There have been some blips in the blogosphere regarding the Open Source AT discussion. Jeff's ruminations at sustainablog are featured on this week's Carnival of the Green. Jamais Cascio at World Changing has written an excellent and [...]

This post takes its name from an article in the Guardian written by columnist George Monbiot. The columnist illustrates this woeful futility by taking a similar stance to my own against biofuels. Monbiot, citing a Friends of the Earth report, explains that the European quest for a fossil fuel [...]

In a recent article in Grist magazine, author Kelly Hearn describes the South American (esp. Brazilian) effort to create an "ethanol empire". In the wake of the environmentalist reverie over the utopian vision of emissions neutral automobiles, I wonder if anyone has actually paused to imagine what an ethanol [...]