grist.org - 29 days ago
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by Tom Philpott Corn harvest in Iowa. Would you like that in your Big Mac, your gas tank, or both?Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS. What do industrially produced meat and corn-based ethanol have in common? Well, they both thrive on the assumption that it’s good idea to devote vast swaths of ...
realclimate.org - 25 days ago
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realclimate.org —
Dear Mr. Levitt, The problem of global warming
is so big that solving it will require creative...
thinking from many disciplines. Economists have much to contribute to this effort, particularly with regard to the question of how various means of ...
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An open letter to Steve Levitt
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Eco-Beat, 10/26
Green Daily —
... Green in a Flash:
Want a greener candy bucket for your little trick or treater?
We might be a little over-dependent on corn in this country.
Yea or Nay? Eye-accentuating, LED eyelashes.
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Fixing the Land Use Component of Climate Policy: The Climate Doesn't Negotiate
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... To ignore a massive source of emissions, such as those from land use change -- which Grist's Tom Philpott writes about here -- is to invite failure, likely with ...
Climate change & agriculture - Nov 3
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Corn-based meat and ethanol: burning the planet to a crisp Tom Philpott, Grist What do industrially produced meat and corn-based ethanol have in common? Well, they both thrive on the assumption that it’s good idea to devote vast swaths of land to an incredibly resource-intensive crop—corn—and then run that crop through an energy-sucking process to create a product of dubious value. And ... they both got tagged as major drivers of climate change this past week. Ethanol took the harder blow of the two, I think. It came wrapped in the Oct. 23 issue of Science. In a concise and ...
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