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Bioplastic Toys for Bringing Up Baby Right and Just Maybe Less Obese
Yet again classic designs go green. This time in the form of bioplastic toys for the kiddies, brought to you by Green Toys. And just in time for fellow TreeHugger Kenny who's son Robert was born the other day. Due to be a father myself later this
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More Reasons to Plant Corn From Coast to Coast
Don't let any midwestern Senators see this; soon corn will not be just their answer to "energy security" but they will write one-liners into the defense budget suggesting that all our munitions be made from it as well. ::1936 Modern
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Ethanol: How the Fuel is Produced, Growing Corn and Other Feedstocks, and More
Ed. note: This post, about ethanol is now the third post (read about biodiesel and compost to catch up) in the Green Basics series of posts that TreeHugger is writing to provide basic information about important ideas, materials and technologies for new
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Intercropping Discovered To Decrease Need For Inorganic Phosphorus Fertilizer
"The practice of inter-cropping — which Chinese farmers have practiced for thousands of years — involves growing two or more crops in alternate rows in the same place and at same time, and can greatly increase grain yields. Li Long, Zhang Fusuo and
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Law Of Unintended Consequences: Corn Expansion Squeezes Biodiesel
This story could easily be filed under Conspiracy Theory, Oil Company-Based. But is it deserved? "The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday that farmers nationwide planted 92.9 million acres of corn this year - 19 percent more than last year
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Red State Welfare
Drive across the empty reaches of the Great Plains, from the lost promise of Valentine, Neb., to the shadowless side roads into Sunray, Tex., and what you see is a land that has lost its purpose. Many of the towns set in this infinity of flat have a
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Round and Round We Go: Is Corn-Based Ethanol Viable?
Over at The Oil Drum, Gail has just penned an exhaustive and, we think, invaluable post clarifying the perceived benefits and disadvantages of using corn-based ethanol as an alternative to fossil fuels. While we've already touched on this issue at
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They Can Have their Cellulose and Digest it Too
Corn-based ethanol, once the darling of renewable energy enthusiasts, has recently come under heavy criticism from many influential quarters in the science, business and public policy realms for several of its perceived fallacies. Its two main sticking
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Michael Pollan: The Government Makes You Fat
Michael Pollan looks at the way Government policy determines what we eat and why "the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person’s wealth." He quotes a study by Drewnowski of the University of Washington, who determined that a
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Which BioFuel Produces the Least NOx?
There's more to environmental friendliness than carbon neutrality. And while biofuels certainly promise to reduce our world's carbon emissions, we've got to keep tabs on things like nitrous oxide emissions as well. This is exactly what folks at the
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Kedrosky on the Nitrogen Fertilizer Perfect Storm
Everything I know about economics (which isn't much) I have learned from Paul Kedrosky, who notes that nitrogen fertilizer prices have gone through the roof. Corn needs fertilizer and we have noticed that there is a lot of corn being planted these
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A Multi-Fuel Stove: It Burns Corn, Wood Pellets, Cherry Pits
Most biomass burning stoves relegate themselves to particular types of fuel — for example, a stove that burns corn, will refuse to burn wood pellets correctly. There is, however, a stove called the Countryside Multi-Fuel Stove by Magnum that will
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Green Clothes from Organic Avenue
Corn, bamboo and hemp clothes. Recycled purses and seaweed fabrics. Vegan "leather" and pesticide-free cotton. Here's a nice little video for you fashion fans out there. They even say "treehugger" a few times, though not in reference to this site. Of
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George Bush, Meet Michael Pollan
According to the New York Times, "In his State of the Union address, President Bush is expected to call for a huge increase in the amount of ethanol that refiners mix with gasoline, probably double the current goal of 7.5 billion gallons by 2012." The
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Corn Demand from Ethanol Distilleries Vastly Understated
Investment in fuel ethanol distilleries has soared since the late-2005 oil price hikes, but data collection in this fast-changing sector has
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American Ethanol Production Up 25%
The United States churned out 4.9 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006 due almost entirely to increased demand. As more states mandated some amount of ethanol in gasoline and more automakers created flex-fuel cars. About 25% of Iowa's overall corn
