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Jatropha is no miracle plant for hungry farmers
Meredith Alexander
15th February, 2010
Everyone wants an alternative to fossil fuels, but in our rush to develop biofuel alternatives, we risk creating even worse problems for ourselves more...
Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'
Andrew Wasley
15th February, 2010
UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different more...
Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania
Thembi Mutch
15th February, 2010
Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical more...
Palm oil plantations could be classified as forests
Ecologist
8th February, 2010
European Commission guidance would allow biofuels to be labelled as sustainable even if forests have been destroyed to make way for the palm oil plantations more...
US used quarter of 2008 grain crop to make biofuel
Ecologist
25th January, 2010
More than a quarter of the total US grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year, according to a new analysis more...
Do you want next generation biofuels? Have your say
Ecologist
22nd December, 2009
New consultation to look at whether the next generation of biofuels will be more environmentally-sustainable than current food crop varieties more...
Biofuels can be sustainable, say less industrialised nations
Ecologist
19th December, 2009
EU looking at the impact of land use changes on greenhouse gas emissions from moves to increase biofuel production more...
Councils using chip fat as fuel and road filler
Amy Dickson
5th November, 2009
Richmond council has become the first in the country to run its entire vehicle fleet on 100 per cent recycled biodiesel, while Lincolnshire is using the stuff to patch roads more...
Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century?
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2009
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact? more...
CASE STUDY: starting a local biofuel bus service
Jan Goodey
1st October, 2008
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus more...
Biofuels rather than electric cars to meet renewables target
Ecologist
22nd October, 2009
Industry research says biofuels, not electric cars or biogas likely to make up majority of renewable transport targets but admits some will need to be imported more...
Massive subsidies for biofuels 'disastrous'
Ecologist
17th August, 2009
Small-scale biofuels would reduce carbon emissions and help avert poverty in poorer countries, says Christian Aid reportmore...
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Biogas: is your council about to waste your waste?
David Strahan
4th August, 2009
Biogas - a methane-rich fuel made from rotting food waste or sewage - has huge potential as a clean, green fuel for the UK. But a perverse web of subsidies, rules and contracts could mean UK councils are about to kiss goodbye to the real power of waste... more...
ExxonMobil and Venter sign $600 million algae biofuel deal
Ecologist
15th July, 2009
Oli giant ExxonMobil has signed a $600 million deal with controversial genome scientist J Craig Venter to develop biofuels made from algae more...
Jatropha overtakes food crops in oil swindle
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
The use of the jatropha plant as a source of biofuel has gone from environmental hero to zero in the space of two years. more... NGOs question 2nd-generation biofuels
Ecologist
1st March, 2009
A group of US NGOs have published a letter examining second-generation biofuel technology. more...
Biofuels 2.0
Helena Paul
1st February 2009
A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports more...
Loopholes and scams dog ‘green’ energy
News
1st April, 2008
Green energy is coming under pressure to clean up its act after severe criticism of the Government’s attempts to change the rules on how renewable energy is calculated and further condemnation of the ‘splash and dash’ trading scam in biofuels. more...
Slippery territory
Mark Anslow
1st April, 2008
It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to inflate and burst. In February 2007, the Ecologist was almost alone in pointing out that growing energy crops for car fuel was ecological nonsense; now the tide of academic studies showing that agrofuels are neither energy - nor carbon-efficient seems unstoppable. more...
Problems with renewables - land wars
Paul Kingsnorth
1st April, 2008
Renewables good, fossil fuels bad... unless, of course, renewables begin to take up more and more land in order to meet our energy needs. Paul Kingsnorth adds fuel to a tricky debate. more...
Global palm oil demand linked to human rights abuses
News
13th February, 2008
Growing demand for palm oil is resulting in wide spread human rights abuses in Indonesia, claims a new report. more...
US wind power generation grows 45% in 2007
News
23rd January, 2008
The American Wind Energy Association has announced that 2007 US wind power generation made up 30 per cent of all new power generation in 2007 with 5,244 megawatts of new wind turbines installed in 2007 can power about 1.5 million U.S. homes. more...
Food and energy: a clash of giants
Maryann Bird
18th October, 2007
Two critical markets are pursuing a stressed planet’s renewable resources, presenting policymakers with complex and difficult choices. The Worldwatch Institute’s latest look at Earth’s “vital signs” sees dangerous times ahead as the “sustainability crisis” unfolds. China Dialogue's Maryann Bird investigates more...
Biofuels drive could cause more harm than good
News
8th October, 2007
China has announced a major drive towards the use of biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel - just as another report pours more water on the idea that biofuels will end the energy crisis. more...
Scrap biofuels target, say Friends of the Earth and OECD
News
11th September, 2007
The backlash against large scale biofuel production continues to build as Friends of the Earth urges the European Union to scrap its target for 10 per cent of transport fuel to come from crops by 2020. more...Members
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