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Thomas Friedman's Green Pie in the Sky

Jeff Biggers | Posted May 12, 2008 | Media

Read More: Big Coal, Clean Coal, Coal, Energy, Ethanol, Green, Students, Sustainability, Thomas Friedman

Instead of a pie in the face, which Thomas L. Friedman ducked at Brown University a couple of weeks ago, the student pranksters should have tossed a few tough questions to the bestselling author about his fading green bona fides.

For starters, take his ill-informed understanding of coal. Using his...

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Greening Hollywood: Bioneers Host Ed Begley, Jr.

Paige Donner | Posted May 2, 2008 | Living

Ed Begley, Jr., resident Rockstar of the Hollywood Green Movement, spoke at last Tuesday's Venice Beach Bioneers ("Revolution from the Heart of Nature" www.bioneers.org) meeting held at the Electric Lodge, presented by Sara Nichols and Barbara Bosson.

Ed is fresh from launching his new book, Living Like Ed: A...

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Paper, Plastic, Stainless Steel, or Corn?

Lisa Selin Davis | Posted April 30, 2008 | Living

Read More: Boulder Colorado, Corn, Environment, Environmentalism, Ethanol, Going Green, Green, Green Living, Green Travel, House, Travel

With all the hubbub erupting over plastic bottles, I decided to go the metal water bottle route a couple of months ago, investing in a handsome-looking cylinder from the sporting goods shop something Swiss (if made there, then less eco-friendly by way of the shipping to get it here...

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Ethanol Production Forging Costly Link Between Food And Oil

Huffington Post | April 30, 2008 10:43 AM

Read More: Biofuels, Ethanol, Global Food Crisis

Ethanol was once touted (and still is by some) as an effective way to slow global climate change, but that effectiveness is increasingly being questioned as the link between ethanol production and rising food and oil prices becomes clearer (from...

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GasHole: Dirty Oil and the Biofuel Myth

Allison Kilkenny | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Biodiesel, Biofuel, Environment, Environmental, Environmentalism, Ethanol, Gashole

This week marked the world premiere of GasHole, a new documentary film (narrated by Peter Gallagher) about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels.

Biofuel gossip has been everywhere in the news lately. Bolivian President, Evo Morales, condemned...

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Earth Day Resolution: No Biofuel from Food Crops

Chris McGowan | Posted April 22, 2008 | Politics

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

This year, we have seen soaring food prices and world food riots. Global warming and increased demand are boosting the cost of our daily bread, as is biofuel production. Once again, President Bush has come down on the wrong side of an environmental issue: his misguided subsidizing of American ethanol...

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Robert Zoellick's Slightly Tardy Clarion Calls

Sunil Chacko | Posted April 21, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Accountability, Anti-Corruption, Bush Administration, Cgiar, Condi Rice, Corn, Ethanol, Food Price Rise, Leahy, Lugar, Mismanagement, Rice, Robert Zoellick, Senators Bayh, Transparency, Wheat, World Bank

The Bush Administration's former deputy to Condi Rice, Robert Zoellick, who currently runs the World Bank, has been making some frantic calls. It is just that they are a trifle late.

First, on the price rise of food grains, Zoellick spoke about the risk of social unrest in April...

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Poor Countries Blame Western Biofuels For High Food Prices

| April 15, 2008 07:28 AM

Read More: Biofuels, Ethanol, Food Prices, Food Riots, Global Markets, Higher Food Prices, Rise In Food Prices

Western countries are feeling political and moral heat from poor countries over their use of biofuels. The New York Times reports: The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high...

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Food Riots Skyrocket, World Leaders Have No Solutions

Wall Street Journal | BOB DAVIS, DOUGLAS BELKIN | April 14, 2008 08:26 AM

Finance ministers gathered this weekend to grapple with the global financial crisis also struggled with a problem that has plagued the world periodically since before the time of the Pharaohs: food shortages. Surging commodity prices have pushed up global food...

Food or Fuel? We Americans Aren't Making Friends

Harry Fuller | Posted April 7, 2008 | Business

Read More: Biofuel, Corn, Energy Prices, Ethanol, Greed, Petroleum, Population Control, Population Growth, Technology

You think invading two Muslim countries has made the U.S. a tad unpopular?

Well, be prepared, because America's about to become a much more hated place than ever. And it won't take a single bombing, no napalm, nor even a division of Marines. All we gotta do is keep...

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Is Vinegar The Secret Ingredient For Biofuels?

CNET News | Michael Kanellos | March 12, 2008 08:19 AM

Read More: Alcohol, Bio-Fuels, Biofuel Start-Up, Biofuels, Biological Fermentation, Cellulose, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Fermentation, Hemisellulose, Lignin, Silicon Valley, Thermochemical Engineering, ZeaChem

To make ethanol, you want to make vinegar first, according to ZeaChem. The biofuel start-up, which has moved from Colorado to Silicon Valley, says it has come up with a method of making cellulosic ethanol that results in close to...

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The Energy Crisis: Is It Solvable?

Hunt Ramsbottom | Posted January 16, 2008 | Business

Read More: Cellulosic Ethanol, Corn, Corn Ethanol, Energy Crisis, Ethanol, Foreign Oil, Oil, Oil Prices

I recently spoke at a business school on the east coast and the title of my discussion was "The Energy Crisis: Is It Solvable?" I want to share some thoughts from my discussion with these very bright and engaged students.

I give many talks on energy. I speak to Wall...

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Corn Ethanol Producers Could See More Profits

Miranda Marquit | Posted January 15, 2008 | Business

Read More: Corn Ethanol, Ethanol

Will rising corn prices help corn ethanol producers?

Corn ethanol producers could see increased profits this year. Thanks to greater government subsidies for ethanol producers, and a 2007 energy bill requirement that increases the amount of cars that run on ethanol, demand is rising for corn ethanol. Indeed,...

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Newt Gingrich and Republican Fears Over Global Warming

Rep. Jay Inslee | Posted January 7, 2008 | Politics

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Gingrich Global Warming, Global Warming, Newt Gingrich, Renewable Energy, Republicans Global Warming

Newt Gingrich may have finally gotten it partly right, but on the biggest issue of our time he is totally wrong -- again. His partially right position is in encouraging his fellow Republicans to embrace the effort against global warming, a noble quest indeed. We should be appreciative of any...

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In 2008: A Few Questions on Energy For The Candidate

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted December 31, 2007 | Business

In the last seven years this administration has done little to confront the looming danger that our consumption of fossil fuels presents to the nation's environment, economy and national security. Perhaps their singular contribution has been to idly sit by and watch the price of oil escalate by over 400%...

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Energy In America: Carruption And Obscene Cornography

Harry Fuller | Posted December 20, 2007 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Carruption, Cornography, Ethanol, Green Business, Toyota

It's a clear double victory for the White House and its oil/auto allies. Perhaps their biggest win since U.S. soldiers occupied the Iraqi oil fields.

In the morning the President signs a new energy law giving the auto industry another twelve years to catch up with China. Then in the...

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Iowa Farmers Stalk Candidates

Dien Judge | Posted November 20, 2007 | Off The Bus

Read More: 2008 Election, Agriculture Lobby, Agriculture Loby In Iowa, Ethanol, Iowa Caucus Campaigning, Iowa Caucuses, Offthebus

The following piece is published on Iowa Independent as well as OffTheBus.

Agricultural issues have largely gone under the radar throughout most of the caucus campaign season, despite the fact that Iowa is ground zero in the race for the presidency.

Federal farm and food policies have...

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Getting Biofuels to the Pump

Judy Dugan | Posted October 9, 2007 | Business

Read More: Big Oil, Biofuel, Bp, Cellulosic Ethanol, e85, Ethanol, Texaco

Chevron, BP, Exxon and friends talk a big game on renewable fuels, but it's like Silicon Valley vaporware: all buzz, nothing in production. That's the other half of the story on the sudden U.S. ethanol glut.

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times...

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The NY Times, The Oil Patch's Faithful Cheerleader, Trashes Ethanol

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted September 24, 2007 | Business

Read More: Ethanol, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Hugo Chavez, National Resources Defense Council, New York Times, Opec, Tom Daschle

Perhaps it was inevitable -- the New York Times with its 'rose tinted glasses' reporting on the world oil industry, standing shoulder to shoulder together with Hugo Chavez (please see post "Hugo Chavez Flirts With Hypocrisy and Ethanol" 04.23.07) and his well rehearsed sense of victimization, bashing "ethanol", happy...

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Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon

Chris McGowan | Posted September 14, 2007 | Politics

Read More: Amazon Deforestation, Amazonia, Amory Lovins, Biodiversity, Biofuel, Brazil, Brenco, Cerrado, Ethanol, George Soros, Hotspot, Palm Oil, Steve Case, Sugar Cane

These days, when you fill up your car with a gasoline-and-ethanol blend, you are probably burning ethyl alcohol made from American corn. A few years from now, your commute may be powered by ethanol from sugar cane grown in Brazil's cerrado, a biodiversity hotspot that is the largest savanna in...

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