Tag: Corn - Page 3
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Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver Requested By Texas Governor
I'm sorry if this is getting repetitive for our regular readers: rising corn prices, biofuels pushing people into poverty, meat prices set to increase, does corn-ethanol really increase food prices?
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Ethanol Gets Boost in Nebraska from Novozymes
More from the business side of renewable energy in the US today: first wind industry manufacturing expands, now ethanol production receives further investment...even if the corn won't be knee-high by July and corn prices
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Millions Of Acres Of Corn Won't Be Knee-High By Fourth Of July: But Meat Prices Will
The knock-on effects of the June of 2008 Upper Mississippi River basin floods will include meat prices being driven up much farther than could have been accomplished only by government incentives for corn-based ethanol. It's too late to replant
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Corn Ethanol Worsens Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone'
It's almost considered conventional wisdom at this point that corn ethanol probably isn't the best biofuel out there. It may not be the primary cause of global food shortages, but corn-based ethanol has nevertheless has gotten
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Corn Shuckin' Awe: Vote For It And They Will Come
May not be long before a bad summer drought in the corn belt leads to radical gasoline price hikes - as early as this summer if La Niña holds up. The risk offers the prospect of a fantastic 2008 election season. With corn providing 6% or more of
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Fuel (Bread): One Bushel At A Time
Most anywhere where corn is grown, you may substitute wheat in next year's planting. The opposite is not always true. In fact it's seldom true. As a general rule, corn won't easily grow where wheat is currently a dominant crop, unless irrigation is
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GM Corn In Europe: Withering Away Soon?
Three weeks ago John covered the continuing saga of GM corn, and the divide between U.S. and European environmental regulations. This week Nature news picked up the story, and the council for agricultural science and technology (CAST) threw in its two
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Review: Nau Asylum Jacket, Sanctuary from the Storm
No doubt you've seen their quietly spoken adverts on our site and thought, "Nau? What is that all about?" And the question would be a valid one.
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Ethanol: Not as Pointless As We Thought!
Despite some concern that the biofuel gold rush is waning, it appears now is still a good time to jump on the corn-based ethanol bandwagon. There is the 51 cent per gallon ethanol producer tax credit, an energy bill in the Senate that, if passed,
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Most Huggable: Australia Signs Kyoto, the "Corn Story," Global Warming Guy + More
Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in his first act after being sworn in this morning, leaving the US as the only developed nation not to have ratified it.
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Microbreweries Hopping Mad Over Biofuels
Just like in Germany, where biofuel incentives caused farmers to shift from barley to corn, in North America, farmers have been switching from hops production to corn, leading to a worldwide shortage. In the United States, where a quarter of hops are
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Weed it and Reap
Let's admit it, the farm bill is a snore. We have written a couple of posts that we thought would have TreeHuggers marching in the streets and not even a comment. It is so tedious that I missed Michael Pollan's article about it in the NY Times this
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Biofuels: When Subsidies and Special Interests Collide
Few debates have proved as highly contentious as the one pitting those who believe biofuels have a role to play in fighting global warming and securing our energy independence and those who view it as little more than a subsidy-laden boondoggle for
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Merrick's Earthsaver Corn Hangers
We all have these in our closets. Some of us more than others but they seem to lurk in excess at times. Ah yes, we speak of hangers of course. Now the majority of us have the metal ones we get from the dry cleaner or the plastic ones that we've had
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Opening Today in Theaters: King Corn
"If you take a McDonald's meal, you don't realize it when you eat it, but you're eating corn. Beef has been corn-fed. Soda is corn. Even the French fries. Half the calories in the French fries come from the fat they're fried in, which is
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Where Corn is King
Curt Ellis, star of the film King Corn, talks about the ubiquity of corn and his forthcoming film in this interview with Sustainable Table's Diane Hatz. ::Sustainable Table
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Buns of Corn: SkirtSports and Sorona
If you’ve been reading about textiles fashioned from corn or PLA (polylactic acid) you’ve probably been hearing plenty about Cargill’s NatureWorks Ingeo.* It is about to joined by a newish product, that we hinted at around a year ago, is soon to be
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Bait and Switchgrass
The LA Times has a terrific article outlining the problems with ethanol, whether from corn or cellulosic from plants like switchgrass. "Alcohol is best taken in moderation, and that applies to cars as much as people. Ethanol isn't all hype -- it's a
