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[Search RSS | FindArticles] A Colorado perspective: the new energy economy | UCLA Journal of ...: A plan was put in place to create jobs and develop businesses, boost rural economies, leverage unique energy assets, increase energy efficiency and conservation, lead by example, and promote the responsible development of fossil fuel resources. In the two years since the governor took office, major progress has been made on all of these fronts and the underlying tenants of the New Energy Economy--creating jobs and spurring fiscal growth while producing cleaner energy--remains a reality in Colorado, even in the midst of a national economic crisis.

[National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition] National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition » Archive » Weekly ...: Mark Cochran, Associate Vice President for Agriculture Research for the University of Arkansas discussed what he sees as the importance of corporate initiatives for the codification and adoption of sustainability metrics in the commercial and agricultural sectors of the global economy.  He cited as examples The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, Leonardo Academy’s efforts to create a Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard, the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops, and Wal-Mart’s policies on conservation and sustainability in the products it chooses to sell at its stores.  Cochran described universities as having a supporting role in formulating metrics, evaluating best practices, and developing links to big retailers for local producers.

[SAC News And Events] 0907: Adapting To Paris - SAC (Scottish Agricultural College): An earlier version of the report, by Professor Adger, focusing on adaptation alone, was never declassified, as the USA (under the previous administration) opposed the implication that some level of climate change was inevitable.  However the current US representatives were very positive, with the only contentious area being a section on biofuels. 

[IISD Linkages] Ramsar COP10 Summary and Analysis - 28 October - 4 November 2008 ...: Regarding a paragraph on engaging the private sector on establishing and/or strengthening corporate social responsibility programmes, and impacts of extractive industries on biodiversity and indigenous peoples and other local communities, the US, supported by New Zealand and Australia, requested inserting language on ensuring accordance with applicable national legislation, and deleting bracketed text on ensuring benefits arising from extractive industrial activities are fairly and equitably shared. With this and other minor amendments, this resolution was adopted.

[Council for Agricultural Science and Technology - News Releases] CAST: Producing Cellulosic Biomass for Biofuels, to coincide with two major meetings held in the United States this week that focus on this topic: The World Food Prize Symposium on “Biofuels and Biofoods: The Global Challenges of Emerging Technologies” and the Brookings Institute Opportunity '08 “Iowa Forum on Energy and National Security.”

[Biotechnology for Biofuels - Latest Articles] Biotechnology for Biofuels | Full text | The commercial ...: This paper focuses on the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks in Europe, and investigates the factors that will determine its eventual cost of production and commercial viability. The hypothesis is that if lignocellulosic ethanol (LE) is to be produced commercially at scale then the eventual cost of production will be determined not only by the performance of the conversion process but by the performance of the entire supply-chain from feedstock production to consumption.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Chairman Peterson: “We Should ...: “Richard Warburton, head of Agribusiness at Bidwells, said it was impossible to know yet whether the agricultural market was facing a structural or a cyclical change. But he warned that, even if it were cyclical, ”˜we are up against a long cycle of rising prices’”.

[frankhagan.com] frankhagan.com » Jetta TDI - Clean Burning Diesel and Biodiesel ...: Oil at $35 a barrel makes both ethanol and biodiesel a losing proposition, no matter the farm price. There is a point at which a farmer cannot produce the product and make a profit, and the market cycle, always a hard taskmaster, can be even more vicious in a three-way competition.

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Farm Bill in Focus: “The environmental commissioner, Stavros Dimas, said he had based his decision squarely on scientific studies suggesting that long-term uncertainties and risks remain in planting the so-called Bt corn. But when the full European Commission takes up the matter in the next couple of months, commissioners will have to decide what mix of science, politics and trade to apply.

[TreeHugger] Syntec Biofuel: Closer to Fuel from Waste : TreeHugger: Syntec's technology uses any renewable waste biomass such as hard or soft wood, sawdust or bark, organic waste, agricultural waste (including sugar cane bagasse and corn stover), and switch-grass to produce syngas. What this blog's author and most people seem to miss is a basic difference between biodiesel (produced through transestrification methods) using water to clarify and separate it and alcohols which are produced by A) inefficient batch fermentation or B) .

[David Strahan | Articles] David Strahan | Articles - Interview with Lord Oxburgh: His choice of year for a supply crunch is nicely in the middle of the above range and reflects his very British attitiude … “I don’t think we need face a way of life that is very different from that which we have at present …

[The Energy Blog] The Energy Blog: Syntec Cellulosic Ethanol Sets Price Record: Shortly after my last visit in early 2006 the company was taken over by Michael Jackson (a minority shareholder up to that time) who by skillful legal maneuvering (he is a lawyer) and his personal greed forced the company very quickly into bankruptcy and then bought the assets of the company from bankruptcy trustee via Montilla Capital Inc. In my opinion the trustee’s appraiser did undervalue the Syntec’s assets and of course there was no second professional opinion as to real value of the company.

[Peter Gallagher] The old weblog: , Australia and New Zealand the same market access deal on goods that the EC offers the Mediterranean Association countries on condition that they extended the same terms ‘spoke-to-spoke’, would this remove opposition to comprehensive free trade among Australia, NZ and

[The Maui Hunter Real Estate Blog] Real Estate Blog - Moving to Maui Hawaii - Haiku Relocation ...: Haiku is mostly an agricultural area, with many small and large farms, and 2 acre AG subdivisions. Along the north coast of Maui are some spectacular homes and lots that appeal to the windsurfing crowd.

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