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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Wrong Question: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?
The Science Insider blog last week hosted an interesting debate between Tim Searchinger, Princeton visiting scholar, and John Sheehan, of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, regarding the recent policy proposal in the pages of Science by Searchinger et al. to “fix” the carbon accounting of biomass for bioenergy and biofuels in U.S. legislation and the successor to the Kyoto protocol, by giving credit only to biomass that can be managed Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, rainforest, Searchinger, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Tags: biofuel, biofuels, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, climate change legislation, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, rainforest, Searchinger, United Nations Climate Change Conference
Weekly Industrial and Environmental Bio Blog Roundup
This week we start off with a little Road Music, From Bluegrass to Switchgrass, from our colleagues at the Biofuels Center of North Carolina. They’ve put together a nice set of bluegrass pieces. To listen visit their web site. Gas2.0 announces this week that BP could start selling biofuels in 2010, writing that, “BP has partnered with Verenium to bring a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility online next year to start bringing alternative fuels to a Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biopreferred, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, ethanol, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, Land Use Change, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, Renewable Fuels Agency, Searchinger, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Road Music: From Bluegrass to Switchgrass
To get from here to there sometimes you need a little road music, and that’s just what the Biofuels Center of North Carolina is aiming to do. Earlier this week, according to Science in the Triangle, a RTI Fellows Symposium, “was held Monday and Tuesday at the University of North Carolina’s Friday Center in Chapel Hill. Global warming and what role biofuels will play in the energy supply were two of the scientific challenges addressed Read More >
Biotechnology for Sustainability
On the Tomorrow’s Table blog, Kent J. Bradford, Professor of Plant Sciences and Academic Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis, serves as guest blogger and takes issue with the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), an organization that manages the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Specifically, Bradford says CUESA developed sustainable agriculture guidelines which include build and conserve soil fertility, conserve water and protect water quality, protect air Read More >
Webinars for Reporters: Pacific Rim Summit to Host Forums on Algae, Cellulosic Biofuels and Renewable Chemicals
BIO will host three webinars from the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in Honolulu, featuring companies, researchers, and policy makers at the forefront of efforts to commercialize algae applications, cellulosic biofuels, and renewable chemicals. 1.International Developments in Algae Commercialization Valerie Reed, U.S. Department of Energy; Patrick McGinn, Institute of Marine Biosciences, National Research Council, Canada; Ravi Shrivastava, Defence Research Development Organization, India. Monday Nov. 9, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST (12:00 Read More >
