2009 Headlines

Down to Earth - Minnesota Magazine
Just Asking...David Tilman - MSP Magazine
Farming Strides Toward Sustainability - Science (1/12)
Food crops for biofuels may reap less - Science Daily (1/15)
Biofuel crop yields overestimated - Food Product Design (1/15)
Global feedstock yields are overestimated - Ethanol Producer Mag (1/16)
Sheehan joins UMN Institute on the Environment - Biodiesel Mag (1/16)
Sheehan joins Institute on the Environment - Ethanol Producer Mag (1/16)
Institute announces partnership with climate change NGO - MN Daily (1/26)
University professor to be featured on NewsHour segment - MN Daily (1/28)
Iowa: Corn and Climate - Climate Central (1/28)
Biofuels interview with Todd Reubold - Everything Green Radio (1/31)
Biofuels more harmful to humans than petrol/diesel - The Guardian (2/2)
U study: Corn ethanol no better than gas - Star Tribune (2/2)
Cellulosic Ethanol May Slow Climate Change - Science Daily (2/3)
Is ethanol really all it’s cracked up to be? - MN Daily (2/3)
U of M Ethanol Study - WCCO-AM (2/3)
U study: Corn ethanol no better than gas - Rochester Post-Bulletin (2/3)
Cellulosic ethanol scores high - UM News (2/3)
U study: Corn ethanol no better than gas - KARE-11 (2/3)
Cellulosic ethanol gets boost from new research - Biofuel Review (2/3)
Ethanol study raises questions - INFORUM (2/4)
New Study Tallies Corn Ethanol Costs - NYTimes.com (2/5)
Biofuels at the U: From crops to your car - MN Daily (2/9)
New study praises corn as source for ethanol - Star Tribune (2/9)
Biofuels boom could fuel rainforest destruction - Stanford News (2/17)
Corn Ethanol: A Health Warning - MIT Technology Review (2/17)
UM research fuels growth in biofuels - Duluth News Tribune (2/23)
Challenges of corn ethanol make sugar attractive - Daily Comet (2/23)
UMD Global Great Lakes Project selected - BusinessNorth.com (3/4)
UMD Program Receives Financial Boost - KBJR-TV (3/4)
Good mix: Corn plants and ethanol plants - Morris Sun Tribune (3/6)
EPA tests the “green” value of ethanol - Minnesota Public Radio (3/9)
Student group gets $50,000 boost - MN Daily (3/22)
U of M awards $4.85M for energy projects - MSP Business Journal (3/23)
U of M Funds Energy Projects - Twin Cities Business (3/23)
Minnesota tests nation’s first wind-to-battery storage - MN Daily (3/31)
Research Fuels Growth In Biofuels - The Chief Engineer (4/2)
Cities write sustainability into public policy - Pioneer Press (4/5)
Growing Role for New Media - Yale Forum on Climate Change/Media (4/6)
IREE awards $4.85 million in large grants - Wis. Bioenergy Initiative (4/9)
Pond full of scum produces tank full of cheap diesel - Star Tribune (4/13)
Biodiversity decline a threat - Mankato Free Press (4/17)
Adding fuel to fire - Financial Chronicle (4/20)
Good Question: Conservation - Is It Working? - WCCO-TV (4/22)
Wind power: Tunnel vision at U - Star Tribune (5/1)
House powered entirely by sun - Minnesota Daily (5/4)
Students Building House Powered Entirely by Sun - FOX News (5/5)
Biofuels Get Big Spending Boost - Science (5/5)
U of M Students Team Sprint To Finish Solar House - WCCO-TV (5/9)
Algae project removes toxins, produces biomass - Biomass Mag (5/12)
As nanotechnology hits the marketplace, safety is a growing issue - MinnPost.com (5/14)
U.S. can benefit from coal, biomass fuels - Biomass Mag (5/20)
Evolutionary Processes In Species Coexistence And Diversity Revealed - Science Daily (5/20)
Evolutionary processes in species coexistence - Science Centric (5/22)
Ethanol: On Beyond Corn - Cattle Network (5/27)
Consortium wins $93 million NOAA climate institute - UMD Newsdesk (5/28)
The End of Plenty - National Geographic
Incentives giving solar projects a bright boost - Star Tribune (6/4)
The fastest car under the sun - Star Tribune (6/8)
U Solar Vehicle Project sees a sunny future - MN Daily (6/9)
Are Fuel Cells Key to Solar Thermal Technology? - Greentech Media (6/16)
Trophy hunting hurts big cat populations - Minnesota Public Radio (6/17)
Old systems stall wind power progress - St. Cloud Times (6/22)
Biofuel Showdown: Should Domestic Ethanol Producers Pay for Deforestation Abroad? - Scientific American (6/25)
Nanotechnology: Revolution & pollution - Bloomington Alternative (6/28)
Information from deep in Lake Superior - Duluth News Tribune (6/28)
Winners and losers emerge in climate bill - KSTP-TV (6/29)
Lion prides form to win turf wars - BBC News (6/29)
Students build solar house for international competition - Minnesota Public Radio (6/30)
From the Sewage Plant, The Promise of Biofuel - Yale Environ. 360 (7/1)
Carbon Big Foot - Newsweek (7/7)
Biomass challenge: Balancing supply with demand - Agri News (7/7)
U of M Competes In First Solar Decathlon - WCCO News (7/9)
Beneficial Biofuels: Experts Reach Consensus - Science Daily (7/16)
Pond scum finally gets some respect as oil resource - Star Tribune (7/16)
Consensus Position on “Beneficial Biofuels” - Green Car Congress (7/19)
The wisdom of crowds - Nature (7/30)
2007 legal opinion is a threat to imperiled species - USA Today (8/3)
Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol’s Bubble - Miller-McCune (8/6)
Cows, Congress and climate change - Pioneer Press (8/13)
Biocrude: algae-produced gas possible alternative to fossil fuels - Finance and Commerce (8/21)
Interest grows in turning algae into motor fuel - Star Tribune (8/24)
U of M researchers developing high-oil content corn - Agri News (8/25)
Senate Ag Committee examines biofuel’s future - Brownfield (8/28)
Algae-produced gas a possible alternative to fossil fuels - The Daily Reporter (8/28)
Siouxland senators look to grow ethanol industry - KTIV Channel 4 (9/1)
Pond Scum Turning Raw Sewage into Biofuel - Earthbeat Radio (9/1)
Study makes dire prediction for MN forests - Minnesota Public Radio (9/15)
Solar-powered house is headed to national contest - Star Tribune (9/15)
Gender-Bending Fish Widespread In U.S. - National Public Radio (9/16)
Chasing the sun: U of M enters energy decathlon - MinnPost (9/17)
Biodiesel refinery in Isanti is ready to rev - Star Tribune (9/29)
Reconciling Clean Energy and Conservation - The New York Times (10/1)
A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth - Yale Environment 360 (10/1)
Another Inconvenient Truth - Scientific American (10/2)
In Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels - Michigan Tech News (10/2)
The Other Inconvenient Truth - Yale Environment 360 (10/5)
Is sustainable agriculture possible? - EarthSky (10/5)
U collaborates with National Park Service - Minnesota Daily (10/13)
University of Minnesota gets $8M grant to study wind - Twin Cities Business Journal (10/15)
U gets funding for wind-energy research - MinnPost (10/15)
U of M receives $8 million for wind energy research - Minnesota Public Radio (10/16)
U of M places fifth overall in Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon - UMNews (10/16)
Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger? - The New York Times (10/26)
U of M spin-out wins $2.2M federal grant - Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal (10/26)
Smart Grid Technologies of Tomorrow Get DOE Funding - Smart Grid News (10/26)
BioCee Inc. wins big DOE grant - Star Tribune (10/26)
U of M researchers receive grant to use bacteria for biofuels - Minnesota Public Radio (10/27)
DOE funds extreme research projects - Mother Nature Network (10/27)
New Form of Solar Energy: Direct Solar Fuel - Greentech Media (10/28)
Learning Green Home Cleaning at the U of M - Fox 9 News (10/28)
ARPA-E – are its energy projects crazy or revolutionary? - Christian Science Monitor (11/2)
U of M piling up stimulus funds with $211M so far - MinnPost (11/4)
Geothermal grants heat up in Minnesota - MinnPost (11/4)
Global Warming's Evil Twin: Agricultural Land Use - Change.org (11/6)
Thinking small is BioCee's big idea - Star Tribune (11/15)
Population rise sparks hunt for new energy - Emirates Business (11/15)
Experts gather in St. Paul for renewable energy conference - Minnesota Public Radio (11/17)
What Is the Right Number to Combat Climate Change? - Scientific American (11/30)
How Can Humanity Avoid or Reverse the Dangers Posed by a Warming Climate? - Scientific American (11/30)
Greenhouse Gas Pumped to Boost Clean Energy - Discovery News (12/29)
Race is on for $2 million in green energy grant money - Minnesota Public Radio (12/18)
Carbon: from pollutant to potential resource - The Ecologist (12/17)
Copenhagen climate change conference enters its final days - Minnesota Public Radio (12/17)
Why Is Everybody Getting So Upset About Soil? - The New Republic (12/14)
Planning to use more renewable energy - Agri News (12/10)
Breathing easier about plant biodiversity - MinnPost (12/4)
Bugs engineered to make biofuels - Living on Earth (12/3)

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