Tag: Ethanol - Page 9
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Biofuel Comparison Chart: The "Good," the Bad and the (Really) Ugly
Courtesy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer comes this nifty side-by-side comparison chart (see here for a blown-up version). The article does a nice job of running through the (many) problems associated with biofuels,
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The TH Interview: Jeffrey Sachs, The World's Sustainable Economist
A few years ago, I wouldn’t have known who Jeffrey Sachs was had I not walked into my university bookstore and beelined my way towards a book jacket announcing a special foreword by Bono. Always a fan of Bono’s music and philanthropic work, and intrigued
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Most Huggable: Barbie Models Green, Seasonal Eating in May, America's Sexiest Cities + More
Is Mattel’s Barbie BCause line bogus?
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EWG Reveals Who Benefits Most from Direct Subsidy-Laden Farm Bill
It's not often we find ourselves agreeing with President Bush's viewpoint but, in the case of the subsidy-larded farm bill, we'll make an exception. As Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group,
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UN Taps Chinese Siren As First Eco Ambassador
When the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced its first National Goodwill Ambassador to promote environmental responsibility yesterday, they picked the right person: actress Zhou Xun. Sure, Zhou has green cred -- she turns off the tap
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Most Huggable: Vertical Farming, The Cost of Corn, Eco-Toys for Tots + More
The Pacific Northwest caps the U.S. in the least gas consumption.
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Food Fight: "Perfect Storm" Brewing
The worldwide food crisis deepens, and it isn't just ethanol; drought in Australia, greater demand for meat, futures traders going long, cost of fuel for transport and fertilizer, it is all adding up.
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"Green Gasoline": Like Gasoline, But Made from Cellulose
Though they may share many of the same compounds and properties, "green gasoline," the creation of UMass chemical engineer George Huber, differs from regular gasoline in one important respect: it can be produced from biomass sources. And, unlike the
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Most Huggable: Good Clean Fun, The Great Corn Debate, A Paper-Free Zine + More
Score a bag of clean, green goodies.
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Biogasoline: The Greener Alternative to Ethanol?
Why bother with corn ethanol - heck, even cellulosic ethanol - when biogasoline will do in a pinch? Wisconsin-based Virent Energy Systems, whose liquid biofuel-powered hydrogen generator we covered a few years back, is collaborating with Royal Dutch
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New York International Auto Show Is Good, Not Perfect
"We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," says Charlie Territo from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, as we weave our way through the latest and greatest green technologies at this year's New York International Auto Show.
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Most Huggable: Wave-Powered Boating, Green Buildings Cut Carbon, Wastewater Treatment Tech + More
Check out Kenichi Horie, who will attempt to travel between Hawaii and Japan (that's 4,350 miles) this month in a wave-powered boat.
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Lots Of Ethanol, And More on the Way
Ah ethanol, we're never quite sure what to make of it. Sometimes we hear that ethanol is not as pointless as we thought, and then we learn that it may even be worse than its fossil-fuel brethren. But whatever our opinion, the undeniable fact is that
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Biofuels as Help or Hindrance: WorldChanging Digs Deep
Biofuels have been getting a rough ride in the media recently. Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing
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Survey: Transit or Car In Your Future?
Every day TreeHugger is filled with battery powered Mercedes or hydrogen powered road rockets as if these are the answers that will keep us humming. Everyone is investing in cars and the fuels or batteries that run them while $ 3.2 billion is being
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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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Cuba: Can 'Red' Ethanol Be Green?
After 49 years in power, Fidel Castro has stepped aside and allowed his brother Raúl, 76, to become president. While hopes that "a younger generation might take power" have been washed away, many still expect to see changes with the "pragmatic
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Syntec Biofuel: Closer to Fuel from Waste
TreeHugger readers made some good points in the comments of a recent post about biodiesel. It's indeed always a dilemma between happy and sad when there's a step in the right direction in something that is far from perfect to begin with. In the
