Press Release: Farm Bill Conference Report Called “Mixed Bag”
| Climate change and human extinction–are you ready to be fossilized? Climate change killed the dinosaurs. Will it kill us as well? This was the grim message that hung in the background of the Climate Change Forum hosted on Friday by the Philippine National Red Cross. |
| OPINION Biofuels 2.0: It’s Time for Congress to Act Efforts to replace oil with biofuels in the United States are at a critical juncture. Double-digit growth in the production of corn-based ethanol has contributed to a sharp increase in grain and soybean prices while failing to deliver the environmental gains that had been hoped for.It’s time to reduce the incentives for food-based biofuels and accelerate the transition to more sustainable alternatives - the so-called “next-generation” cellulosic technologies, which are expected to become viable in the coming years. |
| Solar Power goes to Extremes for 5 cents per kiloWatt-hour (kWh) Michelle Bennett of Cleantechnica.com with the latest on solar concentrators coupled to solar panels: “We already know that concentrated solar power (CSP) is shaking things up in the solar industry. A subset within the industry is turning up the heat. EUR |