Biofuels – March 15
NPR: Biofuel threatening food supplies?
Energy solution is growing on trees in Sweden & N. Europe
Ethanol wrong biofuel option say US experts
Climate policy – March 15
The target wreckers in Labour govt (UK)
Survey: Climate change seen as threat
Swiss issue key climate report
NYT on McKibben: Renewing a call to act against climate change
Kudos to Fox News (for real!)
Climate science – March 15
World may get greener, then wilt, due to warming
Hansen grim on sea level rise
Climate report warns of drought, disease
Sneak preview of big report: Change is ‘already showing up’
Speaking to European Parliament about peak oil
My experiences did not confirm the widely held view that world leaders know about Peak Oil and have secret plans to deal with it. …[The likely explanation] is that few if any world leaders understand this enormous, impending dilemma or have any idea what to do about it.
Food & agriculture – March 15
Linking regional farmers and buyers in Idaho
An experiment in back yard sustainability
Big Food’s lie about feeding the world
Malaysia: Fast food sector bows to ministry’s ad demands
Peak Oil – Mar 14
Markets Don’t Work Anymore
Nigeria: Energy Infrastructure Firestorm
Fuel Lines by Lisa Margonalli (review)
The Amphetamine of the Intellectuals
This second part of “Round in Circles: a review of David C. Korten’s The Great Turning” looks into the intellectual roots of Korten’s proposed solution for the crisis of industrial society. Will a change of political leadership and ideology actually solve our problems, or is something else going on?
Energy, nature and leftism – Mar 14
Monthly Review on ecological catastrophism
Coming to Terms with Nature
Deceitful Solutions To America’s Energy Dependence
EcoSocialism or Barbarism: There is no third way
Climate Policy – Mar 14
How to cut the carbon pie
British Airways green scheme fails to take off
English village spearheads carbon neutral drive
Dimwits: Why ‘green’ lightbulbs aren’t the answer to global warming
MIT panel provides policy blueprint for future use of coal
Leading academics from an interdisciplinary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) panel issued a report today that examines how the world can continue to use coal, an abundant and inexpensive fuel, in a way that mitigates, instead of worsens, the global warming crisis.
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Portland Report
As someone who is familiar with the literature and follows the peak oil story on a daily basis, I can report that the folks on the Portland Peak Oil Task Force have produced a succinct, outstanding report that should be read by every local official everywhere.
Scientists need to confront economists about peak oil
Letter published in Nature from co-founder of Beyond Oil South Australia, responding to recent Thats Oil Folks article.
