The Sweet Sorghum Initiative (SSi)
‘Sugar is sweet, sweet sorghum is sweeter!’ – Frank A Hilario

Archive for February, 2007

The Inconvenient Fruit

2007 February 28

An Inconvenient Truth: William Dar,
The Filipino As Global Manager

THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH, ITS ORIGIN IS WESTERN.
Al Gore’s film, Our Film, directed by David Guggenheim, has just won the Oscar for ‘Best Documentary’ as I revise this 26 February 2007, at high noon Manila time. An inconvenient truth is that it is high time we revise everything [...]

Fire & Ice

2007 February 28

On Discovery Sorghum, The Great Climate Crop

The Yankee Dawdle.
Global warming is heating up the thinking of the world about an inconvenient truth: FIRE & ICE. Except that of the Yankees, the Rip Van Winkles of the Millennium.
Remember Washington Irving? You will also remember The Legend Of The Sleepy Yankees a hundred years from [...]

Sugar Is Sweet.

2007 February 8

Sweet Sorghum Is Sweeter

Waterlogged sweet sorghum in the Philippines (courtesy of icrisat)
From faraway India comes what I call the Sweet Sorghum Initiative (SSi), starting with this crop as the source of ethanol. Between a seed of sweet sorghum and a liter of ethanol, there lies many a great untold story. I shall be telling you [...]