Zimbabweans Use Text and Web 2.0 to Weather Crisis

"With the crisis in Zimbabwe going from worse to worse, there are still effective ways to help people there get food and survive.The beep-beep of a received text on a mobile phone is now becoming a much-needed...

Possible effects of bad weather on the US biofuel industry

At the moment, the US biofuel industry seems to follow the classic demand/ supply model when it comes to ethanol fuel prices. The supply of corn, the major constituent of ethanol fuel, has been reduced by bad weather...

Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol

Obama Camp Closely Linked With Ethanol, Could this be why he doesn't want to Drill?"When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry’s most...

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos

"Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos By Jenna Wortham June 09, 2008 | 5:37:20 PMCategories: Advertising, Video, Viral, Web/Tech   YouTube videos that show a group of friends...

World Food Crisis Makes Some U.S., Thailand Farmers Rich While You Pay More F...

There has been a lot of media attention on rice and other grain shortages around the globe, with grocery prices soaring everywhere including North America.But for every financial crisis there is usually a silver lining for somebody.In the United States corn farmers seem to be...

Floods cause corn prices to hit record high

Corn prices hit a record high today as a result of the flooding in the Midwest.  "The worst flooding in the Midwest for 15 years sent fresh shocks to global markets and consumers on Monday as corn prices hit...

Monsanto Plans to Boost Food Supply

Is your nation facing skyrocketing food prices, widespread hunger, and an impending state of total chaos and panic? Fear not, citizens! Monsanto is here to alleviate your fears, by doubling your yield of proprietary...

Breakfast with The Brits

Brits throw away 7 million slices of bread, 666,000 eggs, 1.2 million sausages, 260,000 processed cheese slices and more than 1.5 bananas daily.   This raises a very serious question, what are The Brits eating...

Texas Governor Makes Right Call on Ethanol

At last, a prominent politician has called for an end to — or, at a minimum, a temporary halt to — the insanity that surrounds the push for corn ethanol. That word comes, according to a news release ...

The Myth of Human-Caused Global Warming

Earlier today at my blog, I shared news about food rationing in the United States. Upon discovery of that news, I began researching the issues of food supplies and shortages further. While I found several articles offering glimpses into the growing worldwide food crisis, only...

Wow! I Find Myself in Agreement with Environmentalists

Today marks a rare occasion when I find myself in agreement with anything touted by hard-core environmentalists like Lester Brown, Ken Cook and Jonathan Lewis.I find myself in partial agreement with the men from...

Firm Makes Ethanol for Less Than $1 Per Gallon

In post published Jan. 11, I concluded that “I know it when I see it!” and what I see is this: “Corn ethanol is Cornography!” In short, I ranted about the push toward corn-based ethanol — which I dubbed “cornography” — as being offensive to the senses and to...

Ethanol for $1 a Gallon, Without Corn

A biofuel startup in Illinois can make ethanol from just about anything organic for less than $1 per gallon, and it wouldn't interfere with food supplies, company officials said.

I know it when I see it! Corn Ethanol is...

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart used the phrase, “I know it when I see it,” in the opinion he wrote about a landmark 1964 case that decided whether a French film, The Lovers, was an example of pornography.*...

Rising Food Prices Due to Alternative Fuels Push

Smart and energetic people sometimes make costly mistakes. Such is the case with corn farmers, politicians and the push to develop ethanol as an alternative fuel.Working together, corn farmers and politicians have conspired to promote ETHANOL as an alternative fuel, promising...

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