Biofuels – Jan 21

Mexico feeling effects of ethanol boom

Corn soars, Mexico sets price limits
Analysts predict ethanol to power higher grain prices

Mexico caps tortilla price
Sweet dreams (local ethanol with sweet potatoes)

Whither oil? – Jan 21

What happened to the oil boom?
Reality check in a tumbling oil market
Trying to make sense of the new GSCI

Solutions & sustainability – Jan 21

Carbon reduction action groups (CRAGs) in UK
Nobel laureates: sustainability needs more than science
Beyond the green corporation
Tree hugger wants a beautiful wooden house
Latin America takes on urbanization
10 ways to green your community

Cllimate – Jan 21

The “Monbiot challenge” vs social justice
Stephen Hawking warns of climate change
The final verdict from the IPCC

Ending industrialism

We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.

Peak oil – Jan 21

Update from Kenneth Deffeyes
Conoco reserves disappoint analysts
Modern economic theories unable to tackle peak oil, global warming
Rep. Bartlett supports H.R. 6 energy bill

Australian drought – Jan 21

Drought and corporate profit

Australia ponders climate future

Coral study: more Asian monsoons = more severe Aus droughts

Supermarket’s drought action day

Drought drag on economic growth

More: Snakes, floods, and cracking buildings…