YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1203592815_0']={”text”:”greenhouse gas”,”weight”:1.33306,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/class/other/other"],”category”:["OTHER"]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1203592815_1']={”text”:”greenhouse gases”,”weight”:1.61348,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/class/other/other"],”category”:["OTHER"]};The NYT had a great article about how Scientists have figured out a way to turn CO2 into gasoline. They would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, put it through a chemical process, and create gasoline. This sounds like the cure for our greenhouse gas and energy problem, right? Wrong, [...]

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YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet=YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet||{};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1202730019_0']={”text”:”greenhouse gas emissions”,”weight”:2.32751,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/abstract/other"],”category”:["OTHER"]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1202730019_1']={”text”:”greenhouse gases”,”weight”:1.13929,”type”:["shortcuts:/us/class/other/other"],”category”:["OTHER"]};YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet['lw_1202730019_2']={”text”:”fight greenhouse gases”,”weight”:3.0652,”type”:["shortcuts:/concept"],”category”:["CONCEPT"]};Just as I suspected, Biofuels aren’t the panacea that everyone thought they would be. When you factor in the operations of clearing trees from the land and planting all those biofuels, you get an increase greenhouse gas emissions rather than reductions.
The destruction of natural ecosystems — whether rain forest [...]

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I live in a semi-rural area of NJ with lots of trees, open space, and great neighbors. My wife has gotten into gardening over the past few years and learned that you can “trade” plants instead of buying them at Lowes and Home Depot. She met this old German couple on the other [...]

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