Chemistry for a sustainable world

Peaks Island in Casco Bay, off Portland, Maine. Photo by S. R. Shray, used with permission, some rights reserved, 2007
Please check out Treehugger.com for a huge collection of articles, discussion forums, practical tips and wildly utopian but stimulating ideas for helping the environment.
The site also has treehuggertv for video reports (haven’t watched any yet).
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Please see the article (click on the title):

Renewed Effort
Big oil companies are joining the search for the next generation of biofuels
By JESSICA RESNICK-AULT of the Wall Street Journal

Ms. Resnick-Ault provides a discussion of the range of biofuel options as viewed by major oil companies and she reports on their choices, which vary widely. The [...]

I have discussed biofuels, and especially bioethanol from corn, in quite a few posts so far. Some of the discussion has centered on promising (old and new) approaches to biofuels, which I believe include:

Biodiesel from waste (fish oil, cooking oil and other sources)
Ethanol (bioethanol) from agricultural waste (specifically not from food products)
Metabolic engineering [...]

This is going up in honor of Blog Action Day, 10/15/2007.
One site that does a lot to make affiliations of “dissenters” clear is the Global Warming Forum. Here we find opinion, commentary, quotes and graphics on many subjects, including:

The article “Limits of Consensus”, from the journal Science, which addresses the issues that [...]

There are good and bad sides to biofuels, as Jane Goodall points out. I will explore this in detail in a series of articles that express my opinion and cite scientific reports or discussions. First, a bullet-point summary of key points is given below.
Much of the good/bad duality of biofuels has to [...]

It was reported by Timothy Gardner of Reuters that Jane Goodall, one of the world’s best-known scientists, has come out strongly against the planting of biofuel crops in tropical areas because this is typically accompanied by extensive destruction of rain forests.
So, whether it is “corn-to-ethanol” raising your food prices or fast-growing weeds for generation of [...]