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Election '08: Real alternatives for real food? Questions for Obama and Clinton from a Wisconsin farmer	Guest author	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, Barack Obama, biofuels, elections, food, health, Hillary Clinton, local food, politics, presidential race 08, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Paging Vinod Khosla ... Billionaire Branson regrets mindless biofuel support	Tom Philpott	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, celebrity, energy, investing, Richard Branson (all these topics)

ILSR, spinning like a top	JMG	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

Biofuels and the fertilizer problem Can a 'renewable fuel' rely on mining a finite resource?	Tom Philpott	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, industrial ag, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Biofuels: good for agrochemical/GMO biz GMO giant Monsanto wows Wall Street, consolidates its grip on South America	Tom Philpott	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Argentina, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, business, energy, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Letter Drip Scientists write to Bush and Pelosi asking for biofuel-policy reform		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:35 PM on 08 Feb 2008 In light of recent studies showing that biofuel production ain't good for the environment, 10 prominent ecologists and biologists have written to President Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that the U.S. reform its biofuel-boosting policies. Seeing as the Bush administration has a track record of being very responsive to scientists' entreaties, we have no doubt that the mas ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, George Bush, Nancy Pelosi, news, politics (all these topics)

Against Ethanol Odds Biofuels not helpful in climate-change fight, new studies say		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:27 AM on 08 Feb 2008 Photo: doskophoto Two new studies published in the journal Science conclude that growing and burning biofuels actually increases net greenhouse-gas emissions and exacerbates climate change. The new research questions the assumptions of earlier studies, making sure to incorporate the effects of land-use changes into emissions calculations. When land-use changes are taken into accou ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Biofuels bombshell Researchers find corn ethanol, switchgrass could worsen global warming	Frank O'Donnell	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, climate, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

Next market bubble: farmland! Thanks to the ethanol boom, big investors are plowing cash into corn country	Tom Philpott	07 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, economy, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

USDA food-safety czar: Ethanol waste causes tainted beef -- and that's okay Let cows eat vaccines along with distillers grains	Tom Philpott	28 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Department of Agriculture, energy, ethanol, food (all these topics)

Biomass, part III The most critical assumption on cellulosic biofuels: yields	Vinod Khosla	25 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, ethanol (all these topics)

Stock analysts v. venture capitalists Tom Konrad on cellulosic electricity	Guest author	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, business, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, renewable energy (all these topics)

Biomass, part II Better agronomy for energy crops	Vinod Khosla	24 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, food (all these topics)

Biomass, part I Where will biofuels and biomass feedstocks come from?	Vinod Khosla	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

Plowing up the Amazon Scientist says biofuel boom endangers world's largest rainforest	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, rainforests (all these topics)

Why Vinod Khosla is very wrong A pragmatic view of cellulosic biofuels	Joseph Romm	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, cellulosic ethanol, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Cellulosic ethanol: It might be a bust Thus spake Chairman Peterson of the House Ag Committee	Tom Philpott	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol (all these topics)

Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part III Hybrids and biofuels: The road ahead	Vinod Khosla	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hybrids (all these topics)

A Tough Row to Hoe E.U. says it will be mindful of sustainability in boosting biofuels		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:06 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Realizing that biofuel production can have negative social and environmental consequences, the European Commission says it will propose "strict conditions that biofuels used in the European market are produced in a sustainable way" instead of barreling ahead willy-nilly (because really, that would be crazy). The commission will announce specific climate-change mitiga ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, European Union, news (all these topics)

BigThink Smart people talk about serious questions	David Roberts	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, politics, websites (all these topics)

Pragmatists v. environmentalists, part I Prius: Green or greenwash?	Vinod Khosla	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, cars, electric vehicles, energy, ethanol, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

So Cellulose, Yet So Far Study touts environmental benefits of switchgrass-derived biofuel		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:11 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Fast-growing switchgrass makes for a super-duper biofuel, says new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The five-year study of 10 Midwest farms concluded that switchgrass-derived biofuel can produce more than five times the energy consumed in manufacturing it, and emits 94 percent less greenhouse-gas emissions than gasoline. "This ...
Topics: biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Monsanto counts its cash Seed-and-chemical giant sees its profit triple	Tom Philpott	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, ethanol, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

A negative-carbon corn ethanol plant? Cogeneration and ethanol production	Joseph Romm	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, climate, cogeneration, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

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