Posted in agriculture, big business, biodiversity, biofuels on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Emmett Duffy, Professor of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, at the Natural Patriot has several recent posts on biofuels:
The promise of biofuels: a lot of hot air?
Biofuels and sustainability: the pros weigh in
Amber waves of . . . automotive fuel?
He also points to the collection [...]
Posted in US politics, agriculture, biofuels, sustainability on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At Grist Tom Philpott asks, “Why are biofuels losing steam in Europe — and barreling ahead in the U.S.?” His short essay neatly ties up the connection between growing crops for biofuels, the need for fossil fuel based fertilizer to do that, how it is increasing the removal of rain forests, and how the [...]
