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ESA Releases Position Statement on Biofuels Sustainability

On January 10, ESA released a position statement that offers the ecological principles necessary for biofuels to help decrease dependence on fossil fuels and reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global climate change. The Society warns that the current mode of biofuels production will degrade the nation’s natural resources and will keep biofuels from becoming a viable energy option….

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Sputnik and Ecology

Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world�s first artificial satellite. As John Noble Wilford describes in the New York Times (September 25, 2007, page D2), �Climbing out of the terrestrial gravity well, rising above the atmosphere and into orbit, Sputnik crossed the threshold into a new dimension of human experience.

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