BIOFUELS 2006: HOW IS THE GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN SHAPING UP?

Switchgrass – reputed to be an energy
positive and carbon negative biofuel

Editor’s Note: Biofuel entrepreneur Louis Strydom reports from the Biofuels Finance & Investment World which was held in late 2006 in London, U.K. He brings some sobering macroscopic updates to our ongoing coverage of [...]

Editor’s Note: One of the most powerful political speeches we’ve seen in recent years, if ever, is the passionate critique of the media leveled by Al Gore. This “other” latest cause of the esteemed former Vice President is unerring in its truth, and unsparing in its victims. Gore quite accurately presents today’s media as lapdogs [...]

Assume global warming is real, caused by humans, and can be averted through immediate collective action on the part of all humanity. How then might we analyse what to do about global warming, based on everything we know?
The return on investment, in terms of time required, cost to implement, and immediate impact to cool [...]

If photovoltaics show promise to totally replace coal as a clean source of electricity, how would they perform to provide fresh water from seawater?

Photo: water-technology.net

Desalinating seawater is not cheap. Based on costs for a state of the art desalinization facility in Ashkelon, Israel, as reported in WaterTechnology.net, it costs about US $2.0 billion [...]

IT ISN’T REFORESTATION UNLESS THE END RESULT IS A FOREST

Costa Rica’s famed Mt. Arenal Volcano
Even lava flows are not as destructive
as anthropogenic deforestation

Editor’s Note: For several years now we have covered the efforts of Finca Leola, a company in Costa Rica who have established reforesting operations that are a model for companies throughout the [...]