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Friday 19 June 2009
Whole Foods VP to Speak at Ecology Center in Capistrano Capistrano Dispatch, CA The vice president of Whole Foods Market is the first speaker for the summer education series at The Ecology Center, a new non-profit in San Juan Capistrano whose mission is to inspire and involve people in the stewardship of southern California's ... |
Water for energy: The bad bet for biofuels San Francisco Chronicle, USA This is the water required to produce the ethanol biofuels needed to drive a car ONE mile, using irrigated corn. This number comes from a recent Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) journal article by R. Dominguez-Faus, Susan E. Powers, ... |
 Straits Times | Crude Oil, Gasoline Tumble on Increasing Motor-Fuel Supplies Bloomberg Gasoline inventories rose 3.39 million barrels to 205 million last week, the biggest increase since January, the Energy Department said on June 17. Total daily demand for fuels is 6 percent lower than a year ago. Crude prices advanced earlier as ... Energy prices tumble, gasoline leads the way The Coming Oil Crisis Oil Prices Drop, Pressures Energy Stocks |
Regulators may OK $10 monthly NV Energy rate hike San Francisco Chronicle, USA State utility regulators are considering letting NV Energy phase in an electricity rate hike that would eventually cost the average Las Vegas-area customer a little more than $10 a month. The Nevada Public Utilities Commission is due next Wednesday to ... NEVADA UTILITIES: NV Energy rate boost curtailed NV Energy May Get Less Than Half of Requested Rate Increase Draft plan would hike NV Energy rates |
University Heights: Scientist-educator to speak on ecology of ... Sun News - cleveland.com, OH UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -- Roy Larick, an area scientist-educator, will speak at the University Heights Senior Adult Network's meeting at 2 pm Wednesday (June 24) at the city library, 13866 Cedar Road. Larick will share his insights about the ecology of the ... |
Nathanael Greene: Will the biofuels industry hang itself in the ... AlterNet, CA By Nathanael Greene, Huffington Post Last week I wrote about the danger of industry-backed changes to the Waxman-Markey climate bill that could, perversely, incentivize deforestation and increase global warming emissions. Comparing the current bill ... |
 Center For American Progress | The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy Reuters By GreenBiz Staff - GreenBiz Staff This report, titled "The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy: How the Economic Stimulus Program and New Legislation Can Boost US Economic Growth and Employment," was produced by the Center for American ... Report: Clean energy bill would produce jobs, boost economy Two reports see jobs boon in spending on clean energy Clean-energy economy growing |
 RTE.ie | Energy prices tumble, gasoline leads the way The Associated Press It's down so sharply that it's really going to be hard for crude or any of the energy commodities to show gains today." Gasoline for July delivery fell Friday by 10.5 cents, more than 5 percent, to settle at $1.9244 a gallon. The plunge in gas futures ... Crude Oil, Gasoline Tumble on Increasing Motor-Fuel Supplies Oil Prices Drop, Pressures Energy Stocks Crude reverses gains, falling for first session in three |
Build an app with the Bing API, win $10000 Ars Technica, MA The grand prize winner in each category (Economy & Ecology) will receive the $10000 cash and a three-year BizSpark membership for eligible startups (includes the $100 Program Offering Fee). The three runners-up will get $3000 cash and a three-year ... |
 New York Times | Turning Human Organic Waste Into Energy New York Times, United States Harvest has licensed a ???dry fermentation??? process developed by Bekon Energy Technology, a German firm that has built a dozen such facilities in Europe and expects to open another 13 this year. The biomass is fed into a concrete, air-tight digester and ... San Jose Closing in on Energy Independence City of San Jose's Organics-to-Energy Biogas Plant Taking Shape |
US Stocks Lower As Decline For Crude Oil Hurts Energy Cos Wall Street Journal By Peter A. McKay and Geoffrey Rogow US stocks pushed lower Friday afternoon as a decline in oil prices sparked broad selling in energy stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recently slid 50 points, or 0.6%, to 8505, with the blue-chip measure on ... |
Fire: Ecology, climate and human activities conspire to set the ... Science News ???There's an emerging need to look at fire at the intersection between biology, ecology and society,??? Bowman said at a teleconference coinciding with the paper's online release. New research suggests that, while fires may burn locally, ... |
Biofuel Could Lighten Jet Fuel's Carbon Footprint Over 80 Percent ScienceBlog.com, CA "Camelina jet fuel exhibits one of the largest greenhouse gas emission reductions of any agricultural feedstock-derived biofuel I've ever seen," he said. "This is the result of the unique attributes of the crop--its low fertilizer requirements, ... |
Ecology Communications, Inc., A Non-Profit 501(c)3 Green ... MarketWatch TUSTIN, Calif., Jun 19, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ecology Communications, a non-profit 501(C)3 organization, was formed since there was an incalculable number of websites on Energy Efficiency all of which were difficult to navigate in order to get daily ... |
Sakhalin Energy CEO To Head Embattled Shell Africa Unit Wall Street Journal LONDON (Dow Jones)--Sakhalin Energy's chief executive, Ian Craig, is to head Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSB.LN) embattled Africa unit, with the incumbent moving to the firm's Australian business, according to an email Friday, as the oil major's ... Shell Mulls Sakhalin JV CEO To Head Africa Op - Source |
 Your Industry News (press release) | US Energy Stocks Rise Despite Valero Losing Refinery Bid Wall Street Journal By Steve Gelsi Energy stocks moved higher Friday, with Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) taking part even after the refiner lost out in its $725 million bid for a big chunk of a Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) refinery in the Netherlands. The NYSE Arca Oil Index gained ... Valero won't acquire Dow's interest in TRN Energy Roundup: Google's Plug-In Vehicle Software, Valero Loses ... Valero loses bid to buy stake in European refinery |
A-Power Energy to sell $40 mln senior convertible notes Reuters June 19 (Reuters) - A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd (APWR.O), a provider of distributed power generation systems in China, said it agreed to sell about $40 million of senior convertible notes, plus warrants, to several institutional investors. ... A-Power Energy Generation Systems shares jump A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd. Announces Pricing of $40 ... A-Power Energy 1Q Profit Falls 45%, Raises Full-Year View |
Farm Interests Use EPA Spending Bill to Fight Climate Regs New York Times, United States amendment (pdf) that would have blocked EPA from measuring "indirect" emissions from land-use changes when calculating the carbon footprint of biofuels. Emerson and many other farm state lawmakers -- most notably Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson ... House panel: EPA can gauge ethanol impact abroad Energy act is lacking EPA Issues Clean Energy Guidebook To Help States Save Money ... |
Reps. Waxman, Peterson Inch Closer to Consensus on Climate Bill New York Times, United States Herseth Sandlin also said Democrats have made progress in efforts to address farm state lawmakers' concerns with a draft US EPA biofuels rule. Ethanol backers are dismayed over EPA's calculations of biofuels greenhouse gas emissions in a May proposal ... Nathanael Greene: Will the biofuels industry hang itself in the ... |
Nigeria: Airport, Kubwa Roads Expansion And Impact On Ecology AllAfrica.com, Washington The age long agitation for the authority to take serious measures to arrest the incessant road carnages witnessed along the ever busy Airport and Outer Northern Express (ONEX) Roads, has at long last found a listening ear from the present ... |
 MiamiHerald.com | Noted Princeton husband-and-wife team wins Kyoto Prize Princeton University, NJ (Photo: Denise Applewhite) Peter Grant is the Class of 1877 Professor Emeritus of Zoology, and Rosemary Grant is a retired senior research scholar, both in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton. In their dogged study of a ... A Princeton couple's evolutionary work on finches is rewarded Couple That Saw Quick Evolution in Darwin's Finches Wins Big Prize Faculty couple wins Japanese Nobel |
City of Seattle halts biodiesel purchases, looks for greener fuel Seattle Post Intelligencer Whether it was cheaper to use the biofuel mix or regular diesel varied, she said, with the fluctuating prices of fuels. King County Metro stopped using canola-based biofuel in May of 2008 because of cost concerns. Most recently Seattle had been using a ... Seattle stops using soy-based biodiesel Seattle cutting back on biodiesel Seattle eyeing different biodiesel |
Piedmont offers watershed ecology summer camp Northeast Georgian, GA Piedmont College will offer River Kids, a two-day watershed ecology summer camp for children in grades 4-8, from 8:30 am-1 pm Monday and Tuesday, June 22-23, at the Martens Botanical Center on the Demorest campus. Certified teachers and resource ... |