October 8th, 2019 | by The Beam
Fernando Laposse is a Mexican designer who is drawing most of his inspiration from Mexico, its people, its craft, and their relationship to the natural world. We talked with Fernando about the role of design in raising awareness towards sustainable issues and he introduced us to one of its latest project: Totomoxtle, which showcases the range of species of native corn that exist in Mexico
May 22nd, 2017 | by James Ayre
Global production of the 4 most important staple crops in the world — maize/corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans — will be reduced by around 23% by the 2050s as a result of worsening anthropogenic climate change, according to new research published in the journal Economics of Disasters and Climate Change
January 18th, 2013 | by Joshua S Hill
Editor’s Update: I’ve added an extensive reader comment to bottom of this post. “The energy source for biofuels is the [&hellip
August 29th, 2012 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration
Editor’s note: solar PV and wind energy use a ton less water than their electricity counterparts (nuclear, coal, oil, [&hellip
August 22nd, 2012 | by Joshua S Hill
Presented at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists have shown that a new process [&hellip
August 20th, 2011 | by Tina Casey
In a twist on the old set a thief to catch a thief ploy, researchers at Michigan Technological University have found that a copper-loving bacteria can help corn suck copper contamination out of soil. The discovery could help clean up highly contaminated abandoned mining sites that have resisted other forms of "green" remediation
October 14th, 2010 | by Mridul Chadha
United States’ Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has increased the percentage of ethanol blending optional for cars and light-weight trucks made in or [&hellip
July 21st, 2009 | by Jeff Kart
You’d think this would be a “Buy American” type of issue. Growth Energy, an ethanol industry trade group, wants to [&hellip
May 8th, 2009 | by Jeff Kart
There’s a kernel of good to this story, if you care about climate change and high food prices. Sure, ethanol [&hellip
March 1st, 2009 | by Matthew Phelan
Here comes more dour empirical data. Ongoing deforestation in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia has been further linked [&hellip
February 19th, 2009 | by Tina Casey
Corn is beginning to seem more and more like the has-been-that-never-was of the biofuel feedstock scene. An inedible, weedy-looking plant [&hellip
February 4th, 2009 | by Jeff Kart
Cellulosic ethanol has been hailed as the next frontier in renewable fuels. After all, most ethanol in the U.S. comes [&hellip
September 9th, 2008 | by Joshua S Hill
One of the main problems with the future of ethanol production is its relationship to corn. For some time now [&hellip
August 26th, 2008 | by Ariel Schwartz
Could cyanobacteria eventually become a more popular biofuel than corn, sugarcane, or even algae? Quite possibly. According to Science Daily, [&hellip
