Smog from illegal wildfires attributed to landowners in SE Asia, particularly plantation owners, is worsening in the region as the current dry season...
George Monbiot's new website, www.turnuptheheat.org/ comments on Branson's investment in biofuels for aviation, and asks people to write to both Branson and to...
I agree... but are we not missing the big point here.... One hand waves a green flag and goes on about investing in saving the planet... the other hand is...
Richard Branson interviewed on his climate-related plans on BBC World Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml I'm glad...
Below you will find some interesting news which I was sent by FERN. It's not just asking for a ban on palm oil in biofuels: The European Parliament's industry...
More on the above story at: http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/default/dok/150/150276.biomass_and_biofuels@... . This write-up by the European Greens is the only...
http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy/eu-extend-energy-crop-aid-scheme/article-158169 EU to extend energy crop-aid scheme In Short: The Commission has proposed...
Hi, Two quick actions from FoE and the forests blog - a few clicks and the emails are sent on your behalf. 1. Stop EPAs hurting the poor and planet (very...
We have just published our new action alert: Please write to Npower and ask them not to burn palm oil in power stations under the Renewables Obligation....
Hello, this is a personal appeal for help, though very much related to this debate. I am helping to draft an action alert for a different climate change...
This is a Biofuelwatch action-related notice (there have been discussion forum posts about the following already.) First, an urgent action alert before the...
This is a Biofuelwatch action-related notice. Please will all those who, a few weeks ago, complained to the European Commission about the 'summary of the...
(i) Rebuttal of a letter in New Scientist. Correspondence on Fred Pearce's excellent biofuels feature in New Scientist appears in the new issue and at:...
1. Richard Branson plans to run some trains on a biodiesel blend: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,,1923408,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1 ...
The German Save the Rainforest (Rettet den Regenwald) campaign have joined our email action trying to stop RWE/Npower from burning palm oil under the...
... Well, I must say that if we are going to be using biofuels *at all,* I applaud their use in trains, rather than in SUVs! This action also appears to be in...
Talking about biofuels for trains, this seems to be a promising approach (report from june 2005): Sweden tests first biogas train Sweden has unveiled an...
There is an interesting background article on Yahoo's Business Week Europe: http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/18102006/244/southeast-asia-s-clean- air-conundrum.html I...
... My analysis is that biogas is appropriate for low-pressure applications (lighting, cooking), but that the energy needed to compress enough of it into a...
Sustainable Bioenergy - Challenges and Opportunities International Confererence convened by the German NGO Forum Environment & Development and the United...
Below is an article from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Organisation International Website. The fires may now be as bad as in 1997, and the scale of disaster...
More green car geen wash ... http://motoring.independent.co.uk/features/article1919451.ece Bio-diesel supercar: The green mean speed machine Finally, a...
The BBC's presentation of the WWF study of Ecological Footprints can be viewed at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6080074.stm While I haven't analysed the...
Dear members of the list, Maybe someone could help my colleague with a question concerning water-related implications of the eventual biofuels expansion. Any...
An interesting article today about scientists and environmnetal groups calling for the kind of action which we demand in the alert regarding peat-fires. I...
This is a Biofuelwatch action-related notice. Please write to your MP to oppose any further biofuel target announcements at the present time (such as risk...
The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, recently discussed the issues of environmental impacts of palm oil production and logging with the Malaysian Prime...
This is a key article from yesterday’s Guardian re: biofuels/food security– Background : It was not going to be long before market pressures led to direct...