The growing emphasis on biofuels has policy makers concerned that devoting land to growing crops for ethanol or biodiesel is leading to a spike in food prices and threatening deforestation. Ricardo Radulovich, director of the Sea Gardens Project at the University of Costa Rica, argues that farming the sea could provide the environmental benefits of biofuel without the downside effects.
Farming seaweed could keep food crops out of gas tanks
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