It's not just the World Bank that's calling foul on the biofuel industry these days (see World Bank says food prices hit by biofuels).

Now a Jamaican musician is hitting the airwaves with a song calling for an end to biofuels, saying the alternative fuel is behind the recent global food crisis.

"The message of hunger and deforestation must be highlighted to the world and the unconcerned so that they stop the madness," said the singer known as Livebroadcast on his website.

A group calling itself the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) chose today, Earth Day, to rain on the climate change parade.

The ICSC cannily chose the day to release the names of 500 “climate realists” who endorsed its Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, which calls on world leaders to “reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)” and Al Gore’s popular movie, An Inconvenient Truth.”

Rich Uncle Pennybags is changing his ways, putting away his coal-fired power plants and investing his Monopoly money in green technology.

Just in time for Earth Day, Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) announced that it would make a more environmentally friendly version of the classic Monopoly board game.

No, it's not being made out of bamboo or bioplastic.

No, the car isn't being replaced with a plug-in electric hybrid.

And no, Mr. Pennybags isn't exchanging his vest for one made out of organic cotton.

It's no longer news that rising commodity costs (such as oil) have been making alternative commodity sources (say, like tar sands) increasingly cost-effective.

But it is news when the reverse happens.

A paper mill in the central Canadian province of Manitoba is no longer accepting paper for recycling because the price of newsprint has dropped so low that it's no longer cost effective to recycle.

Instead, the mill plans to simply cut down trees to make its paper.

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Australia’s orange-bellied parrot is so rare, it’s estimated less than 200 of them can be found in the wild. For years, the governments of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania have worked with conservationists to protect the critically-endangered bird. They’ve found that saving the species may not necessarily be synonymous with saving the environment.

IBM has introduced a 3D online multiplayer game to help teach kids about renewable energy.

Intended for use in and out of classrooms, PowerUp challenges teenagers to help save the planet "Helios" from ecological disaster.

Don't have a market for your technology? Make one. Then franchise.

That's what tiny Xynergy (PINKSHEETS: XYNG) of Carson City, Nevada is planning to do for its hydrogen generator, details of which are vague, but which it touts as "the only one in the world that can turn hydrogen into real power in a cost efficient manner."

The company plans to open a restaurant this summer in Boulder, Colorado using its hydrogen generator as its primary power source. The restaurant is also to feature "revolutionary" refrigeration systems currently in prototype form developed by Xynergy.

If it were a little bigger it might serve as a banana boat.

Cue the Jaws theme.

Just two weeks after introducing the fuel cell company's first commercial product at the Consumer Electronics Show, Power Air (OTC:PWAC) CEO Remy Kozak has made a different kind of announcement.

Stepping down from his executive position "effective immediately," Kozak is to remain with the Livermore-based company until the end of February to ease the transition of power.