Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
The NY Times got it right today regarding ethanol, editorializing about its real costs “ to the environment and to the global food supply. It’s expensive to produce, they write, it distorts agricultural production, drives up the price of food across the globe leading to social unrest, damages natural [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
We continue our cautionary tales regarding biofuels. While the Western world goes about looking for crops it can turn into fuels for our cars and trucks, questions continue about the impact the biofuels industry will have on the world’s ability to feed itself.
Yesterday, the NY Times had an article about [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Skimming through the Washington Post today, I came upon two very different articles that say something very important about two very different ways to approach the coming crises — the crisis of global climate change and the fossil fuel energy crunch.
Fossil fuels are the major sources of greenhouse gases that [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope
Today from Margaret Swedish:
Switching for a moment from water to corn.
The NY Times preached about corn yesterday, and their editorial folks posed the question — will the US corn ethanol boom “finally kill American farming as we know it”?
Yes, it’s true. The turn towards corn for fuel for our cars has begun [...]