Tag: Biofuels - Page 12
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Dartmouth U Students Spend Summer Vacation on Green Road Trip
Riding the "Vehicle for Change," a team of 15 Dartmouth College grads and students "dedicated to diminishing environmental and economic issues through education," clamored aboard the Big Green Bus to drive 12,000 miles across the US. On June 17, they
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Confirmed: Biofuels Better Than Fossil Fuels in Jet Engines - Scaling Them Up is the Major Problem
The gist of it is something that has been repeatedly
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Swedish Greenwash: 'Fossil-Fuel Free' by 2020 Says Skåne
Swedes are fond of making sweeping proclamations - oil-free by 2050, they promised, and now Skåne, the country's southernmost region, is claiming it will end its dependence on fossil fuels by 2020
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The FUEL Film: Where We Came From & Where We're Going With Renewable Energy (Review)
At tonight's IREO Renewable Energy Awards at the United Nations, film director and author Josh Tickell will be named a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and accept an award for his work. What work you say? Well, the trailer embedded above for his film
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Belgian Biofuels Company Secretly Developed Algae Cultivation System
Working under the radar of the media, Belgian biofuels company Proviron has quietly developed a new approach to algae cultivation. At the first general assembly and conference of the newly founded European Alga Biomass Association,
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5 Boundary-Pushing Ways to Generate Renewable Energy
We all may still be suckling at the fossil fuel teat, but renewable energy certainly has broken into the mainstream at least in concept. There's still a long, long road ahead of us to bring enough green power online to
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Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2009 International Finalists Announced
If you're involved in the deploying locally-available renewable energy in the developing world with the aim of combatting climate change and reducing poverty, then being a finalist for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy is a
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Pay No Attention to the Whining Indonesian Palm Oil Industry: The Deforestation, Climate Change & Biodiversity Concerns Are Genuine
Sometimes you read an industry statement that is so ludicrous that you you can't help but laugh. Such are the remarks in Reuters by the head of the Indonesia Palm Oil Growers
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PG&E; Buys Dairy's Biogas to Offset Its Own Pollution: A Green Deal for Customers?
I'm a big proponent of green power programs with utilities as an easy way for people to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, provided that the the program actually buys electricity that is fed into the grid. That's not
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Biofuels Produced at the Expense of Tropical Forests Are No Victory: Bill Clinton Tells Brazil
I guess when you're a former US president with a well-respected eponymous humanitarian foundation you can really lay into a touchy subject without much mincing of
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All Unmanaged Forests Gone by 2100, Replaced by Biofuel Crops - If Forest Carbon Emissions Not Included in Climate Change Policy
With all the recent wrangling over whether emissions from land-use changes ought to be included in determining which biofuels are truly low-carbon fuel sources, this next one is very much apropos: New research done at the
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BiodieselSMARTER Magazine Now Has a Blog
Image: Biodieselsmarter.com Something to Add to Your RSS Reader BiodieselSMARTER magazine is a great source of information (heck, of entertainment if you love biodiesel as much as those guys) for DIYers, homebrewers, community scale biodiesel producers,
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Algae-Powered Big Rig That Transforms Into A Locomotive
The Chiron Transportation concept transforms between both a big rig and a locomotive. Powered by an algae-based fuel cell engine, the Autobot-wannabe also comes with a satellite tracking system for navigating railways
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50 Million Acres in Africa Snapped Up in 'Massive Neocolonial Grab'
Every couple of months the spectre of neo-colonialism in Africa raises its hideous form in the context of land being taken by foreign countries for food or biofuel production. Relating an article from Business Week,
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Algae Biofuel Pioneer GreenFuel Technology Closes Down
Calling themselves a "victim of the economy," algae biofuel company GreenFuel Technologies is shutting down, Greentech Media reports:TreeHugger had of GreenFuel
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Jatropha Biofuel Yields in Indian Wastelands 80% Below Forecasts
Though plenty of reports have been done in the past two years indicating that while jatropha curcas does grow in marginal conditions, to produce consistent crops yields at levels suitable for
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India Wants More Biofuels, But Supply and Convoluted Tax Laws Hamper Efforts
With all the recent wrangling over California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the Federal Renewable Fuel Standard it's heartening (if only in the ever popular spirit of schadenfreude) to see that other nation's efforts to
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Cellulosic Biofuels May Be No Better Than First Generation Fuels, Here's Why
With the reputation of first generation biofuels like corn ethanol darkly tarnished, the move is on to develop second-generation biofuels that
