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  • Dirty oil's direct land change impact

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    Photograph by Peter Essick for National Geographic magazine.Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.So intones an article in this month's issue of National Geographic magazine titled "The Canadian Oil Boom: Scraping Bottom." Its opening [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 9:07pm EDT

  • Bias in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard

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    California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) is a good initiative but it is flawed in its current form. Consider:Ethanol is an alcohol with a fairly simple, universal formula regardless of how it is made. The great thing about all ethanol is that it is miscible in gasoline, oxygenates gasoline so' [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 10:58am EDT

  • Join ACORE's Biomass Coordinating Council

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    The Biomass Coordinating Council of the American Council of Renewable Energy is an ever-present resource and meeting place for biomass professionals - or anyone who wishes to be engaged in the issues at the heart of emerging biomass renewable energy industries. At the helm of the council is the renowned [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2009, 10:44am EDT

  • Economic Impacts of Biofuel Development

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    The impact of biofuel development should be significant to the economy of any nation that successfully deploys it. By becoming more energy self-sufficient, the balance of trade of otherwise energy-dependent nations should improve dramatically - as it has in Brazil.However, the impact on the economy of the region producing the [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2009, 10:44pm EDT

  • Everyone Hates Ethanol?

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    It is a sad day when even the Wall Street Journal takes a page from the petroleum industry playbook and chop blocks the only national defense that makes a dent in their monopoly on supplying fuel to Americans (accounting for less than 5% of transportation fuels sold here). Offensive foul [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2009, 9:04pm EDT

  • "FUEL" - an interview with Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell

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    In January 2008, Josh Tickell screened his new documentary “Fields of Fuel” at the Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews (see trailer here). It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. After a full year of more development, it has recently been released to a few theaters in the L.A. [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 1:28pm EST

  • "Fuel" is a Galvanizing Vehicle

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    "Fuel" is a film for our time - and also winner of the 2008 Sundance Audience Award for Best Documentary (see trailer here). It may help America wake up to the inexorable consequences of its fossil fuel addiction the way that "An Inconvenient Truth" did to global warming."Fuel" is the [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 6:27pm EST

  • Perspectives on Sustainability Standards for Biofuel Production

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    This article is a response to a call for comments on Version Zero of the draft Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Biofuels written by the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels after extensive, multi-stakeholder, international collaboration. A running public dialog on these standards is available online at the Bioenergy Wiki.We need change [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2009, 7:32pm EST

  • The Impact on Renewable Energy from Obama's Nominations

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    "Who ARE those guys?"The bad news is that the economic crisis threatens to suspend deployment of renewable energy facilities. Coupled with the meteoric drop in fossil fuel prices - one of the key drivers for developing alternative fuels - and it would not be surprising to see a new administration [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 2:11pm EST

  • Galvanizing Congress to move renewable energy forward

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    On December 5th, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) hosted its annual Phase II meeting in Washington D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives Cannon Caucus Room. Its theme this year was "The Next Presidency and Congress." Distinguished speakers addressed the state of renewable energy policy today, presented a [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 11:02am EST
    by C. Scott Miller

  • Canada's biofuels promise

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    An article giving an overview of Canada's bioenergy potential has been published on the Renewable Energy World.com website. The author, Douglas Bradley, is president of the Canadian Bioenergy Association (CANBIO) a national, industry-driven, non-profit organization supporting promotion and use of bioenergy.If possessing sustainable quantities of biomass alone is the measure' [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2008, 10:43pm EDT

  • Comments on Friedman's "Hot, Flat, and Crowded"

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    Thomas Friedman has a terrific platform from which to interview energy experts globally, write opinion pieces that are distributed through the New York Times, and participate in the production of cable television documentaries. Occasionally he pumps out a book that coalesces all of his research and synthesizes his prescriptions for [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 12:55pm EDT

  • Pulp & Paper Industry: The "bird's nest" of bioenergy?

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    One prominent feature of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) is its renewable fuel standard that sets the trajectory for satisfying America's newfound thirst for alternative fuels. 36 billion gallons per year production by the year 2022. Considering that the U.S.' current annual production of biofuels is about [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2008, 7:49pm EDT

  • The Case for Bioenergy

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    I am frequently asked why we should pursue the production of biofuels and biopower when we could substitute other seemingly simpler and "cleaner" alternatives - like wind and solar - that don't require such complicated biomass logistics. A recent article I found on the European-based Biopact Blog supplies a partial [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 8:38pm EDT

  • BlueFire Ethanol to build in California

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    BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. received a conditional use permit from the County of Los Angeles, Department of Regional Planning, for the operation of a new biorefinery it will build on a 10 acre lot near a Lancaster, CA landfill. For anyone aware of the slow rate of permitting new facilities [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 5:00pm EDT

  • INEOS Bio to license syngas fermentation technology

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    INEOS Group Holdings PLC, one of the three largest chemical conglomerates in the world, has announced the July 1, 2008 formation of a new company, INEOS Bio, whose initial focus will be the commercialization of what they call "the World’s leading second generation bioethanol technology process" to serve the global [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2008, 11:37pm EDT

  • The "Bridge Builder" of biomass conversion

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    Last night it was my privilege to attend a tribute to a decorated Marine who is an officer, a gentleman, and a war hero. He is also a towering luminary of the Biomass Conversion industry - who just happens to have reached the tender age of eighty. Bill Holmberg is [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 6:45pm EDT

  • Roadmap for bioenergy & biobased products in the U.S.

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    At last year's Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy I met Dr. Larry Walker for the first time. I had heard of him because one of his responsibilities is managing the prestigious Sun Grant Initiative budget for the Northeast Region at Cornell University. It wasn't until I had [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 12:30pm EDT

  • Comments on the California Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan

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    The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has just released its Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan in accord with its responsibilities for implementing AB32 - the Global Warming Solutions Act. Its objective is to lay the foundation for an enforceable approach to reduce California's anticipated greenhouse gas emissions for the year [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2008, 3:10pm EDT

  • CA Draft Scoping Plan comment: Challenge the Status Quo

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    This is one of a series of comments submitted to the California Air Resources Board for their draft version of the California Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan. Other BIOenergy BlogRing comments are linked here: • Challenge the Status Quo • Recycling and Waste • Sustainable Forests----------------Achieving the goals of this [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2008, 9:51am EDT

  • Converting Smoke into Energy using Algae

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    Solena Group - an innovative international company whose mission is "committed to combating climate change by promoting renewable bio-energy to replace fossil fuel" - has projects deployed or under development for using plasma arc technology to cleanly gasify feedstock into syngas. Teamed with Rentech Technologies, they can convert the syngas [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2008, 10:34am EDT

  • New Planet Energy to assume Florida Ethanol Project

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    A number of announcements have been made in the within the last month involving two of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) EPAct 932 grant winners.First, on May 8th, Iogen announced that it was not going to build its first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Idaho after all - [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2008, 11:31am EDT

  • May 2008 Digest

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    Sustainability: The New Frontier of Renewable EnergyTo shift the energy paradigm from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy will require changes that will impact every tier of society and every acre of the environment. It is clear that skeptics from a broad array of stakeholders will earnestly try to [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2008, 9:21pm EDT
    by C. Scott Miller

  • Coskata to build demonstration plant near Pittsburgh

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    Coskata announced today that they are building a demonstration-sized (40,000 gallon per year) cellulosic ethanol plant. This is significant because it could represent the first scale-up of a syngas-fermentation (SF) pilot technology in the world.The other possible scale-up of this advanced technology is the BRI process that is a party [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2008, 10:41am EDT

  • Responses to Time's unbalanced biofuels bashing

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    The April 7th issue of Time Magazine features a cover story that attacks the biofuels industry in general and corn ethanol in particular. I have written about irresponsible media attacks before (i.e., Rolling Stone Magazine's The Ethanol Scam) and when the Science magazine "Land Use Change" research article started being [...]
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    Posted: April 02, 2008, 8:59pm EDT

  • WIREC Side Events: Communicating the Truth about BioEnergy

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    The urgent need to clearly communicate with all stakeholders the benefits and challenges of moving forward with bioenergy technology solutions to climate change, fossil fuel dependence, and environmental distress has been clearly evident in the national media in the last few weeks.Price BIOstock Services in conjunction with the National Wildlife [...]
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    Posted: February 29, 2008, 2:13pm EST

  • Coskata and GM partner to advance syngas to ethanol technology

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    Congratulations are due to venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, President Bill Roe of Coskata, and General Motors President Rick Wagoner on their announced partnership to advance the vested interest GM has made in the production of cellulosic ethanol. While focusing much of their attention on building advanced E-Flex technology to reduce [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2008, 1:33pm EST

  • Bioenergy's "Top Five" List.

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    From a speech delivered at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington DC on November 28, 2007.Besides writing blogs, I am a Communications Director* of the Biomass Coordinating Council (BCC) of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). ACORE is a Washington-based advocacy association that promotes all renewable energy forms. The [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 3:00pm EST

  • #1 Bioenergy Can... Convert Solar Energy into Liquid Fuel

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    Bioenergy is the ONLY renewable technology that can convert solar energy into LIQUID fuel.If we expect to substitute renewable energy for fossil fuel energy, we are going to have to tackle the challenge of liquid fuels - how do we replace our dependence on oil, diesel, and gasoline with functionally [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 2:00pm EST

  • #2 Bioenergy Can... Reduce Greenhouse Gases

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    What are the capabilities of bioenergy technologies that make them unique as a means of reducing greenhouse gases? Bioenergy comes from the processing of biomass. Biomass "refers to living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production. Most commonly, biomass refers to plant [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 1:18pm EST

  • #3 Bioenergy Can... Remediate Ecological Disasters

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    There are biomass waste streams throughout the world that could provide the feedstock for future biomass conversion to biofuels. These waste streams are creating some of the most acute environmental problems afflicting society - • Excess biomass in forests – forest density that is 4 to 10 times historic norms [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2007, 12:56pm EST

  • #4 Bioenergy Can... Revive Depressed Economies

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    Bioenergy can revive depressed economies - local, national, and worldwide.Depressed economies need private investment in healthy industries to build lasting employment. Fossil energy - with all its societal costs and impact on the environment - is no longer viewed as "cheap." It is seen as an addiction - a wedge [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2007, 11:55am EST

  • #5 Bioenergy Can... Expand Energy Freedom of Choice

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    Bioenergy provides the only renewable LIQUID fuels we will see at the pump in our lifetimes.The United States is a nation that not only preaches self-reliance, but also freedom of choice. We vote at the election booth every couple of years and we promote the global spread of this “self-evident” [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2007, 10:00am EST

  • Range Fuels cellulosic ethanol plant groundbreaking

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    On November 6th, 2007 a who's who of federal and state public servants, alternative energy business representatives, and technologists from all of the country came to the tiny rural town of Soperton, Georgia to participate in the groundbreaking of the country's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility. It was a milestone [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2007, 2:54pm EST

  • Woody Biomass: Feedstock for BioEnergy

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    This article contains the text and some images from the second half of a speech I presented at the Energy from Biomass and Waste conference in Pittsburgh, PA on September 27. It follows from the first half of the presentation titled Woody Biomass: Fuel for Wildfires which shows recent increased [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2007, 9:56pm EDT

  • August 2007 Digest

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    Wildfires should top list of greenhouse gas catastrophes If we truly care about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions we need to evaluate, plan, and implement solutions to the growth of record-breaking wildfires over the past decade - particularly in New Mexico, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, and California. According to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici during [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2007, 1:33am EDT

  • L.A. Times editorial against ethanol

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    Following the lead of the Rolling Stone diatribe against ethanol (see my response to The Ethanol Scam), the Los Angeles Times decided to devote their full August 20th editorial to an attack titled Drunk on ethanol. Such slanted media lobbying to the general public seems misplaced to me when it [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2007, 11:53am EDT

  • A four-star idea for rating biofuels

    Any greenhouse gas cap and trade system for ethanol and other biofuels will be dependent upon an accurate assessment of its carbon footprint - not only the amount of carbon emitted to the atmosphere during usage but also the the carbon lifecycle of the fuel's production. If coal is the [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2007, 10:28am EDT

  • LS9 - Using synthetic biology to produce renewable petroleum

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    Most of the technologies explored on this blog involve the production of cellulosic ethanol using biochemical or thermochemical processes. But ethanol has its detractors, and the processes that produce cellulosic ethanol can involve the use of water and the expense of energy to produce heat. What emerging technology and renewable [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2007, 11:15pm EDT

  • Motivating U.S. energy growth with "carrots" and "sticks"

    Before breaking for summer the U.S. 110th Congress made strides on defining energy policies through passage of the 2007 Farm Bill (July 27th) and Energy Bills (August 4th). Analysis of these measures shows how the House seeks to achieve its goals by luring development with the "carrots" of incentives while [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2007, 1:54pm EDT

  • Biopact: August 2007 Digest

    Biopact Blog writes many stories that are relevant to the study of BIOstock, BIOconversion, BIOoutput, and BIOwaste. Rather than summarize and reprint excerpts from this excellent source of information, a breakdown of each month's most relevant titles is provided in one updated article... BIOstock... • Dynamotive and Mitsubishi Corporation sign cooperation agreement • [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2007, 9:46pm EDT

  • Why "Rolling Stone" gathers no moss

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    "Because it generates heat, not light." The current issue of Rolling Stone carries a feature article referenced on the cover as The Ethanol Scam and titled as "Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles" written by Jeff Goodell. Putting on my "Jeff Greenfield" hat temporarily, I believe [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2007, 10:23am EDT

  • July 2007 Digest

    Conversion Technologies Coast-to-Coast It may be the heart of the summer to most people but national enthusiasm for emerging energy technologies is not taking a vacation. In early July, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a call on his Florida counterpart, Governor Charles Crist calling him "a new action hero" for taking [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2007, 11:17pm EDT

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    Posted: July 17, 2007, 2:51pm EDT

  • The Biorefinery Concept Today

    The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that world biofuel output will double between 2006 to 2012. That is the primary finding from its recently published Medium-Term Oil Market Report. According to an article from Biopact based on the report findings: Technology for significant production of second generation biofuels based on lignocellulosic feedstocks [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2007, 11:59am EDT

  • Biopact: July 2007 Digest

    Biopact Blog writes many stories that are relevant to the study of BIOstock, BIOconversion, BIOoutput, and BIOwaste. Rather than summarize and reprint excerpts from this excellent source of information, a breakdown of each month's most relevant titles is provided in one updated article... BIOstock... • New biodiversity data access portal launched • Revolution [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2007, 7:44pm EDT

  • June 2007 Digest

    Vision plus Collaboration Form a Sustainable Industry "Renewable Energy promotes world peace." Those are the words of BBI International CEO Mike Bryan as he opened the Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW) conference in St. Louis last week. What followed was two days spent assimilating the industry's breathtaking advances this year while inspiring multi-sector [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2007, 2:45am EDT

  • Fuel Ethanol Workshop promotes vision and collaboration

    The 2007 Fuel Ethanol Workshop was informative, thought provoking, and inspirational. Its scope was very broad. While enumerating the many benefits of a robust renewable energy paradigm, it also sought to promote greater collaboration between capitalism and environmentalism. It sought to stretch the range of feedstock beyond corn to cellulosic [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2007, 2:21am EDT

  • U.S. D.O.E. funds 3 Bioenergy Research Centers

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    Posted: June 26, 2007, 7:25am EDT

  • Diversa and Celunol merge diversified industrial enzyme portfolios

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    Posted: June 21, 2007, 12:11pm EDT

  • U.S. Senate - "Make 25x'25 happen!"

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    Posted: June 15, 2007, 7:12pm EDT

  • Biopact: June 2007 Digest

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    Posted: June 01, 2007, 1:32pm EDT

  • May 2007 Digest

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    Posted: May 30, 2007, 8:47pm EDT

  • U.S. D.O.E./E.I.A. International Energy Outlook 2007

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    Posted: May 21, 2007, 11:36pm EDT

  • IPCC 4th Assessment: Steps to mitigate climate change

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    Posted: May 05, 2007, 10:31am EDT

  • U.S. State Dept. to host 2008 Int'l Renewable Energy Conference

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    Posted: May 04, 2007, 12:58am EDT

  • Molecular visualization of the bioconversion process

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    Posted: May 02, 2007, 6:48am EDT

  • Biopact: May 2007 Digest

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    Posted: May 01, 2007, 11:25pm EDT

  • April 2007 Digest

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    Posted: April 30, 2007, 7:49am EDT
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