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Global
Warming Solutions
Sustainable
Alternative Fuels |
 In
response to mounting concerns about global warming and
our increasing dependence on foreign oil, the U.S. is
vigorously promoting the use of biofuels as an alternative
to petroleum use.
Biofuels
may indeed play an important role in reducing our
oil consumption, but many of the environmental and
social impacts of a biofueled world have not been
fully examined or addressed.
In the drive to replace
oil with biofuels, ensuring the sustainability of
biofuels -- from sustainable sourcing and growing
of feedstocks, ensuring the cleanest and most efficient
methods of production, and promoting local production
and distribution -- has not been a high priority for
government or industry.
Instead of simply hoping
that market forces will lead to environmentally and
socially sustainable biofuel production, or waiting
to act until markets have become established, we are
working to ensure from the outset that biofuels do
not create a new set of problems. Policies and incentives
can and should be put in place now to ensure that
emerging biofuels markets provide socially beneficial,
sustainable, reduced pollution fuel.
Latest
News on Biofuels
Palm
Oil as Eco-Nightmare, New York Times,
January 31, 2007
Biofuels:
Green energy or grim reaper?, BBC News,
September 22, 2006
The
Big Green Fuel Lie,
The Independent, March 5, 2007
More
Information on Biofuels
Visit Friends of the
Earth's
Global Biofuels Database
AB
1007, California's state plan to increase the
use of alternative fuels
California's
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Renewable
Energy Action Project, a national grassroots coalition
founded by Bluewater Network, Climate Solutions, and
the Environmental & Energy Study Institute to
create a diverse, yet unified voice of support for
renewable energy development.
The
U.S. Department of Energy's Biofuels Program:
program seeking ways to cost-effectively produce ethanol
and other fuels and chemicals from biomass resources
State
of California Bioenergy Action Plan |
