For a brief statement on ethanol, see the editorial in the most
recent BioScience (2006. 56(11):875) by David Pimentel and Tad
Patzek. Bottom line: "Growing crops to provide fuel squanders
resources; better options to reduce our dependence on oil are
available."
-W2
On Dec 14, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Vinson Doyle wrote:
> There is an interesting debate going on in Florida surrounding
> biofuels.
>> The Florida Native Plant Society is opposing an initiative to grow
> Arundo
> donax
> for biofuels due to its invasiveness. Here is the .pdf of their
> policy
> statement.
>http://www.fnps.org/committees/policy/pdfs/> policyarundo_policy_statement1.pdf
>> Vinson
>> On 12/14/06, plant-ed-request At oat.bio.indiana.edu <
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>> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:26:33 -0700
>> From: Greg Harrington <Greg.Harrington At asu.edu>
>> Subject: [Plant-education] Biofuels & Food Security
>> To: <plant-ed At magpie.bio.indiana.edu>
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>>>> I am teaching a general plant bio course called Human Uses of
>> Plants as a
>> capstone course and intend to include food security (handling during
>> harvest/post-harvest, pesticide testing, etc) and biofuels as two
>> topic
>> areas. Can anyone suggst useful government documents or other
>> resources
>> for
>> these topics?
>> With thanks.
>>>> Greg
>> ***************
>> Greg Harrington
>>>> Assistant Professor of Plant Biology
>> Department of Integrated Natural Sciences
>> Arizona State University at the West campus
>>>> CLCC 315E
>> 4701 W Thunderbird Road
>> Glendale, AZ 85306
>> USA
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>> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:03:26 -0600
>> From: Susan Singer <ssinger At carleton.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Plant-education] Biofuels & Food Security
>> To: Greg Harrington <Greg.Harrington At asu.edu>,
>>plant-ed At magpie.bio.indiana.edu>> Message-ID: <6EF068149722AEF0BC7AA056 At SSINGER35737.carleton.edu>
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>>>> For biofuels, I recommend David Tilman's recent Science paper -
>> Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input, high diversity grassland
>> biomass.
>> Science 314: 1598. His group also had an earlier paper this year
>> on the
>> relative energy inputs into corn-based ethanol and biodiesel.
>>>> The Department of Energy has many references on biofuels as this is a
>> current funding initiative. If you're interested in a corn-based
>> ethanol
>> case study in progress, my township (Bridgewater Township) in
>> Minnesota
>> just passed a resolution yesterday to take over our own zoning and
>> planning
>> instead of using county planning and zoning laws. The impetus
>> behind this
>> for our small rural township is the strong push by a firm to build
>> the
>> largest corn-based ethanol plant in the country in our township. The
>> amount
>> of discussion (from rural aesthetics to the lack of sense from an
>> energetic
>> perspective) in a township of 2000 has been unbelievable.
>>>> Best wishes,
>> Susan
>>>> --On Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:26 AM -0700 Greg Harrington
>> <Greg.Harrington At asu.edu> wrote:
>>>> > I am teaching a general plant bio course called Human Uses of
>> Plants as
>> a
>> > capstone course and intend to include food security (handling
>> during
>> > harvest/post-harvest, pesticide testing, etc) and biofuels as
>> two topic
>> > areas. Can anyone suggst useful government documents or other
>> resources
>> > for these topics?
>> > With thanks.
>> >
>> > Greg
>> > ***************
>> > Greg Harrington
>> >
>> > Assistant Professor of Plant Biology
>> > Department of Integrated Natural Sciences
>> > Arizona State University at the West campus
>> >
>> > CLCC 315E
>> > 4701 W Thunderbird Road
>> > Glendale, AZ 85306
>> > USA
>> > Tel: (+1) 602-543-6051
>> > Fax: (+1) 602-543-6073
>> > ***************
>> >
>> >
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>> Susan R. Singer
>> Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences
>> Department of Biology
>> Carleton College
>> Northfield, MN 55057
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