The controversy surrounding the use of biofuels (fuels derived from vegetable crops) gained extra ammunition last week when a report produced by British Members of Parliament (MPs) concluded that biofuels can ‘do more harm than good’ to...
I said my next post was going to be on President Bush’s state of the union address, but it was so boring to listen to… But I did listen to public radio this morning: Earth and Sky was talking to R.K. Stewart. Stewart is the 2007...
A report co-written by a Worldwatch Institute senior fellow says that “China will likely achieve—and may even exceed—its target to obtain 15 percent of its energy from renewables by 2020”. If China’s commitment to...
I recently read an article in the New York Times where the author stated that alternative energy would not reduce terrorism. The basic tension would still be there, even though the Muslim oil producing states would have less income to divert to...
I came across this interview with author John Naish, whose book Enough, described as a future-proof guide to consumption, has just been released on Hodder and Staughton. I have to admit to having become somewhat skeptical about the plethora of...
