Biofuels
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Solar, Wind, & Subterfuge
Something that long hasn’t set well with me in the green movement is that so much of it is based…
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Some Recent Advances in Biofuel Research
Even though use of fossil fuel leads to emission of harmful gases, which cause such negative environmental effects as receding…
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Centralisation and our Fossil Fuel Future
Globalisation seems to mean centralisation, which means that people are expected to travel more and greater distances as the world…
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inDUSTrial agriculture
inDUSTrial agriculture is a parody commercial about sustainable farming. Chemical agriculture bears an uncanny resemblance to the pharmaceutical industry. Both…
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Island Earth: Documentary
A documentary exploring the GMO controversy in Hawaii and those determined to create more local and sustainable food systems.
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Creating the Alternative: Journey to The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
by Mo Lohre and Will Redwine Geoff Lawton, Rumi, poisonous berries, student activists, NASA lunar/Martian construction and breaking a vow….…
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Democracy and Diversity Can Mend Broken Food Systems – Final Diagnosis from UN Right to Food Expert
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today called for the world’s…
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The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world. In principle it’s a brilliant solution. Instead…
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The Benefits Claimants the Government Loves
Corrupt, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policy. Soil erosion in a maize field. Photo: Defra…
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security in a Changing Climate
Click to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development…
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The Global Land Rush
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute Between 2007 and mid-2008, world grain and soybean prices more than doubled. As…
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Food or Fuel?
by Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute At the time of the Arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the…
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