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Yet the real problem with farm fuels, as Searchinger and others have shown, is in the indirect effects on land use: when an acre of land is used to grow fuel instead of food, an extra acre somewhere else is probably going to be converted into farmland to grow food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

It's also true that there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to biofuels. But it's not good uncertainty. Study after study suggests that growing fuel could be a disaster for the planet, while raising global food prices and promoting global food riots. The amount of grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Galway, Ireland. If you want to feel like a luxuriating Lord, try the four-star Ballynahinch Castle Hotel, the former residence of a co-founder of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The 40-room hotel, which is located on a 450-acre estate in Galway, is most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Remote Getaways | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Adirondacks, New York. The historic Sagamore Hotel located on Lake George in New York's Adirondack State Park isn't exactly a get-away-from-it-all kind of place. It's a full-service resort, with golfing, sailing and fishing. But it's located on it's own 70...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Remote Getaways | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

Tucson, Arizona. In Arizona's Sonoran desert, at the foot of the Santa Catalina mountains, is the 80-acre Westward Look Resort. It was a working dude ranch in the 1940s and 50s, and is now an adobe-style hotel offering biking, hiking, horseback riding, tennis and a full-service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Remote Getaways | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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