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 Stories About: biofuels AND business AND energy AND Seattle
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Ten strikes and still not out
Biofuels: not cost-effective or lucrative for climate change or business |
biodiversivist |
03 Sep 2008 |
Gristmill |
| According to this article in Mongabay, a study from a British think tank is calling for an end to subsidies for biofuels based on -- not biodiversity loss and high food prices -- cost effectiveness. The economics is startling -- if developed countries spent the same amount of money on preventing deforestation and the destruction of peatlands as they do on biofuel subsidies (US $15 billion), this would halve the total costs of tackling climate change. In addition to t ... |
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| Topics: Seattle, energy subsidies, business, ethanol, biofuels, energy (all these topics) |
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Dirty hippies at it again
Another agrofuel protest hits City Hall |
biodiversivist |
21 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Candace Heckman, writing for the Seattle P-I Big Blog, put up a brief post about the protest yesterday by Duff Badgley and his rag-tag group against local biodiesel-refiner Imperium Renewables. Imperium is getting downright defensive: Imperium spokesman John Williams said this afternoon that the company is actively looking at 'feedstocks' other than palm oil, and that for the next year-and-a-half, the City of Seattle would not be buying biodiesel made from palm. ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, business, energy, Seattle (all these topics) |
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The Doctor Is in ... Your Tank
An interview with Seattle biodiesel distributor Dan Freeman |
Yolanda Crous |
07 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Dan Freeman. As a kid, Dan Freeman experimented with using alcohol to run lawnmowers and minibikes. (Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for that parent-son conversation.) These days, he runs Dr. Dan's Alternative Fuel Werks, a Seattle-based biodiesel retail and distribution company with customers ranging from school districts to organic farmers to concerned individuals who want ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, business, cars, energy, interview, placemaking, Seattle, Washington (all these topics) |
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