Chevron is known for being one of the biggest multinational fuel organisations in the world, ranked America’s third largest corporation in the Fortune 500 from 2007-2012. Chevron sources traditional energy sources, oil, natural gas and oil sands, as well as renewable geothermal and solar energy. In 2007, Chevron helped to [...]

The Time Lists has released its ‘Top 20 Green Tech Ideas’, and what a list it is. At Decipher CM, we’ve picked our Top 5 favourite futuristic green energies to share with the new breed of technological hippies out there. 1. Biofuels One of the ‘green industries’ best kept secrets [...]

Reuters has reported that a group of 29 Democratic and Republican U.S. lawmakers have plans to attempt to change the tax code so that renewable energy projects (e.g. wind, solar, biofuel) “could qualify for beneficial tax structures” as ”master limited partnerships” (MLPs). In a letter to President Barack Obama seeking the [...]

When she set off for college, we could not have been prouder. It seemed as if it had been just yesterday since we had to plead with her just to do her homework and clean up her room, which most often resembled a Staten Island landfill. My daughter left home [...]

Getting more from your fuel is good for both ecological and financial reasons. Frankly petrol and other fossil fuels have risen substantially in price. In 1990 a litre of petrol in the UK averaged £0.38p whereas in 2012 it is almost £1.38 – a very large increase. With such rises [...]

The already uphill battle to promote renewable energy instead of traditional fossil fuels has become even harder. On Friday, September 14th, the US House of Representatives passed the No More Solyndros Act, effectively halting the Department of Energy’s (DoE) loan guarantee program.  Republicans wrote the bill because, in light of [...]

The biofuels debate continues to rage on, five years after the U.S. biofuels boom took off. A moral dilemma has always been at the heart of the food vs. fuel debate: Can we afford to use corn for ethanol in a starving world? But according to Reuters, farm bankers are [...]

Nestlé, traditionally known for its candy bars and fudge syrup, is wading in to the controversial debate over biofuel targets. The Guardian newspaper reports that the world’s largest food company has joined the UN and development groups, in its calls for the U.S. and EU to change their biofuel targets [...]

It looks like the contentious debate over biofuels is poised to flare up again… German researchers claim to have found evidence that European-produced biodiesel does not meet the sustainability targets claimed by Brussels. Gernot Pehnelt and Christoph Vietze are experts at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. They say eight out [...]

The U.N.’s food agency is ramping up the pressure on the United States. It wants the country to change its biofuel policies because of the possibility of a world food crisis. The agency is warning the importance of growing crops for food, instead of fuel. This year’s drought in the [...]