Posted on March 14, 2008 by pwintersatbiodotorg
The debate over “carbon debt” created by changes in land use has recently expanded to include the issue of competition between food and fuel and its effect on developing countries.
David Tilman of the University of Minnesota, one of the lead authors of the “Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt” article in Science, recently held [...]
Filed under: Climate Change, Food and Fuel | Tagged: biofuel, biotechnology, corn ethanol, David Tilman, food vs. fuel, MoveOn.org, rainforest | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 7, 2008 by mattatbio
Interested in alternative energy sources? BIO’s World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, on April 27-30 in Chicago, IL, is the forum where experts from around the globe come together to discuss this topic, with major themes around sustainability and climate change. But let’s not stop there. If industrial and environmental biotechnology is your business — [...]
Filed under: Biofuel Technology, Climate Change, meetings | Tagged: biofuels, biotechnology, Climate Change, conference, energy crops, microalgae, sustainability | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 14, 2008 by mattatbio
The journal Science published two papers:
Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land Use Change
Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
in their online, early publication ScienceXpress that suggest that the production and use of biofuels may be worse for climate change than gasoline. The study and papers argue that cultivating [...]
Filed under: Biofuel Technology, Greenhouse Gas Emission | Tagged: biofuels, biotechnology, cellulosic, ethanol, Science papers | 4 Comments »
