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 Stories About: biofuels AND books AND energy
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Toxic optimists vs. plaid shirts
Delusional Beltway optimism about energy |
Michael Tobis |
12 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A couple of weeks ago, I attended a seminar hosted by several departments at the University of Texas on the topic of 'peak oil.' The occasion was the visit of David Sundalow of the Brookings Institution, who is hawking his new book Freedom from Oil. This was mutually convenient for him and the university, which is trying to carve out a position as an optimistic, rolled-up-sleeves, can-do problem-solver in the fields of energy and water. I have no objection to that ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, books, cars, climate, energy, ethanol, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Free e-book on biofuels and water
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JMG |
16 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I know -- let's use all our food and drinking water to make SUV fuel! |
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| Topics: biofuels, books, energy (all these topics) |
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Like hearing a Rolling Stones number during a chastity belt ad
New book praising biofuels has an unexpected author |
JMG |
20 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| There are combinations that are just too weird: chocolate cake and grape juice (to steal from an old Dick Van Dyke show), or hearing the Rolling Stones' music used to market chastity belts and abstinence pledges. Or like seeing the Worldwatch Institute's name on a book praising biofuels ... the very fuels Les Brown, WWI's founder, is crusading against. The gist of the book seems to be, 'We need a completely different kind of biofuels than we have or are likely to ever see, bu ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, books, energy (all these topics) |
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BioWillie pens a biodiesel book
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Sarah van Schagen |
19 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Willie Nelson is talking about biodiesel again. This time in book form, and the result is On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm. The 90-some-page pocket-size book (it's like a li'l Willie you can carry with you everywhere!) is divided into two parts: the past (or the history of petroleum) and the future (in Willie's world, that's biodiesel). Thankfully there's also an afterword to talk about the other future ... you know, wind and ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, books, celebrity, energy, green living, oil (all these topics) |
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