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The RFS and the corn-soy-deforestation connection

January 4, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: biofuels, brazil, corn, globalwarming pollution, markettransformation, rainforest, soybeans

December's Science carried a wonderfully insightful letter from William Laurance from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. (Here's the link to the letter, if you have a subscription, or Climate Progress has pasted it in full here.) In the letter, Laurance...continued→

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Bad news and good news on palm oil

October 1, 2007

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: biodiesel, biofuels, indonesia, malaysia, orangutan, palmoil, rainforest, videos

First the bad news: As reported by Sky News the demand for palm oil for biodiesel is contributing to the destruction of some of the world's most precious rainforests. I highly recommend the video included with the article. The article focuses...continued→

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: Nathanael Greene; Director of Renewable Energy Policy; New York City; I coordinate NRDC's work on renewable energy--fuels and power--and policies that will advance them. For...; more→