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New Directions for Shipping • Sea Level Rise necessitates review of existing and future planned Port Development • Reduction in international trade due to peak oil and economic contraction also requires review of port development to prevent technological lock-in • Consequences for energy security: fuel supply risk • Inter-modal shift to railways • Develop in-land shipping wherever possible |
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Hailed as a sustainable way to produce liquid fuel for transport, biofuels made from crops are now drawing flak for ethical reasons and not being as green as promised to be. Is it time to source it from other options?...
Despite Toyota’s image as the world’s greenest automaker, the company that brought us the Prius — totem of the environmentally conscious — has fallen behind in the race for the all-electric car. Mitsubishi Motors started leasing its all-electric vehicle, the iMiEV, in June. Nissan Motor is set to release its electric car, the Leaf, next year. But Toyota does not plan to roll out an all-electric car until 2012. Instead, later this year, it plans to introduce a plug-in electric-gasoline hybrid, and only a few hundred initially.
Sugarcane ethanol: Contributions to climate change mitigation and the environment Do biofuels help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and do they oer new sources of income to farmers, by producing biomass? Are biofuels competing with food, animal feed and contributing to higher food prices? And are biofuels directly or indirectly threatening the environment, biodiversity, causing irreversible or undesirable changes in land use and landscape? is publication aims to set the stage for the discussion about both challenges and concerns of sugarcane ethanol by providing the scientic context, the basic concepts and the approach for understanding the debate on biofuel-related issues. is book largely limits itself to sugarcane ethanol and its contribution to climate change mitigation and the environment. e.nal conclusion is that sugarcane ethanol contributes to mitigation of climate change. e environmental impacts of sugarcane ethanol production are overall positive within certain conditions, as outlined in this publication, For advancing the sustainable sugarcane ethanol production, it is of importance to enhance a process of dialogue in the market place and between interested stakeholders in society.
On two legs and a prayer   Stuck in traffic on an old scooter, Amarnath Tewary, journalist in Patna, was getting late for an appointment.After progressing 100 metres in 20 minutes, a question occurred: why not walk? Two legs could speed up things on the road. And then there was the inviting prospect of shedding a few kilos around his waistline. He discussed it with his wife and daughter.Tewary described how his first walk-to-work day began: it featured a recently purchased pair of Nike joggers, an absent scooter, and a chartbuster from the Mumbai film factories that whistled through his lips. An estimated 25 minutes would transport him across the four-km daily commute to his office at Fraser Road.Four minutes into his new routine, he hit the marketplace and saw things he had not noticed from above the safety of two wheels."There just wasn't the space to walk, no pavements," he said.
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