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The Human Mind Isn’t Ready to Cut CO2 Emissions
The effect of millions of people choosing to save energy and recycle would make the difference in the climate change equation, but research shows that people are not ready to do much of either.This article lays out the problem and proposes some solutions. Read More...
Katrina: the Cost of Growth Over Environment
An article in the Houston Chronicle details how the US Corps of Engineers bulldozed the Mississippi Delta to bring Katrina's storm surge right into New Orleans -- in the name of growth. Read More...
The Clean Energy Scam
Michael Grunwald's article in Time Magazine nails together the issues of food-based ethanol production, massive deforestation and the resulting increase in greenhouse gases. Read More...
Corn-based Ethanol Cause of Hunger
Corn- and soybean-based ethanol isn't all that's causing hunger, but our use of feedcrops to produce fuel is a big factor, as this article notes. Read More...
How Ethanol is Made
For those of us who really want to know, the Renewable Fuels Association supplies a really simple description of how its done -- wet and dry methods for corn, and a different system for cellulosic ethanol. Read More...
Corn Ethanol — The Price Story
Written from an investor's point of view, this article really lays it out how the price of corn is related to the price of gasoline and to government mandates to include ethanolin the fuel you buy at the pump. Read More...
Starving for Fuel
Rising oil prices have prompted an increased demand for food-based fuels. As Lester Brown writes in this article in The Globalist, the increasing production of food-based fuels could cause more people to suffer from hunger and add to global political instability. Read More...