Wednesday-Night

In Depth:The Mackenzie Valley pipeline ; Reaction to the Mackenzie Gas Report
The Munk Debate 2009 on climate change ; ForumMissisquoi.com
Colère à Environnement Canada
(La Presse) Dans l’optique de contrôler davantage le message public, le gouvernement Harper a implanté un «protocole de relations avec les médias» sans précédent dans le domaine climatique: il interdit aux scientifiques de […]

Wind energy and other posts on Clean energy ; A development strategy for Québec’s environmental and green technology industry
Israel Talks Solar With Egypt, Biofuel With Jordan
(Reuters/Planet Ark) Israel has started talks with Egypt about possibly establishing a joint solar project in Egypt’s Sinai Desert, Industry and Trade Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said on Thursday. Also […]

More on oil and Wednesday-night.com Oil Notes

For several years, Wednesday Nights have witnessed often passionate discussions on the validity of M. King Hubbert’s prediction of the early depletion of (easily accessible - ‘cheap’) fossil fuels. With current rising oil prices, Hubbert’s Peak has become a familiar term far beyond the circles of energy experts. […]

More on Biofuels and clean energy
Biofuel farms fall flat
Plantations dedicated to growing jatropha, a biofuel component said to be resistant to drought and pests, have contributed to the poverty of thousands of farmers in India and Tanzania, according to this report. The Independent (London) (2/15)
7 April 2009
Tiny super-plant can clean up animal […]

More and Better: World Summit on Food Security 16-18 November 2009
IISD Daily Reports
Feeding the Future - IPS Special Report
More than 1 billion people suffer hunger today, according to the UN. A crucial part of this complex problem is food production and distribution. Is it possible to increase food production in an environmentally and socially sustainable […]

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil.
Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
More on Biofuels
Rethinking Green: Fuel for debate
Although ethanol appears to emit, by some measures, somewhat fewer greenhouse gases when burned in your vehicle, the intensity of energy required to produce some of ethanol’s key feedstocks, and its additional land-use […]

Oil Companies Loath to Follow Obama’s Green Lead Surprise!
The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation. But the world’s oil giants are not convinced that it will work. Even as Washington goes into a frenzy […]

Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity)
We are often asked what is Biodiversity and why is it important. The ‘Father of Biodiversity’, E.O. Wilson, gives a wonderfully succinct answer to the second part of the question in his 2006 Apocalypse Now first published in The New Republic.
Scientists estimate that, if habitat-conversion and other destructive human activities continue […]

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More on Biofuels and Agriculture & Food - World Hunger
Uprising Against the Ethanol Mandate
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive regulations requiring the oil industry to blend ever-increasing amounts of ethanol into gasoline.
3 July
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant […]