Viewpoints
Viewpoints features essays and interviews by the Center for a Livable Future’s staff, faculty, fellows and other affiliates. These opinions are opinions—not representations of the Center’s priorities, activities or stances.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
Feeding the World, or What We Talk About When We Talk About Rio+20
The FAO report promotes the idea that we can feed the 7 billion people currently on Earth—but that we need to look ahead to 2050 and aim to feed 9 billion.
Diet, Health & Planetary Boundaries
The Power of Story: Conversations with Philippe Cousteau
Philippe has grown to become one of the leading advocates for the health of aquatic ecosystems.
Food Equity
People Like Us: Food Chain Workers Speak Out
The way our food system dumps on workers is one of its deepest flaws.
Food Systems & Climate Change
Do Farmers Benefit from Biofuels?
Even with government backing, ethanol and biodiesel production has been high risk, leading to failures of ethanol plants.
Food Systems & Climate Change
Biofuels: Innovations Needed
We need to advance the knowledge of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, which could produce liquid fuels and heavy oils from cellulosic materials at competitive prices.
Food Systems & Climate Change
The Cellulose Quandary
We need to advance the knowledge of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, which could produce liquid fuels and heavy oils from cellulosic materials at competitive prices.
Food Systems & Climate Change
Indirect Land Use Change and Biofuels: Real or Hypothetical?
Biofuels that use food crops, particularly corn ethanol, are adding a large extra load of carbon dioxide because of their affects of food prices.
Food Systems & Climate Change
Fossil Energy Alternates: Shale Gas, Oil Shale, and Tar Sands
Some people are saying this era is the end of “peak easy oil.”
Food Systems & Climate Change
Does Ethanol Pollute the Environment … or Does Corn?
How does corn culture cause environmental harm?
Food Systems & Climate Change
An Ethanol Timeline: How We Got Here
Since 1826, ethanol has been of interest to entrepreneurs and agriculturists as a possible alternate fuel.