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• Amazon deforestation is on the decline, while U.S. ethanol production increases

  
  Ethanol. Right. Now. — Authority: 110
  The theory of "indirect land use change" maintains that if an acre of corn in the United States is used for ethanol production, an acre elsewhere in the world will be converted to agriculture to make up for it --...
  1 week ago

• From Pacific Rim Summit: Specialty Crops, Renewable Feedstocks & Sustainability

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 414
  This panel on the second day of the Summit consisted of Richard Gustafson from the University of Washington, Gillian Madill, an independent consultant representing views of the environmental NGO community and John Sheehan, from the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. While Mr. Gustafson and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 414
  The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton visiting scholar, and John Sheehan, of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, regarding the recent policy proposal in the pages of Science by Searchinger et al. to “fix” the carbon ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekly Industrial and Environmental Bio Blog Roundup

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 414
  This week we start off with a little Road Music, From Bluegrass to Switchgrass , from our colleagues at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina . They’ve put together a nice set of bluegrass pieces. To listen visit their web site . Gas2.0 announces this week that BP could start selling biofuels in 2010, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rehabilitating The Concept of Bio-Fuels: Part One

  
  Sustainablog — Authority: 500
  In 2006 I attended a BIO meeting in Toronto focused on the new bio-based economy .  Oil had just risen to $70/barrel and it was a time when environmental NGOs, biotech companies and even oil companies seemed to be on the “same page” in terms of their enthusiasm for moving to plant-based feedstocks as the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The direct effects of oil, strikingly depicted on screen and in photographs

  
  Ethanol. Right. Now. — Authority: 110
  In the midst of so much talk of the "indirect effects" attributed to biofuels, there are two new opportunities to view the real impact of petroleum -- on screen and in photographs. "Crude: The Real Price of Oil" is a...
  3 weeks ago

• Study Concludes Most Land Cover Change Increases Temperatures

  
  Spatial Sustain — Authority: 426
  Researchers have completed a study that found that almost all changes in land cover that removes vegetative cover results in increased surface temperatures. The findings are already adding significant weight to the recognition that land use change needs to be incorporated into computer models that are designed to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Record soy exports expose critical flaw in land use theory

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 414
  As has been pointed out multiple times on this blog , there are serious flaws in the theory of indirect land use change (ILUC) and the models used to predict it. But that’s not where the flaws end. There are also significant errors in data. As National Biodiesel Board CEO Joe Jobe said in a recent interview ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is Global Scale Biofuels Production Good or Bad for Climate Change?

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 629
  There has been a lot of discussion over the last few years about biofuels and whether or not they are actually green, especially when produced on a large, global level. A new study led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) senior scientist Jerry Melillo says no, they aren’t green (whe it comes to climate change). ...
  4 weeks ago

• Industrial and Environmental Biotech in the Blogosphere

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 414
  This week we start off with a United Nations report that urges caution on biofuels. Green Inc, a New York Times blog writes, “The study concluded that whether a biofuel is climate-friendly or not depends largely on whether it is based on crops or production residues. Biofuels of the latter category were ...
  5 weeks ago

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