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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Global food price spikes- a double-edged sword?
Some folks from the Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment have a new policy piece out in the latest issue of Science exploring the effect of food commodity price spikes on food security for the world’s poor. They point … Continue reading
Researchers develop bacteria that can turn seaweed into ethanol
Beautiful description of the development of a strain of E. coli that can convert sugars in macroalgae (seaweed) into ethanol or other fuels: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6066/273.full
DDGS impacts from expired tax credit for ethanol?
One of several potential impacts of the expired tax credit for making corn ethanol: http://nationalhogfarmer.com/marketing/ethanol-tax-and-tariff-changes-likely-affect-ddgs-value
EPA releases new GHG tracking tool
The EPA has released their GHG tracking tool, and I am pretty impressed. Lots of data, easy to use, and nice graphics. EPA GHG tracking tool
Society double-paying for academic research?
At the risk of getting Paul all riled up, check this op-ed about paid versus open-access publishing for federally-funded research: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss I personally think that we should switch to a model where articles are pay-to-access but the long-toiling grad students … Continue reading
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Cornell colleagues officially respond to Howarth study on fracking
I’ve written before on this topic, and wanted to present the latest peer-reviewed response to the Howarth paper from 2011 that caused quite a stir: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x001g12t2332462p/
Fracking, LCA and commerce clauses and more..
Back from the holidays and catching up on some news and wanted to share a couple of things.. This short update points out how important fracked oil & gas may be in 2012 and going forward: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204464404577112681942517356.html Another chapter in … Continue reading
The road to Durban
An interesting blog post from Dr. Robert Stavins, an environmental economics professor at Harvard, about the history of ‘differentiated responsibilities’ between developed and developing countries in the UNFCCC, and how the COP-17 meeting in Durban may have set the groundwork … Continue reading
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