Biofuels as a Contact Sport: Essential to a Sustainable Energy Future?

When: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Where: Phillips Hall, street level of Siebens Building

Speaker: John Sheehan

Scientific Program Coordinator for Biofuels and the Global Environment, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota Co-Director, Global Sustainable Bioenergy North American Convention 2010 7:30 p.m. Phillips Hall, street level of Siebens Building

The theme of Global Environment will continue from last month’s presentation. Ever since Jimmy Carter introduced the notion of gasohol to a nation beset by high prices and long lines at the gasoline pump, experts have struggled with the question of whether agriculture should feed the world or fuel the world. This talk will address the direct and indirect consequences of biofuels production on land use around the world, along with other social, political and environmental aspects of biofuels. Common sense perspectives on the controversy over sustainable use of land for food, feed, fiber and fuel production will be presented.

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