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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Life Is Like a Fuel Tank of Chocolates British duo's carbon-negative road trip fueled by chocolate		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 21 Dec 2007 This weekend, while you're finishing up the last of the chocolates in your advent calendar -- oh admit it, you ate them all already -- Britons Andy Pag and John Grimshaw will be rolling to the end of a chocolate-fueled road trip. The duo claim that their trip from Poole, England through the Sahara desert to Timbuktu, Mali, will be the world's first carbon-negative ...
Topics: biofuels, carbon neutral, climate, energy, innovation, news (all these topics)

Don't tell Canis!	JMG	20 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This is one of those stories where you don't know whether to be hopeful or depressed after reading it. Like drug addicts who will try snorting every powder in the house, we seem to be willing to subject any substance on the planet to the real acid test of our age: Will it help us keep carburbia going?
Topics: innovation, scientific research, biofuels, energy (all these topics)

The genius behind better biofuel a man with a microbe on mission	Maywa Montenegro	19 Aug 2007	Gristmill
At 29, David Berry MD, a PhD, and now, title as Young Innovator of the Year in MIT's Tech Review magazine. So what makes Berry so hot? He's the brains behind LS9, the California-based company working on "renewable petroleum."Berry's goal was nothing less than "to develop a novel and far-reaching solution to the energy problem." In collaboration with genomics researcher George Church of Harvard Medical School and plant biologist Chris Some ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, innovation (all these topics)

15 Green Cars		13 Aug 2007	Grist Feature
The greenest way to get around? On your own two feet, of course, or on a bicycle, unicycle, skateboard, or public transit. But if you still find yourself in need of a car, these are some of the best green options on the market. If we zoomed right past your favorite eco-friendly auto, tell us in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Courtesy of Toyota via Wieck Toyota Prius The best-selling Prius is synonymous with "hybrid" in many minds, and with ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids, innovation, lists, Prius (all these topics)

Vehicle of change The Big Green Bus rides again	Sarah van Schagen	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Witness the Big Green Bus. Hard to miss, even amid the glaring sun and smog at Bonnaroo. I happened upon the crew of Dartmouth students at the festival last year and got just a few minutes to chat with them. This year, I sought them out on the festival grounds and then met up with them again when they rolled into Seattle last weekend.During their 12,000-mile trek this summer, the Big Green Busriders are stopping at various events and landmarks ranging from a Doobie ...
Topics: biofuels, education, energy, green living, innovation, placemaking, tech (all these topics)

LS9 promises 'renewable petroleum' New company says it can make better, cheaper biofuels	David Roberts	30 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Picture a liquid fuel that is derived from the same feedstocks as cellulosic ethanol (switchgrass, sugar cane, corn stover) but contains 50% more energetic content and is made via a process that uses 65% less energy. Unlike cellulosic ethanol, this fuel can be distributed via existing oil pipelines rather than gas-hogging trucks and trains, dispensed through existing gas stations rather than specialized pumps, and used in existing engines rather than modified " ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, GMOs, innovation (all these topics)

Sushi powered Japan experiments with seaweed as biofuel	Jerome Woody	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
As birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, Japan is one of the pioneering countries in climate change policy and research. In 1990, Japan pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 6 percent by 2012. One of their proposed stratagems for meeting this goal is to replace the 132 million gallons of gasoline that Japan car drivers use with a biofuel option. Domestic biofuel production has always been difficult in land-lacking Japan, which in the past had to consider importing bi ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, innovation, Japan (all these topics)

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