Important partial victory/reprieve in our campaign with Rainforest Rescue to end food and industrial agriculture based biofuels http://tinyurl.com/dco23b ....
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227024.400-rainforests-may-pump-winds-worldwide.html?full=true 01 April 2009 by Fred Pearce THE acres upon acres of lush...
The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2009 has successfully passed through the necessary Parliamentary stages and comes into force on 15...
Report at http://www.princesrainforestsproject.org/images/stories/pdfs/prp_report_april_09.pdf some proposals on how "to achieve a significant reduction in...
The EU's energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs said that the Commission has now analysed the available data, concluding that biofuel production had "little...
We have uploaded two files, HR875.pdf and S425.pdf to BiofuelWatch, being the Food Safety Modernization Act 2009 and Food Safety and Tracking Act, which are...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1888728_1888736,00.html BRYAN WALSH There are at least 8 million unique species of life on the...
Biofuels Environmental Impact: First international science-based consensus report On Thursday, April 2, an international team of scientists will release a...
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And now, antibiotic resistance.... ... Ethanol, bugs, and drugs by Brian Devore | March 27, 2009 • Agro-environmental shocker of the week: corn-based ethanol...
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1. http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/april/02/yehey/opinion/20090402opi6.html Thursday, April 02, 2009 DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE By Nora O. Gamolo A new...
Press Release 6th April 2009 Global Civil Society Opposes Charred Earth Policy 147 organisations from 44 countries warn against 'biochar' (large-scale ...
1. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2297004.htm Governments Urged to Support Global Deal for Aviation Enviro.aero, the only global association that...
CBI - Confederation of British Industry, UK. The CBI's vision for a "low-carbon economy", published today, amongst many other measures calls for more biofuels...
'Biochar', a new big threat to people, land, and ecosystems Keep 'biochar' and soils out of carbon trading Caution urged against proposals for large scale use...
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Shell, who recently announced that they would be ending their minimal investments in solar and wind in order to invest more extensively in biofuels, is holding...
A report from the UNESCO Institute for Water Education: Water footprint of bio-energy and other primary energy carriers P.W. Gerbens-Leenes A.Y. Hoekstra Th.H....
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Following are Ron Larson's comments on our document "Biochar for Climate Mitigation: Fact or Fiction". Our responses to specific points are inserted (in bold...
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BURNING WOOD FOR ELECTRICITY: WHAT DOES IT TAKE? 5 biomass burning electric utilities are proposed for the state of Massachussetts and would increase...
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BIOENERGY AND BIOFUEL-FUTURE OF PAKISTAN???????? Â The world is on the verge of an unprecedented increase in the production and use of biofuels and bioenergy...
Costing the Earth This Monday at 21:00 on BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jm3l3 Sales of wood burning stoves have rocketed over recent months....
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from Le Monde diplomatique - April 2009 (English Addition) Trade-off between green oil and agricultural reform Brazil: who gets the cake? Thousands of women...
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6ogZotbuhkV2EmKFNNlLN2VDjmQD97F7C203 By MARY CLARE JALONICK – 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The increased...
Soils need living carbon as humus Burning trees and biomass has ironically emerged as a "solution" to climate change. Following the false solution of...
Farming biofuels produces nitrous oxide. This is 300x as bad for climate change as carbon dioxide. Food not fuel. http://tinyurl.com/chp8vc Note Ecological...
FRISCO, Colo. — As the U.S. Forest Service looks for ways to use vast amounts of beetle-killed wood, an ages-old process called biochar is emerging as an...
Water Embodied in Bioethanol in the United States Yi-Wen ChiuÝ, Brian Walsethý and Sangwon Suh*ý Water Resources Science and Department of Bioproducts and...
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http://planetark.org/wen/52420 Water Worries Cloud Future For U.S. Biofuel Date: 14-Apr-09 Country: US Author: Carey Gillam A process operator shows a handful...
For the digest. This is useful. Perhaps they should look at the ROC stuff people are putting into power stations, like oil palm waste. Helena Biomass 'worse...