window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Note: My article on the recent trip to Choren is finished, but I am waiting to hear back from them before I post it. I signed a non-disclosure agreement before I toured the plant, and I want to make sure they are OK with what I wrote. As soon as I hear […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Fortune has a very interesting interview with Google co-founder Larry Page. He hits on a lot of topics that are frequently discussed here, and some that aren’t often discussed, but that I have spent a lot of time thinking about (e.g., geothermal). Here is a link to the interview:
Larry Page on how […]

Guardian: The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, yesterday called for world leaders to attend a summit in June to tackle the food price crisis that has triggered global social unrest. In the run up to the summit in Rome, a UN taskforce headed by a British diplomat, Sir John Holmes, will try to develop a coherent […]

Reuters: A moratorium on global grain- and oilseed-based biofuels would help ease raging wheat and corn prices by up to 20 percent in the next few years, a leading agriculture research group said on Tuesday. "Our models analysis suggest that if a moratorium on biofuels would be issued in 2008, we could expect […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Scotsman: PLACID and adorable, the Weddell seals are the most well-known and appealing of all the Antarctic seals, and are considered one of the "must-sees" by tourists on wildlife voyages to the frozen region. But the seals are more than just cute sea creatures – they have been invaluable in helping […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: UN agencies and the World Bank on Tuesday pledged to set up a task force to tackle soaring global food prices, while US President George W, Bush said high crop prices should not slow biofuel efforts. The international bodies called on countries not to restrict exports of food to […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Waste Management Inc said on Monday it would open the largest-ever facility to turn landfill gas into vehicle fuel, which will then be used in its own California collection trucks. The project will help the largest US trash hauler develop a source of low-carbon fuel, which is expected to […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Oregonian: For years, climate researchers puzzled over a long hot spell about 90 million years ago, when tropical breadfruit trees flourished in Greenland, crocodiles slithered above the Arctic Circle and at least a few dinosaurs roamed Antarctica. It’s a serious concern because the warmth came at least in part from […]

Independent: On a warm January afternoon in southern Ethiopia, thousands of ill-tempered livestock stand in groups with the pastoralists who have guided them for dozens of miles to drink. The animals dot an expansive field of Acacia trees, severed bits and pieces of dead grass and dust. Earlier in the day thousands of young […]

Washington Post: Erwin Johnson picks up a clump of the dark, rich soil that he has farmed for 35 years, like his father and grandfather before him. In a few months, this flat expanse of northern Iowa will be crowded with corn ready to be trucked to market. A year ago, that market got […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Canadian Press:  Alberta expects a U.S. working group to classify the province’s oilsands fuel as a conventional resource to exempt it from tough new restrictions on imports, provincial envoy Gary Mar said Tuesday. A major energy bill passed last year prohibits the American government from buying "alternative" fuels that produce […]

New York Times: It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Independent: Whether it is the Chinese firing weapons into the sky to make it rain, or the Thai government setting up a "royal rainmaking project", the science of weather modification has always had a touch of the sci-fi about it. So it is perhaps little surprise that the effectiveness of such an […]

Associated Press: Citing green hotels, coconut oil fuel for airlines and even recyclable golf tees, executives in one of the world’s largest industries say they are urgently trying to shrink tourism’s oversized environmental footprint. But with global travel projected to keep soaring, and those very leaders still eager to expand their own ventures, some […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;EurekAlert: Social factors, including economic pressures caused by climate change, could lead to an increase in HIV infection rates world-wide, warns a leading researcher from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Daniel Tarantola, Professor of Health and Human Rights at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, says that […]