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February

For Immediate Release

Contact: Corrina Steward

Telephone: +01 (617) 616-5767/+01 (413) 512-0331

Email: csteward@ecoresourceconsulting.com

BBC TV: CORRINA STEWARD REVEALS THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF “CLEAN BIOFUELS”

So-called “clean biofuels” promising to save us from our dependency on fossil fuels and reverse climate change are not living up to their hype, Corrina Steward, environmentalist and consultant for EcoResource Consulting and Coaching, told the BBC News on Saturday, February 16, 2008.

“As an environmentalist, I was excited by the promise of biofuels, but what we discovered is that these ‘clean’ fuels have a couple of dirty, little secrets. When we looked at what’s actually happening in places like Brazil and Indonesia, we found that there are massive human rights violations, including slave labor and child labor,” Steward said.

Steward pointed out that even on the environment, biofuels are not all that their proponents claim they are. The untold story of biofuels is that they are produced in the same way as other industrial agricultural crops, guaranteeing that pesticides, soil erosion and biodiversity loss are a part of the equation. What we are actually getting is “agrofuel”, a not so green product from agribusiness and the fossil fuel industry.

In her latest report “Fueling Disaster: A community food security perspective on agrofuels,” Steward points out that critical food resources like land and water are being siphoned away from communities trying to feed themselves to produce massive quantities of agrofuels to fuel gas guzzling cars in the U.S.

“Fuel shouldn’t be a priority over food,” Steward told the BBC. “We need other solutions. “ Internationally, she said, the solutions rest with sustainable energy initiatives that include diverse farming practices. Communities’ abilities to feed themselves and to generate real, sustainable energy are two of today’s most pressing issues for sustainable development and conservation.

In the U.S., Steward said, cutting our fossil fuel consumption—both through individual behavior and at the policy level—is a smarter choice than repeating the fossil fuel model with destructive agrofuels.

Steward’s interview was part of the BBC’s TV coverage of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences being held in Boston, MA from February 14-18, 2008.

EcoResource Consulting and Coaching is an environmental and sustainable development business, provides consulting and coaching services around the world. EcoResource engages organizations and individuals to innovate through action and world change.

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For more information on this topic, or to schedule an interview with Corrina Steward, call +01 (617) 616-5767 or email csteward@ecoresourceconsulting.com. For information on EcoResources’ services, go to: www.ecoresourceconsulting.com. To download “Fueling Disaster: A community food security perspective on agrofuels,” go to: http://www.foodsecurity.org/intllinks.html. The report is produced by the leading food security and community development organizations in North America, the Community Food Security Coalition and WHY.

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