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The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem

Chris McGowan | Posted 12.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon Deforestation, Brazil, Lula, Brazilian Environment, Carlos Minc, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Cerrado, Amazon Basin, Deforestation, Tropical Dry Forest, Savanna, Biofuel, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspot, Green News

The Cerrado savanna has already lost 48% of its original vegetation and is shrinking faster than the Amazon rain forest. It could disappear almost entirely within a few decades.

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Airlines Seek To Boost Market For Biofuels

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 12.16.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Biofuels, Rentech, Biofuel, Los Angeles News

(Text From AP) WASHINGTON — Fifteen airlines and air cargo carriers said Tuesday they've signed memorandums of understandings that could lead to...

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Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Biofuel, Fossil Fuels, Green Technology, Airplanes, Airports, Iata, Pollution, Airlines, International Air Transport Association, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...

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Fuel Uses Education and Inspiration to Make Impassioned Case for Green Energy

Josh Garrett | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Refining, Sundance Film Festival, Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Richard Branson, Movie, Neil Young, Film, Pollution, Crude Oil, Algae Biofuel, Fuel, Biomass, Henry Ford, Contamination, Oil, Documentary, Josh Tickell, Algae, Willie Nelson, Green News

Fuel does not chastise Americans for using petroleum products, but instead shows that a post-oil nation is well within our grasp -- all we need to do is extend our hands.

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News Flash - All Fuels Have Indirect Effects

Bob Dinneen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Solar, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Wind, Oil, Petroelum, Ethanol, Coal, Natural Gas, Green News

No credible research can conclude that ethanol production in the U.S. is the driving force behind deforestation and other land use changes in other sovereign nations.

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New Company Turns Algae-Based Fish Oil Into Biofuel

Fast Company | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fish Oil, Algae, Green Energy, Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Algae Biofuel, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News

We've seen a spate of companies getting involved in algae fuel in recent months, and all of them plan to use some variation on bioreactors and algae f...

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Exxon To Invest Millions To Make Fuel From Algae

nytimes.com | JAD MOUAWAD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Gas, Biofuels, Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Green, Oil, Environment, Algae, Exxon, Green Energy, Algae Biofuel, Green News

Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae -- organisms in water that range from pond s...

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Biofuels Are A Long-Term Renewable Solution

politico.com | SEN. JOHN THUNE | | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Gas, Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Climate Change, Oil, Renewable Energy, Imported Oil, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News

As Congress, the administration and the private sector look for ways to reduce our consumption of imported oil, we should not overlook the most readil...

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DuPont, BP Receive Go Ahead On Biofuel Venture

The News Journal | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Bp, Biofuels, Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Renewable Energy, Green, Renewables, British Petroleum, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Energy, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News

DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...

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Alaska Airlines Joins Boeing's Biofuel Group

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle): | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Green, Renewable Energy, Renewables, Boing, Green Energy, Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Airline Fuel, Green News

Alaska Airlines has joined Boeing Co.'s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, which the aerospace giant formed to accelerate the commercialization of...

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U.S. Pulp-Maker Creates New Biofuel

Reuters | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

But along with its usual business of pulp-making, the century-old mill is doing something unprecedented: Developing technology to produce bio-butanol,...

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Man Modifies Pickup Truck To Run On Wood And Waste

KPTV Portland | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, Gas, Wood, Vehicles, Biofuel, Pickup, Cars, Mr. Fusion, Green Living, Garbage, Pickup Truck, Environment, Waste, Back to the Future, Green Energy, Green News

From the first time he saw Emmett "Doc" Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the "Back to the Future" movies, Dave Nichols has always w...

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Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste Into Biofuel

Ethiopian News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Cellulose-loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover....

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Unknown Water Demands Of Biofuel Feedstocks

nytimes.com | KATIE HOWELL of Greenwire | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Extensive studies are needed to understand the water needs of biofuel production from cellulosic feedstocks or other next-generation sources, federal ...

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From Rice Straw To Diesel Fuel

Sacramento Bee | Jim Downing | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy Resources, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Sacramento, Renewable Resources Biofuels, Green Energy, Biofuels Energy, Bio Fuels, Rice Straw, Biomass, Renewable Energy Source, Bio Fuel, Evolving Energy Tech, Wood Waste, Diesel Fuel, Renewable Biofuels, Renewable Energy Biofuel, Biofuel Impact, Green News

A local nonprofit that has developed a method for turning rice straw and wood waste into diesel fuel has attracted some big business backers....

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Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Biomass, Biofuels, Biofuel, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Ethanol, Deforestation, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

If we can repeal the last-minute biofuels amendments to ACES, we can instill a belief that biofuels done right can be a real, American-grown, global warming solution.

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Waste Into Fuel: The Coolest Green Fuels

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Garbage Fuel, Biofuel, Waste, Beer Fuel, Chocolate Fuel, Waste Into Fuel, Green Technology, Green News

We have an oil dependency. We create too much waste. Wouldn't it be swell if we could kill two birds with one stone here? Here are some of the cooles...

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Time's Grunwald Grinds an Axe Against Biofuels

Bob Dinneen | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Biofuels, Biofuel, Epa, Alternative Fuels, Mandy Grunwald, Green, Environment, Green Energy, Green News

Far from being "rigged" in favor of biofuels, EPA's examination was rigged against biofuels and ignored petroleum products.

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Rolling Stone's Environmental Rock Stars

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Walmart, Al Gore, Philippe Starck, Environmentalists, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Biofuel, Economy, Agriculture, Green, Neil Young, Henry Waxman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Van Jones, Coal, Barack Obama, Bruce Nilles, Steven Chu, Solar Energy, Michael Pollan, Carol Browner, Climate Change, Electric Cars, Rolling Stone, Environment, Sierra Club, Bonnarroo, Green Living, Green News

It may not be the cover of Rolling Stone, but the Sierra Club's own Bruce Nilles is nonetheless a rock star for being No. 74 on the iconic rock magazine's "RS 100: Agents of Change" list.

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How We are Losing the Battle for Our Independent Fuel, Food and Jobs

David Blume | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Valero, Ethanol, Non-Exportable Jobs, Verasun, Alcohol Fuel, Biofuel, Business News

Weeks ago I predicted that Big Oil would take advantage of the chaos of the changing administration to crush and buy up alcohol plants.

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New Report: We're Heading for "Water Bankruptcy"

Tara Lohan | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

It takes lots energy to move, use and treat water. And it takes lots of water to cool power plants. With that thinking, things like desalination and ethanol make less and less sense.

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Staying in the Lead on Biofuel Development -- Part 2

Bob Dinneen | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Ethanol, Cellulosic Fuel, Biofuels, Biofuel, Brazil, Fuel Efficiency, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, Science, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Sugar, Cellulosic Ethanol, Corn-Based Ethanol, Alternative Fuels, Environment, Green News

Producing ethanol from cellulose can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 86% compared to gasoline according to the US Department of Energy, and ethanol can be produced in almost every part of the country.

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A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Green Living, Green Energy, Inauguration, Green Ec, Bill of Rights, Biofuels, Marijuana, Biofuel, Obama Inauguration, Universal Healthcare, Renewable Energy, US Military Spending, Free Education, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama, Muclear Weapons, Energy Efficiency, Corporations, National Health Reform, Military Spending, Universal Health Care, Education Reform, Atomic Bomb, Healthcare, Politics News

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan must end. The healing -- moral, spiritual, economic, and in terms of violence -- can only begin when the US leaves these battlefields.

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11 States Move to Develop a Low-Carbon Fuel Standard

Nathanael Greene | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Biofuel, Greenhouse Gases, Green, Low-Carbon Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, National Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Sustainability, Green News

A "low carbon fuel standard" (LCFS) is a market-based, technologically neutral policy to address the carbon content of fuels. 11 states have banded together to start developing this.

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Shipping Ethanol on Gasoline pipelines: They Said it Couldn't Be Done

Bob Dinneen | Posted 01.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, Gasoline, Ethanol, Biofuel, Pipeline, Ethanol Transportation, Alternative Energy, Green News

To all those naysayers who said it couldn't be done, Kinder Morgan decided it could and is now the first company shipping ethanol by pipeline in the United States.

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