Tag Archives : biofuel

Come 2011 Paris Air Show, the world will witness a remarkable advancement in eco-friendly aviation as one of the newest freighter planes from Boeing, the 747-8 Freighter will attempt to make a landmark cross Atlantic flight using only biofuel. This remarkable attempt is expected to raise awareness for the need of eco-friendly fuel for the aviation [...]

Tinkering with the design of nature and adding some clever accessories inside tiny little organisms might not be the brightest idea if you watched those countless Hollywood flicks where genetic engineering (eccentric mad-scientist styled stuff) goes horribly wrong. But then this is real life and with the very real and growing demand for cleaner and [...]

The aviation industry has been trying real hard to green in more ways than just one and to be very honest expecting too much from them at such a fast pace is really unfair in times when every industry has been hit hard by the economic meltdown. But things are looking up already with airline carriers realizing that taking the eco-friendly path could [...]

The international economic crisis could harm relations between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the country’s social movements that expect him to carry out land reform. Organizations like the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), linked to the Catholic Church, allege that much of the resources [...]

The consumer is only as good as the product he or she consumes. In the era of fair trade, the consumer is a product of THE product. A product unites the two sides of ethical business and ethical consumer, and brings out the best and worst in these. The ethical producer or ethical marketer is simply expected to highlight the ethical dimensions and attributes [...]

In early 2008, the price of rice increased by 68 percent in most parts of the world. The phenomenon which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has come to call “a silent tsunami,” became the biggest food crisis faced by mankind for decades. At various points, there had been riots over the high price of food all over the world. [...]

Ubiquitous in the African landscape, sorghum is a grass that is native to Africa and feeds millions of people in the continent. Recently, scientists from Rutgers University have described the genome of the ‘ Sorghum bicolor,’ and say that they have opened up new possibilities by which to exploit the potential of the plant as both food and [...]

In man’s quest for fuel to run his life more efficiently and conveniently, he has gone through many awkward situations just so he does not run out of it. It’s been a maddening quest all along. This panic over Peak Oil, or the alarmist thought that the earth is nearing the complete exhaustion of oil reserves, has made man turn different ways to [...]