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GLOBE Foundation of Canada

September 16, 2008

Feature Article

Creating a Global Biofuels Industry will be Difficult

Research report says biofuels could supply up 10 to 15 percent of our energy needs over the next 10-20 years, but reaching those levels will be more challenging than previously thought.

Other News

  • GLOBE-Net Blog
    The GLOBE Foundation, the publisher of GLOBE-Net, believes in the free expression of opinion on matters of importance to the business of the environment. That is why we have added a new feature to our GLOBE-Net web-site - a GLOBE-Net Blog.
  • Nexterra Energy receives huge U.S. endorsement
    Nexterra Energy Corp. has received a multi-million dollar order for a biomass gasification system from Johnson Controls Inc. for a project at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) located in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
  • Environmental Employer of the Year Awards Open
    ECO Canada, the country's leading authority on environmental human resources, is accepting candidate nominations for the 2009 Environmental Employer of the Year Awards.
  • Great Lakes pollution can't be tied to health woes, review finds
    After a six-month study, an independent review panel said a 2007 report that warned nine million people living in the Great Lakes were at risk from contaminated sites in and near the lakes was flawed.
  • Carbon Trading Set to Expand in U.S.
    With a shot at becoming a $1 trillion market in little more than a decade, carbon trading is poised to take a major step forward in the United States.
  • Value found in Old-Growth Forests
    Leaving British Columbia's old-growth forests standing may make more economic sense than cutting them down for timber, especially as the province looks to strategies to cut global warming, a new B.C. study suggests.
  • Victoria's Dockside Green community achieves LEED Platinum certification
    The first phase of Dockside Green, a 1.3-million-square-foot community built on a former brownfield site in the heart of Victoria, has achieved LEED Platinum certification from the Canada Green Building Council.

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