Really interesting, high-level interview of Rocky Mountain Institute energy guru Amory Lovins, from the McKinsey Quarterly.
Lead author of a new report from the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program: Rising temperatures boost the probability of extreme weather that can "lead to the type of events we are seeing in the Midwest."
This looks interesting. Argues for using the carbon allowances and auction revenues from a cap and trade system carefully to drive this type of innovation.
As I mentioned in a related note, while this does show that as a globe we're not food constrained, it does not disprove the economic dynamics that drive LUC and the related GHG emissions
This by Ropbert Rapier, who is generally pretty sharp, and helpful in trying to understand what the heck is happening in the ethanol market
The CSM article mentioned here shows that on a global scale, food is not supply limited, but that doesn't mean reductions in supply due to today's biofuels don't cause price increase and land-use change. They do until we fix the system.
The economics of supply and demand are impossible to deny. As a result we need to regulate biofuels so that their feedstocks don't drive these impacts.
This issue of Science is full of articles on forestry. Critical reading for anyone wondering about using woody biomass for energy
Haven't read this yeet, but it looks interesting. Intro says, solar will grow 20-40 fold by 2020.
This looks interesting. While I like the requirement to provide improvements across the board, there should also be incentives for improvement above the standards.
Recycling CFLs is about to get a lot easier.
Couldn't agree more with the headline and the study apparently points out that renewable fuel policies need to look at the lifecycle GHG emissions.
Having personally spent time ripping kudzu out of trees and bushes, I like the idea doing anything that would beat this plant back, but this treads close to the line of promoting invasive species to make biofuel, which we simply shouldn't do.
If your nose is like mine, it's always known that something's not right with that new-shower-curtain stench. A new study confirms it.
Key lines of this Tribune editorial: "Clearly, we cannot sit idly by as disasters worsen and economic costs balloon. The Lieberman/Warner act is a reasonable first step."
