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

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  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 ...
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• Pacific Rim Summit — Biobutanol: Overcoming the Barriers

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  The biobutanol panel at the 2009 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy had three dynamic speakers from the biobutanol industry: Pat Gruber, CEO of Gevo, Inc. ; Jay Kouba, CEO of Tetravitae Bioscience and Rick Wilson, CEO of Cobalt Technologies . Besides the individual company presentations ...
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• New Tool for Determining Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Hydrogen Infrastructure and Fuel Cell Vehicles

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 583
  GHG analysis for hydrogen from renewable sources (HR) and fossil sources (HF), compared to advanced gasoline ICE vehicles (Scenario G). The portion of GHG emissions associated with gasoline ICE vehicles is distinguished from those associated with HFCV. Credit: ACS, Stephens-Romero et al. Click to enlarge. ...
  6 days ago

• Sky Vegetables Take Roofs to New Heights

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 108
  Sky Vegetables takes a slightly unique twist in rooftop gardening by covering all the administrative stuff, having others put in the equipment and make its money only from the sale of vegetables. What’s good is that it aims to use proven technologies like solar to help it take off. At the same time its pretty high ...
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• UN Report Calls Lifecycle Analysis “Limited”

  
  GoodFuels — Authority: 110
  A new report finds that current methods of determining lifecycle analysis for biofuels are “limited” and “show a wide range of net greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuels.” The report , by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, ...
  3 weeks ago

• UNEP Report Calls for More Sophisticated Approach to Developing Biofuels; Limitations of Current LCA Studies

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 583
  Rapeseed biodiesel as an example of the varied environmental impacts of a particular biofuel. Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. Source: “Assessing Biofuels”. Click to enlarge. A far more sophisticated approach ...
  3 weeks ago

• All Your Eggs in One Basket

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  Biofuels Digest reported this week that DoE Secretary Chu told attendees of an alternative energy conference, “If it were up to me, I would put every cent into electric cars.” The following day, Biofuels Digest reported its own lifecycle analysis of E85 from corn and the Tesla electric car . According to ...
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• New Study Concludes Substantial Quantities of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land-Use Change in the Boreal Forests for Oil Sands Production Are Unreported

  
  Green Car Congress — Authority: 583
  A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and/or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta’s oil sands. These land-use change emissions have not previously been measured nor reported by ...
  5 weeks ago

• Corn Growers Try to Understand Indirect Land Use Change

  
  Advanced Biofuels and Climate Change Information Center — Authority: 417
  The National Corn Growers Association’s recent “Land Use: Carbon Impacts of Corn Based Ethanol 2009” conference highlighted the confusion the issue of indirect land use change has engendered for farmers. Chuck Zimmerman of AgWired summed it up in a report from the conference: Do you understand things like ...
  8 weeks ago

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