Related Materials
Conference Presentations
All conference presentations are PDF files unless indicated otherwise.
- Issues Facing the Working Lands of Wisconsin
Rod Nilsestuen, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
- Dust Clouds on the Horizon: How to Avoid the Soil-for-Oil Trade-Off (Power Point - PPT 23MB) Please download file to view notes.
Dan Cotter, District Conservationist, Lafayette County; Patrick Murphy, State Resource Conservationist; and Judy Derricks, State Agronomist, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Community-Scale Bio-Energy Projects (PPT)
Jamie Derr, Great Lakes Biofuels
- Keeping Our Working Lands at Work: The Promise of Biofuels
Brett Hulsey, President, Better Environmental Solutions
- Community and Regional Scale Bio-Energy Projects as a Part of a Larger Sustainability Objective (PPT)
Lisa MacKinnon, Policy Director, 1000 Friends of Madison
- Switch Grass as a Fossil Fuel Supplement (PPT)
Kim Zuhlke, Vice President of New Energy Resources, Alliant Energy (also, Alliant Energy Switchgrass Fact Sheet)
Readings
Articles, reports and other materials related to the conference theme (all links are to a PDF unless indicated otherwise). Materials are ordered by most recent publication:
- "Converting CRP Land to Corn: Impacts and Mitigation,"
by Laura Ward Good, Dept. of Soil Science, UW-Madison, 2007
- "Farmers are Putting More Acres in Corn: Ethanol Boom has Them Betting on Supply, Demand,"
by Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, April 2, 2007
- "Corn Can't Solve Our Problem," by David Tilman and Jason Hill
Op-Ed, Washington Post, Sunday, March 25, 2007
- "Under the Influence of Ethanol," by Ted Williams
Fly Rod & Reel Magazine, March 15, 2007
- "Is Ethanol for the Long Haul?," by Matthew L. Wald
Scientific American, January 2007
- "Corn Prices and Ethanol: Are the Markets Flaky-or Working as They Should?," by Tom Still
Wisconsin Technology Network, January 23, 2007 (linked to website)
- "Beyond the Renewable Fuels Standard: The Environmental and Economic Impacts of Increased Grain Ethanol Production in the U.S.,"
World Resources Institute Policy Note, September 2006
- "Last Ethanol Article You'll Ever Need to Read," by John Biondi
Wisconsin Technology Network, August 4, 2006 (linked to website)
- "Bioethanol Needs Biotech Now,"
Nature Biotechnology, July 2006
- "Bonkers about Biofuels," by Stephan Herrera
Nature Biotechnology, July 2006
- "Implementing Biofuels on a Global Scale," by Alain A. Vertès, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa
Nature Biotechnology, July 2006
- "Environmental, Economic, and Energetic Costs and Benefits of Biodiesel and Ethanol Biofuels," by Jason Hill, Erik Nelson, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, and Douglas Tiffany
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 12, 2006
- "Study: Ethanol Won't Solve Energy Problems," by Josef Hebert
USA Today, July 10, 2006 (linked to website)
- "A Comprehensive Energy and Economic Assessment of Biofuels: When 'Green' Is Not Enough," by Sergio Ulgiati
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2001
