkle, Global Warming, Steve Case, Earth Day 2008, Biodiesel, Politics News
Chris McGowan

Biofuel has a positive role to play, but it will come from its production from agricultural and food waste or from renewable native grasses in areas that are not environmentally sensitive.

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