Reality Info

From the DLC Website, "The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains an author-...

From the Rainforest Action Network website:  Heard all the buzz lately about how biofuels might break our oil addiction? Maybe even halt global warming? We’ll just transfer our addiction from fossi...

The is a great informative site for a wood chip gasification.  Includes significant background from WWII when gasifiers were more common, and also includes updates from the recent FEMA review in te...

Hardin, Garrett.  1968.  The Tragedy of the Commons.  Science, Vol. 162.  6 pp.     Subtitle:  The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.Here...

Meinzen-Dick, R., E. Mwangi, and S. Dohrn.  2006.  Securing the commons.  CGiAR Sys. Prog. Coll. Action and Prop. Rights.  Policy Brief No. 4.  4 pp.    www.capri.cgiar.org        .pdf   A quote: A...

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

Toward a Diverse Energy Landscape Biomassive is a group of concerned individuals discussing ethanol and other fuels derived from biomass.

"...Cellulosic ethanol, in theory, is a much better bet. Most of the plant species suitable for producing this kind of ethanol — like switchgrass, a fast- growing plant found throughout the Great P...

"Senators will try to cut the $5.2 billion in subsidies guaranteed annually to U.S. grain, cotton and soybean growers when they debate the new farm bill, Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin s...

"Backed by the White House, corn-state governors and solid blocks on both sides of Congress’s partisan divide, the politics of biofuels could hardly look sunnier. The economics of the American driv...