Crosscut Seattle - Gauging the biofuels backlash
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.
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Nathanael Greene's Links Tagged "foodvsfuel"
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest | csmonitor.com
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
Yale Environment 360: Program To Help Small Farmers Triples Corn Harvest in Kenyan Community
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.
Corn Guy TV
Entertaining and a little educational. Worth a watch.
Growing Biofuels: The Sustainability Opportunity
Good post by Patrick Mazza from Climate Solutions about how the backlash against biofuels is getting some in the industry (at least at one conference) to think about sustainability.
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