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Biofuel Mandates - A Farce EPA Can No Longer Ignore

"[IISD's] report estimated it is almost 100 times more efficient and far less costly to raise CAFE standards and increase vehicle emissions requirements than it is to continue blending ethanol into gasoline…"

IISD in the news April 29, 2014

Cattails for Clean Community Waterways

In 2013, the City of Winnipeg and IISD embarked on a project to turn locally harvested cattail (Typha) and native prairie grasses into pellets to burn in a pellet stove located at the Living Prairie Museum, a facility run by the City. This video documents the process of harvesting, processing, pelletizing and burning the plant materials.
Video April 28, 2014

Assessing Green Industrial Policy: The India experience

This report is one in a series that considers the lessons for green industrial policy that can be learned from policies in the renewable energy sector.  The aim of the series is to provide policy-makers with research to support the development of cost-effective, well-targeted policies for the development of green industries.  
Report April 23, 2014

Event to demonstrate local, renewable energy source that also keeps our waterways clean

What if there were a way to reduce the amount of harmful nutrients that enter our urban waterways and eventually Lake Winnipeg, and at the same time create a locally-sourced, renewable, organic source of energy? On Wednesday April 23, 2014, at 9:45 a.m. at the Living Prairie Museum, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), in partnership with the City of Winnipeg, will be hosting an event to demonstrate how pellets of cattails and grasses, sourced from Winnipeg, can be burned to generate clean energy and also improve the health of our city’s waterways.
Press release April 21, 2014