It is well accepted that consumptive water use in ethanol distilleries ranges from 3 to 4 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol, but this is only part of the story.
The accelerated practice of land grabbing—where countries or corporations buy up agricultural land, usually in poor countries—is one of the most troubling responses we've seen to the sharp rise in food prices in late 2007 and early 2008.
What can't Google do? The search engine's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has developed free home energy monitors, an ocean-exploration tool and now software to monitor the world's deforestation.USA Today
