Funding for government supported biodiesel production has recently made headlines in Canada as the Canadian government plans to invest $72.4 million into Biox, a Canadian run biofuel production company, as part of a $1.5 billion biofuel development plan to help stimulate the alternative fuel industry...

Hybrid, electric, hydrogen or solar-powered cars are, given enough time and investment, likely to become the future form of personal transportation for most urban commuters. The problem is that such forms of energy are urgently required now in order to cut global greenhouse gas emissions and prevent...

A new study by researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) as well as Washington-based non-governmental organization, Save America’s Forests (SAF) has suggested that a rapid spread of new oil and gas concessions is threatening to overrun the Peruvian Amazon. The research discovered...

Britain’s major flag-carrier, British Airways, has recently announced that it plans to source at least some of its fuel supply from excess municipal waste. They announced that there were plans to acquire around 16 million gallons a year of “green airline fuel” from the Somena Waster...

Not merely content with being the up and coming global economic superpower, many in the renewable energy industry have predicted that China could be the next major player in renewables – especially considering the fact that they currently lead the world in the manufacture of solar cells, which...