Three different news items highlight the vast differences in viewpoint and the continuing uncertainty around the farming of Jatropha by small scale farmers as a feedstock for Europe’s refineries moving towards meeting the EU’s renewable liquid fuel goals. Clarity on What Jatropha Can Deliver At the recent Africa Biofuels Conference in Midrand South Africa, Vincent [...]
Jatropha – Careful Science, Uninformed Optimism and Simplistic Implementation
June 8, 2009 By 3 Comments
David de Rothschild Discusses His Upcoming Plastiki Voyage
June 8, 2009 By 6 Comments
Sunday Streets Takes Over the Mission
June 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
Thousands of my fellow San Franciscans poured into the beautiful car-free space of the Mission District yesterday for Sunday Streets. The warm sunny day inspired scores of families, bicyclists, dogs, pedestrians, dancers, roller-bladers and skaters to come together and frolic in our city’s public streets.
TVA Ships Toxic Coal Ash to Georgia and Alabama
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Georgia and Alabama are now storing more than 1000 tons of the fly ash that leaked from a Tennessee coal fired power plant in December. [Creative Commons photo by Jim Combs] The spill, which dumped over 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic sludge in the area around the Kingston coal plant, was over 120 times [...]
The ‘Us’ Bus of Climate Change: From Bonn to Copenhagen
June 8, 2009 By 3 Comments
As we evolve towards a new global climate change policy regime at Copenhagen later this year via the negotiations currently going on in Bonn, a willingness to step in each other’s shoes gets more and more critical and primary. On one hand are the developing countries like India, where emphasis has been on highlighting [...]
