Corn ethanol: will it kill farming as we know it?
Escalating production of corn ethanol threatens the US farm economy and will result in increased environmental destruction and hunger among the world’s poor.
Coal-to-liquid: JUST SAY NO!
Lawmakers are proposing huge tax subsidies for the coal industry to develop liquified coal. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. Just say no to this proposal.
Up and up it goes, where it stops, nobody knows — but we’re still hitting the roads this weekend
US Americans appear willing to pay a lot more for gasoline before they cut back on driving, according to Washington Post/ABC poll.
Your tax money for more coal-fired power plants
Government loan program pours US tax dollars into coal-fire power plants in rural communities, subsidizing the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.
Climate change is in the news, now where is the action?
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
If getting the reality of global warming and climate change into the consciousness of this society is a reason for hope, then we are certainly making progress. No fewer than 5 articles in the NY Times today covered one aspect or another.
The most poignant, perhaps, is the one […]
US public sees global warming as problem, but ambivalent about sacrifice
Poll shows US Americans are worried about global warming, want the federal government to do more, but are resistant to sharp rise in gasoline taxes.
Our demand for biofuels could really make things worse
In pursuing greater consumption of palm oil-based biofuels, the European Union may end up contributing more greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to destruction of rainforests.
Another day, another report, another call for immediate action
Another group of scientists convened by the United Nations has called for swift and immediate action to curb the carbon emissions that are causing global warming.
Price of corn soars
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
This is a bit of a postscript to yesterday’s post on the problems with corn ethanol. I just caught up this morning with yesterday’s NY Times and found an editorial on precisely what we reported yesterday — that the drive to switch from corn for food and feed […]
Corn ethanol will raise food prices, create shortages
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
After all the IPCC hoopla, I wanted to get back to another related topic — corn ethanol — one of the products that President Bush and big agribusiness hope will replace gasoline in our cars. We have posted about this before. Corn ethanol has some pretty serious […]
