Last week a groundbreaking ceremony was held for what the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) describes as the nation’s first large scale CCS facility plant.
Yesterday the world’s first standard for sustainably sourced sugarcane production launched in Brazil, the result of collaboration between WWF, Bonsucro, and Coca-Cola.
We have always been a huge fan of Daniela Mercury because of her hard work to entrench cultural sustainability throughout Brazil. Now we can say that Daniela is becoming an ambassador for Brazilians’ advocacy for environmental sustainability, too.
The debate over biofuels is often a heated one. In Indonesia, the thirst for palm oil has led to deforestation and a rise in food crops. Naturally we all have opinions over corn ethanol’s effects here in the United States. I’ve always had the view that biofuels, if sourced sustainably and does not require more [...]
Today we leave for Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. It’s a trip to which we are looking forward immensely. We will be there for Carnival, and decided to book the trip last May. We visited Rio in 2004, and would love to visit again, but we decided to visit Salvador to explore its African heritage–and supposedly [...]
It has been said that the North Korean diplomatic outpost in Uzbekistan has probably the worst diplomatic staff on the face of the earth. The second worst is probably the staff of the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles. Horror stories abound, the most recent of which comes from poor (name withheld to avoid any risk [...]
“It’s a one-off hookie-mookie.” –Patsy Stone, a character on the British sit-com Absolutely Fabulous, explaining why she could not sit down in her unique virgin silkworm saliva outfit. We are always hearing about slick alternative energy solutions in the media. This past week, we have learned that reject watermelons could be a potential feedstock for [...]
We’re all in a tizzy over gasoline, oil reserves, air quality, will there be a GM next month, etc. The discussion over transport fuel brings out hysterics on all sides. (more…)