Olivia Zaleski, environmental columnist for the Huffington Post's new Green section, puts out a call for readers to nominate favorite bloggers. Go vote for your faves on Switchboard!
Work in Maui on algae to biofuels. Projected start date 2011 for 200 acres. At 5000 to 10000 gals per acre that's 1-2 million gallons!
By 2050, say University of Texas urologists Tom Brikowski and Margaret Pearle, most Americans will live in areas considered high-risk zones for the painful deposits, caused when minerals crystallize into chunks too large leave the bladder.
This is a thoughtful overview of the complexities of issues these days. Worth a read and not just becaues it links back to one of my posts.
Opting to flout the Supreme Court all the way to the end, the Bush administration will not act this year to regulate global warming pollution from cars, power plants, and other sources.
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.
