Headlines
- 06/25/09 - Genetic Modification of Sugar Cane?
- 06/12/09 - Palm Oil, Biofuels, & Narco Death Squads--The Failure of Bush & Obama's Plan Colombia
- 05/29/09 - Big Oil Gets Behind Cellulosic Ethanol?
- 05/26/09 - What the Financial Collapse Can Teach Us About the Food System
- 05/21/09 - House Ag Chief Peterson: Waxman-Markey is Mine, All Mine
- 05/19/09 - Collin Peterson is Threatening the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill in a Fight over Ethanol
- 04/29/09 - Agrofuels in the Americas: An Irrational Strategy
- 04/28/09 - Business Week: The Insane Biofuel Bubble
- 04/20/09 - California Takes on King Corn
- 03/11/09 - Hard Choice on Syngenta's Controversial Biotech Corn for Ethanol Awaits Vilsack
- 02/17/09 - Will USDA Head Vilsack Cheerlead Syngenta's New Controversial Biofuel Frankencorn?
- 02/10/09 - Union of Concerned Scientists Raises Questions About Genetically Modified Corn for Biofuel
- 02/03/09 - Biofuels More Harmful to Humans than Petrol and Diesel, Warn Scientists
- 01/21/09 - Vilsack Confirmed as USDA Secretary
- 01/15/09 - Vilsack Speaks Out for 'Agribusiness as Usual' at His Senate Confirmation Hearing
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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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