Gordon Brown is planning to use a massive expansion of green energy to win back voters angry at spiralling fuel prices.
They will be offered guaranteed prices for generating their own power that could fund loan schemes to pay for energy-saving technology under plans being finalised by ministers.
The plans are expected to be contained in a […]

The biofuels boom is causing a spike in food prices worldwide, hitting developing countries particularly hard, experts say.
Ahead of Earth Day, major oil producers and consumers blamed biofuels for the current global food crisis at the International Energy Forum today in Rome, the AFP news service reported.
That’s because agricultural land on which food crops used […]

These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way - and it’s hurting a lot more people. I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the […]