Counting on African farmers to grow biofuel crops, Italian oil giant Eni is making big promises to help the air and shipping industries get carbon neutral. In a year-long investigation, Pierra Nyaruai and the NGO Transport & Environment spent time with some of the Kenyan farmers recruited to the mission – but who have been left dispirited
Two promising uses of hemp are the manufacturing of “green” biofuels and the building of low-cost and sustainable housing
SAA has successfully flown a Boeing using biofuel. The power source will be more sustainable when it’s processed in South Africa.
A strain of tobacco holds the promise of biofuel for South African Airways’s fleet of planes, but raises issues of feasibility and economic viability.
Fifteen thousand South Africans are dying every year because of an economy based on burning fossil fuels.
Biofuel producers have taken over land around the world that could feed nearly one billion people, says international charity Oxfam.
Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears.
Politicians move to prevent a consumer backlash against biofuels from snowballing into a full-scale petrol shortage.
Developing countries — and the environment — could benefit greatly from new technology that makes fuel and electricity from waste.
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/ 20 October 2010
The debate about biofuel has largely been silent since the advent of the recession but as the economy slowly recovers the talk has begun again.
The same algae that turns a swimming pool green and nasty could one day fuel your bakkie.