Environmentalists Need to Help Fight Bush’s Ethanol Surge
Corn-based ethanol has been at the center of a well-funded misinformation campaign launched and
perpetuated by the Bush Administration.
Food & agriculture – Feb 4
Agrophilia
Vandana Shiva on Food Relocalisation
City Farmer Interview
Fordlandia
Yes – in 10 years we may have no bananas
Limits to Growth co-author says collapse due to climate possible
It is unlikely that oil scarcity will prove capable of triggering a global collapse, according to Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers, co-author of the prophetic 1972 book The Limits to Growth. “The period of high oil prices will give strong stimulus for increased energy efficiency,” he said. However, the rapid increase in emissions of climate gases does have the potential to cause a collapse.
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Home economics, sustainability and the “mommy wars”
We have created not only physical dependencies on cheap energy, but psychological ones, so that no matter how much harm our dependencies do, we now fear to live any other way.
Climate science – Feb 2
Scientists offered cash to dispute IPCC study
Climate report criticized as too optimistic
Report paints doomsday scenario for Sydney
Global warming scenario for SF Bay
Bangladesh plight serves as warning to world
The long consensus on climate change
Climate policy – Feb 2
France to US: sign climate pacts or face tax
Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment
Investment winners & losers of global warming
The week in carbon
How climate change hits India’s poor
Biofuels – Feb 2
NYT: Palm oil may be an eco-nightmare
TOD on palm oil
Indonesia studies oil palm restriction plan
Thousands march over tortilla crisis in Mexico
Business Week: food vs. fuel
WSJ: Ethanol imports are rising
Berkeley to be hub for study of alternate fuel
Oil industry – Feb 2
Shell president says energy abounds
Exxon and Shell see profits rocket
Peak oil – Feb 2
Orlov: Collapse and its discontents
A day in a life without oil
Agriculture meets PO at Soil Association
Farming, supermarkets & the end of cheap oil
Exxon Mobil conference calls
As part of a public relations outreach effort to improve their image on climate change, Exxon Mobil invited a half-dozen or so green-shaded bloggers to a conference call with their Vice President of Public Affairs.
In love with the lusty wind
Interview with wind energy expert Randall Tinkerman.
Water crisis? We’re giving the stuff away
VAST quantities of the state’s most precious resource — pure drinking water — will be siphoned off by a bottled water manufacturer with links to soft drink giant Coca-Cola Amatil, which will pay a paltry $2.40 per million litres for the privilege.
