Mr. Oosterveld's article and title (Collingwood Ethanol by-product is green fertilizer, The Connection, Fri., Mar. 31) misses what corn ethanol is all about.

It is not green. It has, with wheat and soybean ethanol, made food prices all over the world out of reach for the poor.  

You can't make something green from such an energy source. It is laudable that Rotary Clubs wish to raise money for charities, but please get your science right. I haven't found one peer-reviewed scientific journal says that corn ethanol is a source of green energy. The only scientist I can imagine saying ethanol is just fine is the one who works for an ethanol company.

As Mr. Ooterveld reveals in his article, it takes a huge amount of heat and water to make this so-called green product, but let's not forget about all the water, herbicide, pesticide, soil degradation and the fossil-fuel fertilizer that went into making corn in the first place.

Perhaps it's time that we stopped caring that our lawns are so artificially green and started considering that it's about time we create a sustainable world.

I urge Rotary Clubs to embrace ecologically sound ventures and not green-washed ones.