Two contrasting news pieces regarding Brazilian biofuel production add further confusion as to how sustainable it really is. On one hand, the adjunct secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), Laksmi Puri...
We’ve been writing about algae fuel for over a year here at Energy Refuge, so we were pleased to read this report saying that this fledgling industry has been expanding at a steady pace. The claim is based on the number of participants at the...
I’ve been keeping my thermostat low. 63 degrees low while I am at work and in the evenings. I am getting used to it. But I really haven’t been living at 63 since there has been enough sunlight during the day to keep my house at around...
The Guardian newspaper ran a profile of a fascinating woman living in South London that I thought was well worth clipping. 68-year-old Joan Pick hasn’t flown since 1971, hasn’t driven a car since 1973, she only eats raw vegetarian food...
The first of a three-part report produced by researchers at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research concerning key design issues of proposed ‘cap-and-trade‘ programs that are under consideration in the United...
