Headlines
- 08/24/08 - Obama and Big Corn
- 08/15/08 - A Viable, Alternative Bio-Fuel is Rarely Mentioned
- 08/06/08 - Exposed: Europe's GM-Hype in Times of Food and Fuel Crisis
- 07/26/08 - Monsanto's New Front Group
- 07/25/08 - Ethanol Production Soars but Opposition Mounts
- 07/25/08 - Monsanto & ADM Set Up New Front Group to Deflect Ethanol Criticism & to Promote GMOs
- 07/23/08 - On the Washington Post's Call to Gut the Conservation Reserve Program
- 07/19/08 - Thinking Twice About Using Crop Waste for Biofuels
- 07/12/08 - Corn, Incorporated: The Ethanol Scam
- 07/10/08 - Tom Philpott on The 'Secret' World Bank Biofuel Report
- 07/08/08 - World Food Shortage and the Ethanol Bubble
- 07/08/08 - Who Ate My Tortillas? -- The Truth About Food vs. Fuel
- 07/07/08 - EU Considers Dumping Biofuels While U.S. Continues to Bully Global South to Adopt Gene-Altered Crops
- 07/06/08 - NY Times--The Global Food Crisis is Being Caused by Disastrous Farming, Trade, & Energy Policies
- 07/04/08 - Secret Report: Biofuels Are Causing Food Crisis
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The GNA Platform:
Press the politicians to support:
- A law requiring American cars to get at least 50 miles to the gallon by 2020 and a moratorium on all new coal and nuclear plants.
- A U.S. energy sustainability program that would withdraw $40 billion in annual subsidies from fossil fuels and establish equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources.
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Resources
- Rainforest Action Network
Advocating for wide-ranging changes in environmental policy internationally since 1985. - Sustainable Bioenergy:
A Framework for
Decision Makers
Report, from UN-Energy (a United Nations interagency combine). Addresses the problematic nature of ethanol-based biofuels. - The False Promise
of Biofuels
Report from the International Forum on Globalization.
Infobits
"...the UN has just published a report suggesting that 98% of the natural rainforest in Indonesia will be degraded or gone by 2022. Just five years ago, the same agencies predicted that this wouldn't happen until 2032. But they reckoned without the planting of palm oil to turn into biodiesel for the European market. This is now the main cause of deforestation there and it is likely soon to become responsible for the extinction of the orangutan in the wild."
- George Monbiot
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